As NATO allies consider how to respond to recent Russian incursions into their airspace, a prominent member of the German parliament has raised the possibility of shooting down Russian fighter jets over the alliance's territory.

Air force fighter jets from Germany and Sweden were scrambled Sunday to intercept and track a Russian surveillance plane that was flying unidentified over the Baltic Sea, military officials said. Two Swedish Gripen jets and two German Eurofighter jets deployed in international airspace to monitor and photograph the Russian IL-20