The duty operations officer at CAOC3 Col. Jan Ove Rygg said the following to a online newspaper over here today:
Rough translation
....a large number of aircraft has flown north of the Finmark coast, continuing south and west in international airspace. Some aircraft has pushed as far south as off the coast of Ireland. Other aircraft are exercising of the coast of Lofoten and Vesteraalen.......
..we can see that the force has elements of strategic bombers, tankers, fighter aircraft and airborne command centers quite like NATO AWACS aircraft. We can see that the force is showing the ability to perform complicated and expensive air operations.
In dialog with the JAOC at the Joint Operational HQ at Stavanger we have had access to more QRA aircraft from Bodų than those usually available to NATO. The cooperation with JAOC, the 132 Airwing at Bodų and the CRCs at Soerreisa and Maageroe has been excellent....
http://vol.no/aktuelt/?F=A&N=8682
Picture taken early yesterday
According to the paper Nordlys, no Russian aircraft was reported off the coast today saturday. They published this image:
