ISLAMABAD - Belgian Air Force F - 16 fighter jets locked and loaded the adversary Su - 34 fighters after hit scramble.
BAF released the images of intercepted Russian SU-34 and SU-24 fighter aircraft.
In a tweet from its official handle, Belgian Air Force said: After one month of safeguarding the Baltic airspace, the @BeAirForce conducted already 109 sorties totalising 191 flying hours. Our #F16 aircraft and crew were already scrambled 16 times and performed 8 interceptions. Yesterday our pilots encountered a #SU34 and SU-24.
As per reports, the images of the locked-in fighter jets were taken from a thermal imager. There has been no further information from either Belgium or NATO about the reasons behind this detection.
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