German Air Force Eurofighter planes, involved in the NATO airspace patrol mission over the Baltic Sea, were scrambled because of Russian military planes, the German Air Force said on its X page, Paralel.Az reports citing TASS.

"Today, our rapid response forces were scrambled from the Laage Air Base [in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern federal state - TASSS] and from the Lielvarde airstrip in Latvia because of Russian planes flying without a flight plane and transponder signal," the air force claimed, adding that the German planes escorted Russian Air Force Tu-142 and Su-30 planes over the Baltic.

Usually, Eurofighter planes get scrambled within several minutes to check for a potential threat and to eliminate it, if necessary. However, such mutual checks are mostly routine.