It's so relaxed, to the point that its a running joke among neighbour nations.
Source: I'm from denmark, and lived in sweden for 6 years up until 3 years ago, and my father has lots of nordic military contacts.
It's so relaxed, to the point that its a running joke among neighbour nations.
Source: I'm from denmark, and lived in sweden for 6 years up until 3 years ago, and my father has lots of nordic military contacts.
Because?
Some jets flew over that caused no harm to anyone, wasn't probably even seen by any civilians. Is that a reason to retaliate with a show of force - or had they already used diplomatic channels to tell them that this was not allowed?
This sounds like you want to start WW III because someone stepped on your toes at the bar. Sweden perhaps don't think that some other country swinging their dick is a reason to get in to armed aggression.
"One month"! The article says Sweden has proof of intrusion "in October". If they had gathered enough information a month ago, why didn't they issue a diplomatic protest? Or did it take them one month to gather the information?
> The same Sweden was basically sleeping when russian planes contested swedish aerospace
I don't know why it matters, but yeah, that happened once. The QRF has been improved since then. The reason why the Swedish Air Force didn't respond quickly enough was that the defence has been all but dismantled since the 90's due to "peace in our time". Both the Minister of Defence and the Prime Minister said today that Sweden will defend its borders with all means necessary. It seems we've woken up.