Russian Su-27 Fighter Jet Shoots at British RC-135 Plane in the Black Sea, Hits Wrongly or Deliberately Releases Missile?
TRIBUNNEWS.COM – The incident of a Russian fighter jet shooting down a British spy plane in the Black Sea last year. indicated to be an intentional act.
The BBC, on Thursday (14/9/2023) said that the Russian fighter jet was targeting the British plane to be shot down.
The report cited three unnamed Western defense sources with knowledge of the incident.
It is known that the incident occurred on September 29, 2022.
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At that time, there were two Russian Su-27 fighters shadowing the unarmed British Royal Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft.
“After trailing for some time, one of the two Russian Su-27 jets fired a missile in international airspace off the coast of Crimea,” said the then British defense minister, Ben Wallace, several weeks after the incident.
After the incident, Moscow explained to London that the missile launched from the Su-27 which was aimed at the RC-135 was a technical failure.
This was revealed by Ben Wallace in a statement to House of Commons.
However, the latest BBC report states that the RC-135 has apparently intercepted communications between the Su-27 fighter aircraft and the Russian ground control station.
The Russian Su-27 jet that crashed into the United States MQ-9 drone in the Black Sea on Tuesday (14/3/2023). (Vadim Savitsky/Press Office of the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation/TASS)
The wiretapping results showed that there were “ambiguous” orders from the tower to the Su-27.
“You have the target,” the control tower said to the Russian Su-27 pilot, according to one BBC source referring to the results of the intercept.
Not long after the communication occurred, one of the Su-27s fired an ‘air-to-air’ missile at the British reconnaissance aircraft.
According to reports BBCthe missile missed the target.
2023-09-14 10:59:06
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