Call to get tough over airspace
Updated on 10 July 2009
The Government has been urged by MPs to get tough with Moscow over unauthorised incursions by Russian warplanes into the airspace around Britain.
The Commons Defence Committee said that Russian military aircraft had attempted to enter the airspace around the UK without permission on 18 separate days over the past two years.
Although the aircraft did not enter British territorial airspace, under international civil aviation rules the Russians are supposed to notify the authorities of flights which pass through the wider "UK flight information region".
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