article_snippet.sent: A map showing the how jets were launched from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland yesterday, shortly after HMS Argyll was deployed to monitor a Russian destroyer and two other ships as two other ships passed through the English Channel .
article_snippet.sent: Just a few hours later, two Russian long-range Bear bombers, capable of carrying nuclear missiles, hugged British airspace – prompting the RAF to deploy two Typhoon fighter jets.
article_snippet.sent: It later emerged that the Russians had actually been at the Typhoons’ base at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland when the warplanes were scrambled.
article_snippet.sent: Two Typhoon jets from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland, pictured in 2012, to escort the Russian planes .
article_snippet.sent: The Russian aircraft are believed to be 'Bear' bombers that were first shadowed by Norwegian air force jets before The Russian aircraft approached British airspace (stock image)
article_snippet.sent: October 2014 - RAF Typhoons intercepted a Russian Bear aircraft over the North Sea and Russian warships pass through the Channel escorted by the Navy .
article_snippet.sent: Jets are scrambled by the RAF and allies in Germany, Portugal and Turkey after the 'unusual' spike in activity, which saw two giant Tu-95 Bear H bombers fly close to Britain .
article_snippet.sent: January 2015 - Typhoons were dispatched from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland and RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to intercept two Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear missiles as two Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear missiles as they flew south of Bournemouth flew south of Bournemouth .
article_snippet.sent: February 19, 2015 - Two RAF Typhoon jets scrambled from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire Lincolnshire to escort two Russian bombers in international airspace off the coast of Cornwall.
article_snippet.sent: An RAF spokesman said the two Bear bombers, which flew off the north-east coast of Scotland hours later, were escorted away.
article_snippet.sent: In November a four-strong Russian flotilla sailed through the Channel and earlier this year two Bears flew south of Bournemouth.
highlights_snippet.sent: RAF jets escorted two Russian military aircraft close to UK airspace .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The Typhoons were scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland .
  