Because of a bomb alert, the Dublin - Rome flight has been rerun and forced to land under Mirage 2000 and Rafale fighters escorts (because the pilot would have preferred a civilian airport) to the Evreux Airbase (BA 105).
In Europe, at last twenty similar flights have been subject to similar alerts, russian origin being suspected.
Russia's Defense Ministry has released footage of a Mi-28NM attack helicopter firing a small, low-cost cruise missile during combat operations in Ukraine. The missile appears to be either the S8000 Banderol or the closely related Dan-T, two jet-powered weapons that
Russia's state defense conglomerate Rostec has shown a mobile version of its Tsitadel anti-aircraft gun system, with the weapon and its sensors mounted on a truck chassis, the company said. Until now, Tsitadel had been fielded as a stationary system