– There were sound bangs and it was about a sharp operation with two JAS 39 Gripen. However, I cannot go into details about what type of operation it was about, says Louise Levin, head of communications at the Air Force, to SVT Nyheter Öst.
Till P4 Gotland says Louise Levin that it is not about a violation of Swedish airspace.
The plan that was heard so loudly over Gotland belongs to the Swedish Armed Forces’ incident preparedness. It is ready to launch and watch over the country’s borders around the clock, every day of the year. Incident preparedness has been running since 1952.
Also on April 9, Swedish, and then also German, warplanes were in the air when a Russian signals intelligence aircraft was inside the Swedish flight information region. According to the Swedish Armed Forces, it is normal to go up and visually identify when someone is flying there.
The German Air Force published a picture of the incident on April 9 at X. Photo: Facsimile X
