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Air Force Hornet fighters were unable to scramble in time when Russian aircraft twice breached Finnish airspace last week, the Finnish daily Savon Sanomat claimed on Saturday.

Finland’s Hornets were not ready to make an inspection flight until four hours after the Russian aircraft first strayed 30 kilometres into Finland’s airspace on May 20th, the paper said.

According to the paper, the delay was caused by the jets having made a series of training flights the week before the incursion took place. As a result of the overtime incurred during the exercises, capacity for observation patrols was momentarily reduced, the paper claimed.

JLAmber wrote:Finland actually went to war with Switzerland earlier this year. Nobody knows about it because the two countries' militaries can't find a time when they're both available for a fight, so the conflict has been limited to (civilised) arguments over sausage making and folk costumes