{"id":121416,"date":"2015-09-12T06:47:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T06:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=121416"},"modified":"2015-09-14T07:40:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T07:40:36","slug":"britain-scrambles-raf-typhoons-to-intercept-nuclear-capable-russian-supersonic-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=121416","title":{"rendered":"Britain scrambles RAF Typhoons to intercept nuclear-capable Russian supersonic bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Darren Boyle &#8212; Daily Mail Sept 11, 2015<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_121415\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/raf_typhoon_and_tupolev_tu_160_bomber.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/raf_typhoon_and_tupolev_tu_160_bomber.jpg\" alt=\"RAF Typhoon and Tupolev Tu-160 bomber off the coast of Northumbria\" width=\"400\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/raf_typhoon_and_tupolev_tu_160_bomber.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/raf_typhoon_and_tupolev_tu_160_bomber-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-121415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RAF Typhoon and Tupolev Tu-160 bomber off the coast of Northumbria<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The RAF intercepted two Russian long-range supersonic nuclear capable bombers flying off the coast of Northumbria and escorted them away from the UK area of interest.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Ministry of Defence released photographs of one of the Cold War era aircraft being intercepted by the Typhoons which were scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Quick Reaction Alert fighter aircraft are tasked with intercepting any threats to UK airspace at short notice and were refueled by an RAF Voyager aircraft from Brize Norton during the mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to the MOD, the Typhoon pilots closed in on the two Russian aircraft and visually identified them as Tupolev Tu-160 &#8216;Black Jack&#8217; bombers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Russian jets are capable of travelling at twice the speed of sound and delivering up to 16 short-range nuclear missiles or conventional munitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Squadron Leader Jim Calvert of II(AC) Squadron, RAF Lossiemouth flew one of the Typhoons which intercepted the Russian jets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He said: &#8216;Given the Royal Air Force\u2019s enduring commitment to secure the UK\u2019s skies, yesterday\u2019s sortie once again proved Typhoon\u2019s capability to successfully scramble and intercept Russian long-range aviation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;Protecting our skies is especially poignant in this 75th anniversary year of the Battle of Britain. Working together with ground-based radar and air-to-air refuelling aircraft today\u2019s RAF continues to come together as a team to protect our country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Intercepts of Russian aircraft by NATO have increased over the last year amid heightened tensions between the West and Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3231119\/Britain-scrambles-Typhoons-RAF-Lossiemouth-intercept-nuclear-capable-Russian-supersonic-bombers-Scottish-coast.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest in a series of similar intercepts. Are the Russians probing UK air defences for weaknesses? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121419,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121416\/revisions\/121419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}