Russian combat jets were scrambled yesterday in response to an attacking “aircraft” from their tiny Baltic neighbor, Lithuania. Apparently the Russians are still using their pre-1940 radar equipment.
“Our fighter approached the trespasser to make it land or leave Russian air space”, the press service said. “A closer examination showed that there was a cloud instead of a light plane and it was coming from the territory of Lithuania,” the Baltic Fleet’s spokesman said.Wasn’t there a Bond movie about this once?