{"id":21490,"date":"2022-10-22T01:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T08:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=21490"},"modified":"2022-10-22T06:59:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T13:59:48","slug":"a-russian-fighter-jet-fired-a-missile-while-shadowing-a-royal-air-force-recon-plane-on-patrol-over-the-black-sea-uk-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/a-russian-fighter-jet-fired-a-missile-while-shadowing-a-royal-air-force-recon-plane-on-patrol-over-the-black-sea-uk-says\/","title":{"rendered":"A Russian fighter jet fired a missile while shadowing a Royal Air Force recon plane on patrol over the Black Sea, UK says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<p>A Russian fighter jet recently released a missile &#8220;in the vicinity&#8221; of a Royal Air Force reconnaissance plane conducting a patrol mission in Eastern Europe, UK Defense Minister Ben Wallace said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The unarmed RC-135W Rivet Joint was in the middle of a routine patrol over the Black Sea on September 29 when two armed Russian Su-27 fighter jets &#8220;interacted&#8221; with the surveillance aircraft, Wallace told lawmakers in London while delivering an update on the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not unusual for aircraft to be shadowed, and this day was no different. During that interaction, however, it transpired that one of the Su-27 aircraft released a missile in the vicinity of the RAF Rivet Joint beyond visual range,&#8221; Wallace said, adding that the interaction lasted about 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The RAF Rivet Joint returned to its base once the patrol finished, Wallace said, and he&#8217;s since communicated his concerns with his Russian counterpart, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, &#8220;in light of this potentially dangerous engagement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russian-fighter-jet-fired-missile-near-royal-air-force-plane-2022-10?utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=topbar\">www.businessinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian fighter jet recently released a missile &#8220;in the vicinity&#8221; of a Royal Air Force reconnaissance plane conducting a patrol mission in Eastern Europe, UK Defense Minister Ben Wallace said Thursday. The unarmed RC-135W Rivet Joint was in the middle of a routine patrol over the Black Sea on September 29 when two armed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/a-russian-fighter-jet-fired-a-missile-while-shadowing-a-royal-air-force-recon-plane-on-patrol-over-the-black-sea-uk-says\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Russian fighter jet fired a missile while shadowing a Royal Air Force recon plane on patrol over the Black Sea, UK says<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-red-horse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/red_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5AC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21498,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21490\/revisions\/21498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}