Two Danish F16 jet fighters were scrambled Tuesday after a Russian military aircraft flew close to Danish territory in the North Sea, according to dpa. The Russian plane was identified as a bomb plane of the type TU-160, also called Blackjack by NATO, to which Denmark belongs. Both British and Norwegian jet fighters earlier Tuesday monitored the TU-160, a Danish air force spokesman told Danish radio news. Russia has in recent months revived a Cold War-era practice of flying bombers on long-range patrols and the Norwegian Air Force as well as the RAF have on several occasions sent up fighters to observe them.