Russia playing war games against UK goading warships until F-35s get involved

F-35s took off from the Prince of Wales to intercept the Russian jets (Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire)

UK fighter jets were forced to intercept an ‘unsafe’ Russian aircraft after it ‘repeatedly approached’ a carrier strike group in the Norwegian sea.

The Russian ‘Bear-F’ jet dropped a large number of sonic devices called sonobuoys near the Prince of Wales aircraft carrier, the Ministry of Defence said.

Two F-35s took off from the Prince of Wales to escort the Russian plane away from the area.

A Ministry of Defence spokesperson said: ‘While operating in the Norwegian Sea on Operation Firecrest, the UK’s Carrier Strike Group was repeatedly approached by a Russian ‘Bear-F’ maritime patrol aircraft.

‘The Bear-F passed at low altitude and unnecessarily close to HMS

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