The F-16 fighter jet accompanying the Russian planes behaved strangely in the sky. This became clear from the video,
Everything happened over neutral watersBaltic Sea. An F-16 fighter jet belonging to Poland accompanied the Russian air group. At some point, as Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes, the fighter began to perform strange maneuvers.
The F-16 released its landing gear.As the publication explains, in the language of military aviation, such maneuvers mean an order to an intercepted aircraft to land at a specified airfield. However, in this situation this was unlikely to happen.
Another version says that the fighter could notwithstand the speed of the Russian air group. Therefore, he had to resort to such tricks. The fact is that with the release of the chassis, the aircraft is transferred to the take-off and landing configuration. In this state, the F-16 can maintain stability at low speeds.