{"id":269137,"date":"2023-05-24T07:44:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T07:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269137"},"modified":"2023-05-25T05:46:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T05:46:48","slug":"russia-u-s-mid-air-battle-putins-su-27-jet-intercepts-american-bombers-violating-border-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269137","title":{"rendered":"Russia-U.S. &#8216;Mid-Air Battle&#8217;: Putin&#8217;s Su-27 jet intercepts American bombers violating border | Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hindustan Times \u2013 May 24, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jtT0Oqxdakk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jtT0Oqxdakk\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>B-1s Deploy to Europe for NATO Deterrence, Immediately Met by Russian Fighter<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chris Gordon \u2013 Air and Space Forces May 23, 2023<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Four U.S. Air Force bombers are deploying to Europe as part of a reassurance mission for America\u2019s NATO allies. It did not take long for Russia to take note.<\/p>\n<p>Two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airandspaceforces.com\/weapons-platforms\/b-1\/\">B-1B Lancer<\/a>s \u201cwere operating in international airspace in the Baltic Sea region alongside NATO allies and partners during their theater arrival\u201d when the U.S. bombers had an \u201cunplanned interaction with foreign fighter aircraft,\u201d a spokesperson for U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) told Air &amp; Space Forces Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1622013\">Russian Ministry of Defense said<\/a> an Su-27 Flanker was dispatched to monitor the American bombers. A spokesperson for U.S. European Command (EUCOM) said the B-1s \u201cwere interacted with safely and professionally by Russian aircraft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two B-1s landed at RAF Fairford, U.K., where they will be joined by two more B-1s on May 25 to fill out the rest of the Bomber Task Force mission, designed to support \u201cNATO deterrence initiatives,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usafe.af.mil\/News\/Press-Releases\/Display\/Article\/3404358\/bomber-task-force-supersonic-bombers-return-to-europe\/\">according to a USAFE press release<\/a> issued May 23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airandspaceforces.com\/b-1-deploy-europe-nato-russian-fighter\/\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest incident involving NATO jets violating its airspace, Russia scrambled fighters to intercept two U.S. bombers approaching its border over the Baltic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":269140,"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":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269137","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=269137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269141,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269137\/revisions\/269141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}