France raised its combat fighters to intercept Russian supersonic Tu-160 bomber.

The incident, according to official data, took place in the middle of last month, while it was known about it, however, there was no official confirmation from the French military command. Literally the day before, this information was indeed confirmed, and, as noted by the French representatives, the combat fighters were taken into the air solely in order to prevent crossing the country's airspace, while there was no real threat from Russian bombers.

Among other things, information resource Avia.pro notes the fact that last week the foreign experts expressed a high degree of superiority of Russian strategic bombers on almost all currently existing combat aircraft of that type.