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Old 3rd Mar 2022, 20:50
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Unannounced French Incursion into UK airspace?

To lighten the mood.

While idly looking at ADS-B Exchange this afternoon I noticed the highly unusual sight of a Typhoon near me. On investigation Q000002/ZJ950 was pootling along at @260 knots in close proximity to and with little vertical separation from a French Air and Space Force TBM-700 (147) the Typhoon escorted the intruder to mid-channel before opening the taps and turning west to close with ZZ336/TARTAN49 aka BorisOne (ZJ950 vanished from the screen over Portland). The Voyager had transferred from a towline off the Wash did one oval track over the Channel off Dorset/Hampshire before returning to station over the North Sea. The French aircraft had penetrated somewhere east of Plymouth done a loop north of Birmingham and then headed South, the Typhoon had followed the same track from Birmingham.

Any rumours, plausible explanations or actual facts?
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