A Swedish Air Force aircraft conducts radar reconnaissance near the borders of the Russian Federation

Brief retelling from RIA II

A Swedish Air Force Gulfstream S102B Korpen aircraft conducts radar reconnaissance over Estonian territory near the Russian border.

The plane took off from the airbase in Linköping, crossed the Baltic Sea, entered Estonian airspace and flew along the borders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with the Russian Federation.

MOSCOW, October 2 - RIA Novosti. A Swedish Air Force Gulfstream S102B Korpen aircraft is conducting radar reconnaissance over Estonian territory near the Russian borders, according to flight data studied by RIA Novosti.

The Gulfstream S102B Korpen aircraft took off from the Swedish Air Force air base in Linköping at about 10.00 Moscow time. The plane then headed east, crossed the Baltic Sea and entered Estonian airspace near the border with Russia. After changing the flight path, heading south, the board flew along the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian borders with the Russian Federation.

At 12.10 Moscow time the plane is moving in the opposite direction, flying over Estonia.

The Swedish Gulfstream regularly makes reconnaissance flights near the Russian borders. The aircraft conducts reconnaissance not only near the western borders of the Russian Federation, but also sometimes flies over the Black Sea near the coast of Crimea.