Unusual: Foreign fighter jets fly over northern Germany

Created: 05/27/2022, 08:34

By: Elias Bartl

Suddenly there was loud aircraft noise in Hamburg.

Two fighter jets could be seen in the sky.

what happened there?

Hamburg – Around 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning, May 25, 2022, loud aircraft noise can suddenly be heard over Hamburg.

If you look at the sky you can see two small fighter jets.

24hamburg.de asked what the ominous fighter jets over Hamburg were all about.

Bundeswehr aircraft over Hamburg: fighter jet practices over Hamburg

A fighter jet flies at an aviation show.

(Iconic image) © Michael Walczak/DPA

The aircraft are two Alpha Jets flying the Canadian flag.

The Alpha Jet aircraft are fighter-bombers that were developed in cooperation between Germany and France in the early 1970s.

Many Hamburgers who saw the fighter jets in the sky were unsettled and wondered what fighter planes were doing in the middle of the day over a city like Hamburg.

Fighter jet exercise over Hamburg: to see fighter planes in the sky.

The fighter planes took off at around 08:00 a.m. at the Nordholz military airport near Bremerhaven.

When asked, a spokesman for the Bundeswehr Aviation Office explained that the aircraft belong to a company and are regularly used by the German Bundeswehr for exercises.

Today's flights are said to have been an exercise in which the targeting of moving targets in the air with defensive weapons was practiced.

In this case, the aircraft functioned as so-called target display aircraft.