Not really. This is the RF just doing what it routinely does with NATO airspace, just a bit more often in the Baltic now. The Brits' RAF are experts because they spent the Cold War doing intrusion-interception against the USSR.
In the 1960s designed/built a Mach 2 fighter specifically for the job.
I'd say it's routine sabre-rattling. 100% normal Kremlin behaviour, just like submarine/ship intrusions and announcing missile/troop 'forward deployment' etc.
Militarily-meaningless (NATO won't ever intercept as quickly as they could). Just for 'hybrid-warfare'... making news about being stronk.
👍I think you may have hit on a plausible genuinely-significant reason for playing in the Baltic now:
Kaliningrad is pretty much a 'Spiderweb-proof' safe place for what's left of their strategic bombers, because a repeat of that there would allow NATO to be reasonably-credibly accused of complicity.
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Maybe Poland or Lithuania needs to let some trucks pass through the border. You know, modular houses or some such.
Problem solved.
In the 1960s designed/built a Mach 2 fighter specifically for the job.
Militarily-meaningless (NATO won't ever intercept as quickly as they could). Just for 'hybrid-warfare'... making news about being stronk.
Kaliningrad is pretty much a 'Spiderweb-proof' safe place for what's left of their strategic bombers, because a repeat of that there would allow NATO to be reasonably-credibly accused of complicity.