Spanish Fighter Jet Fired a Missile Near Russia Border by Accident

Spanish Fighter Jet Fired a Missile Near Russia Border by Accident
A Spanish Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon accidentally fired a missile while conducting drills in Estonia on Aug. 7, 2018. Pictured: A Eurofighter Typhoon with the Spanish Air Force refuels from a KC-130J Hercules on Aug. 13, 2015, in Spain. Staff Sgt. Vitaliy Rusavskiy/Marine Corps
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A Spanish fighter jet accidentally fired a missile over southeast Estonia, near Russia’s border, on the afternoon of Aug. 7, prompting Estonia’s military to look for the missile—or its remnants—which have yet to be located.

The Estonian Defence Forces said that the fighter jet, the Eurofighter Typhoon from the Spanish Air Force, fired the missile northward—an Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM—around 4 p.m. local time over the Estonian town of Pangodi during a routine training, which took place about 60 miles from the Russian border.
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