{"id":190087,"date":"2019-06-18T07:31:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T07:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190087"},"modified":"2019-06-20T06:14:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T06:14:20","slug":"raf-typhoons-scrambled-to-intercept-russian-fighter-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190087","title":{"rendered":"RAF Typhoons scrambled to intercept Russian fighter jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Dominic Nicolls \u2013 The Telegraph June 17, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_190090\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RAF-Typhoon-and-a-Russian-Su-30.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190090\" class=\"wp-image-190090\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RAF-Typhoon-and-a-Russian-Su-30-768x480.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RAF-Typhoon-and-a-Russian-Su-30-768x480.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RAF-Typhoon-and-a-Russian-Su-30-300x188.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RAF-Typhoon-and-a-Russian-Su-30-1024x640.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RAF-Typhoon-and-a-Russian-Su-30.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-190090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RAF Typhoon and a Russian Su-30. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">RAF jets were scrambled twice over the weekend to intercept Russian fighter aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This weekend\u2019s activity means that the RAF Typhoon fighters, based at \u00c4mari Air Base in Estonia, have made eight intercepts of Russian aircraft since taking over the Baltic Air Policing mission on May 3, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On Friday evening, Typhoons designated as the Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) aircraft intercepted a Russian SU-30 Flanker fighter aircraft that was flying to the north of Estonia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The following day the British planes intercepted another SU-30 and an Ilyushin IL-76 Candid transport aircraft transiting north from Kaliningrad towards Estonian and Finnish airspace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A Typhoon pilot from XI (Fighter) Squadron on duty at the time\u00a0said: \u201cWe scrambled to intercept two contacts that were approaching Estonian airspace from the south. We escorted the two aircraft for 15 minutes as they transited back towards mainland Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWe then handed over responsibility to two Finnish QRA aircraft, which had also been scrambled as the Russian aircraft operated on the airspace boundary between Estonia and Finland.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">During both intercepts, the aircraft were flown at a safe distance and operated in a professional manner throughout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The RAF is deployed on Operation Azotize\u00a0in Estonia in support of the Nato Baltic Air Policing mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Elsewhere in the region 850 British soldiers lead Nato\u2019s Enhanced Forward Presence battlegroup in Estonia and Poland, while nearly 2,000 UK Armed Forces personnel will deploy to the Baltic Sea later this summer to bolster maritime security in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/06\/17\/raf-typhoons-estonia-scramble-intercept-russian-fighters\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing is these intercepts are not occurring anywhere near British airspace. They are taking place right on Russia\u2019s doorstep <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-190087","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\/190087","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=190087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190091,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190087\/revisions\/190091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}