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Russian jets intercepting an RAF spy plane is 'serious incident'

BBC News · · 107 words
International Security Military Confrontation Russia-NATO Tensions
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4 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Two Russian warplanes "dangerously" intercepted an unarmed RAF spy plane over the Black Sea last month”
CORROBORATED
Multiple independent web search results confirm the Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported that two Russian warplanes dangerously intercepted an unarmed RAF spy plane over the Black Sea.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This list of active Russian Navy ships presents a picture which can never be fully agreed upon in the absence of greater data availability and a consistent standard for which ships are considered oper…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Russian_Navy_sh…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Royal Air Force Lossiemouth or RAF Lossiemouth (IATA: LMO, ICAO: EGQS) is a military airfield located on the western edge of the town of Lossiemouth in Moray, north-east Scotland. Lossiemouth is one o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Lossiemouth
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Storm Shadow is a Franco-British low-observable, long-range air-launched cruise missile developed since 1994 by Matra and British Aerospace, and now manufactured by MBDA. "Storm Shadow" is the wea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Shadow
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“A Russian Su-35 fighter approached the surveillance aircraft - close enough to trigger its emergency systems”
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Multiple sources, including The Aviationist and other web search results, specifically mention that a Russian Su-35 fighter approached the Rivet Joint closely enough to trigger emergency systems and disable autopilot.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russian Knights (Russian: Русские Витязи, romanized: Russkie Vityazi) is an aerobatic demonstration team of the Russian Air Force. Originally formed on April 5, 1991, at the Kubinka Air Base as a …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Knights
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name: Fencer) is a supersonic, all-weather tactical bomber developed in the Soviet Union. The aircraft has a variable-sweep wing, twin engines and a side-by-side seati…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-24
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sukhoi Su-30MKI (NATO reporting name: Flanker-H) is a two-seater, twinjet multirole air superiority fighter developed by Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi and built under licence by India's Hin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-30MKI
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“a Su-27 jet carried out six passes in front of it”
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The claim is explicitly confirmed by the official GOV.UK source and multiple other news reports stating a Su-27 jet conducted six passes in front of the aircraft, coming as close as six meters.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russian Knights (Russian: Русские Витязи, romanized: Russkie Vityazi) is an aerobatic demonstration team of the Russian Air Force. Originally formed on April 5, 1991, at the Kubinka Air Base as a …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Knights
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name: Fencer) is a supersonic, all-weather tactical bomber developed in the Soviet Union. The aircraft has a variable-sweep wing, twin engines and a side-by-side seati…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-24
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sukhoi Su-30MKI (NATO reporting name: Flanker-H) is a two-seater, twinjet multirole air superiority fighter developed by Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi and built under licence by India's Hin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-30MKI
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“The MoD said the Rivet Joint had been conducting a routine international flight to aid in securing Nato's eastern flank”
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The claim is directly verified by the official UK government source (GOV.UK) and corroborated by other news reports stating the flight was routine, in international airspace, and intended to secure NATO's Eastern Flank.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Boeing RC-135 is a family of large reconnaissance aircraft built by Boeing and modified by a number of companies, including General Dynamics, Lockheed, LTV, E-Systems, L3Harris Technologies, and u…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_RC-135
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Royal Air Force Fairford or more simply RAF Fairford (IATA: FFD, ICAO: EGVA) is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. While being an RAF station, Fairford hosts United St…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Fairford
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918 th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force
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