The incident was explained by a “failure of the navigation system.”
Su-24 Bomber
A Russian army Su-24MR supersonic reconnaissance bomber was in Polish airspace for over a minute without authorization on Tuesday at about 15:00 Kyiv time. navigable part of the Gulf of Gdansk over territorial waters. The maximum depth of the bomber's entry into the Polish air defense zone was 6.5 km, the incident lasted 1 minute and 12 seconds.
The military claims that they conducted surveillance using radar systems and informed the Russian side about the violations. In The killer armies explained the incident as a “failure of the navigation system.” After the intervention of the Russian army navigator, the Su-24MR returned to the territory of the Kaliningrad region.
- Due to Russian missile attacks against Ukraine, Polish aviation often receives orders to take off: this happened during the shelling on the night of February 11, and before that during the attack on the morning of February 1.