Japan’s air force scrambled fighter aircraft over the weekend to intercept a Russian intelligence plane operating in its northwestern seas.The Japanese government’s geospatial data, roughly traces the flight path of the Russian air force Il-20M reconnaissance aircraft, which was detected in Japan’s air defense identification zone off the west coast of its Hokkaido and Honshu islands on Saturday. The Il-20M is a reconnaissance platform equipped for electronic intelligence collection. It was designed and built by the Russian defense manufacturer Ilyushin as a variant of the Il-18 turboprop airframe.

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