Hungarian fighter jets responded to Russian military aircraft near Latvian airspace, demonstrating NATO's solidarity in safeguarding the Baltic region.

Two Hungarian Gripen fighter jets were scrambled on September 25 from Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania as part of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission, NATO Air Command reported on September 25.

The jets intercepted a formation of Russian aircraft—including a Su-30, a Su-35, and three MiG-31s—flying near Latvian airspace.

  • Madison420@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    That’s exactly what it means but in reference to the crew not the planes.

    https://www.etymonline.com/word/scramble

    1580s (intransitive), “make one’s way by clambering, etc., struggle or wriggle along,” also “strive with others or jostle and grasp rudely for a share or for mastery;” a word of obscure origin, perhaps a nasalized variant of scrabble (v.) “to struggle; to scrape quickly.” OED points to dialectal scramb “pull together with the hands,” a variant of scramp, which is probably a nasalized form of scrape.

    https://youtu.be/KoWc_kjblVI