Anyone who doubts the wisdom of Hungary spending trillions of forints to maintain a fleet of advanced Gripen fighter planes to patrol a country you can fly across in the time it takes to put on a flight suit may still be doubting today, after state media alerted the nation to an incident in which two of the military jets were dispatched on Monday to intercept a passenger plane that briefly strayed into Hungarian airspace without calling in for clearance. The two Gripens were scrambled at approximately 12:15 p.m. and reached the intruding aircraft minutes later, and then flew home. [hirado.hu]
what were they expected to do? blow him out of the sky? it was a show of power…
Maybe Viktor thinks we need the fighter jets to prevent Slovakia or Romania invading Hungarian soil.