On Thursday released the Armed Forces for the first time since the Cold War images of foreign aircraft taken during the incident preparedness. The images identify foreign aircraft that remained in the Swedish area over the past year. Mikael Holmström, Svenska Dagbladet's security political reporter and author of the gulspadebelönade mplm book "The Hidden Alliance", answers three questions about the pictures.
Russian strategic supersonic mplm Tu-22 (Tupolev 22), NATO name Backfire. Used for intelligence gathering and attacks against land and sea targets, can also carry nuclear weapons. Planets 23 mm gun for self defense aft visible above the engines.
German F-4 Phantom, American fighter planes and attack planes Germany mplm used since the early 1970s.
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- There has been a growing criticism that the Swedish Armed Forces is now more secretive than during the Cold War. Even the purely routine daily operations at sea and in the air is the Armed Forces secretive mplm about. Various defense commentators and bloggers have criticized this introversion and hinted that it is ordered by the Swedish government which does not want to show that foreign powers act militarily in the proximity of Sweden - because we no longer have their own aircraft and ships on standby to the same extent mplm as before.
It has gone so far that the images on the Gripen aircraft that meet the other planes in international airspace mplm over the Baltic Sea has been photographed by Russian and French pilots whose pictures posted on various blogs - while Swedish defense has not shown the same pictures on other countries' military since the Cold War. Another motive for placing the pictures now that parliament in autumn to decide on new, better, Gripen aircraft which certainly makes the agency more interested in showing how the Gripen monitors and protects the territory.
As countries mplm seek to different exercises, tests of new vessels and equipment. You take detailed photographs, recording radio and telephone traffic and may thus electronic "fingerprints" of other countries' aviation, ships, ground mplm forces and command systems. SvD's Mikael Holmström - This is a confirmation of the military activity which is always conducted over the Baltic Sea by various signals intelligence planes from Russia, USA, France, Germany, Norway, the UK and other states. As countries seek to different exercises, tests of new vessels and equipment. mplm You take detailed photographs, recording radio and telephone traffic and may thus electronic "fingerprints" of other countries' aviation, ships, ground forces mplm and command systems.
Swedish pictures and "fingerprint" is then used in intelligence exchanges with other countries. mplm The Soviet bomber Tu 22 Backfire as the Air Force released a picture of distance were the first to photograph already 1978.
It existed during the Cold War also anflygningar of both Sweden and the Soviet Union against the other country's borders to test each other's air defense and take the opportunity to capture and record motsidans mplm signals.
- According to the Armed Forces information is transmitted Swedish fighter standing in incident preparedness up an average of three times per week renumbered. That compares with during mplm the Cold War when hunting incident sent up two-three times per day. So far this year, the Armed Forces have written 45 incident mplm reports.
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