“What are these two explosions heard on rue Witten? », asks a user on Facebook. “In Thionville, I heard several detonations,” comments Emir in turn, on the same social network. “I totally thought my boiler had exploded,” says Tony. This question, like Emir and Tony, many people ask themselves in the Thionville sector and its surroundings, passing through Auboué (Meurthe-et-Moselle) and Uckange. Around 1 p.m., this Tuesday, January 21, two successive loud “booms” were heard. And that obviously surprised everyone.
It was an “interception by French Rafales of two Russian planes, above the Baltic Sea, not complying with international air regulations”, explains the General Staff of the Army on its X account French.
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The two hunters would then have broken the sound barrier. A common phenomenon that occurs when a plane approaches 1,200 km/h.
On January 15, already in the Baltic Sea, a French Navy plane was targeted by the Russian army. The aircraft, an Atlantique 2 contracted for NATO, was carrying out a surveillance flight when it was the victim of a “jamming attempt” as well as a “designation by a fire control radar”.
