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Hungarian Gripens Scrambled Once Again due to Unidentified Aircraft

Hungary Today 2022.05.04.

An unidentified aircraft was detected on radar in the late evening hours of May 3, prompting the Hungarian Armed Forces Air Defense Service to be alerted and launch a Gripen fighter jet from the Air Defense Readiness Service, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

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Radar equipment detected the signal around 10 p.m. near the border in the eastern part of Hungary. No aircraft was found, but the plane stayed and patrolled the area for a while before returning to the Kecskemét base, MTI reports.

Hungarian Gripens Scrambled Due to Bomb Threat on Serbian Aircraft
Hungarian Gripens Scrambled Due to Bomb Threat on Serbian Aircraft

The jets were alerted for a second time on Friday afternoon for a similar reason when a Moscow-Belgrade flight reported a bomb threat.Continue reading

As we reported before, since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Hungarian Gripen fighter jets have had to be alerted several times: on March 14, the Hungarian Defense Forces were alerted to a Serbian-registered aircraft on the Belgrade-Moscow route. The Belgrade control tower informed the civil air traffic control that the aircraft was carrying a bomb, and the Hungarian fighters were called in because of another bomb threat. Later, air defense was alerted to a bomb threat on a civilian aircraft flying under the Serbian flag from Belgrade to St. Petersburg.

Featured photo illustration by Sándor Ujvári/MTI 

 


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