Flights security

Russia to suggest NATO having trust measures for secure flights above Baltic Sea

Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has ordered beginning of work on a system of trust measures to raise security of the flights above the Baltic Sea, the ministry’s press service told TASS on Saturday.

The experts will offer certain organizational and technical measures, including use of transponders by the Russian Aerospace Force, so that air control services in the Baltic region could identify Russian aircraft during their flights above the Baltic Sea’s neutral waters.

If the NATO countries agree their aircraft would make flights close to the Russian border with turned on transponders, experts of the Russian defense ministry could discuss further details of this suggestion. The ministry now considers putting on agenda of the Russia-NATO Council due on July 13 the issue of providing for security of flights above the Baltic Sea.