{"id":983480,"date":"2026-05-25T08:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/983480\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T08:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:30:15","slug":"russia-reportedly-distrupts-signal-of-raf-jet-carrying-uk-defense-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/983480\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia reportedly distrupts signal of RAF jet carrying UK defense minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Royal Air Force jet carrying British Defense Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-891244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Healey<\/a> had its signal jammed after it flew past the Russian border last week, The Times reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Healey was returning from a visit to British soldiers stationed in southeast Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Healey, several political and military advisers, a lieutenant-general, two photographers, and a Times reporter were on board the flight.<\/p>\n<p>The Times added that at the moment, it is unclear whether Healey was deliberately targeted.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Times, the attack disabled the jet\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/consumerism\/article-890008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GPS<\/a> for the remainder of the three-hour return flight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Without shutting down and rebooting the jet completely in order to restore satellite signal, which is impossible to do while in the air, the pilots were forced to rely on \u201crevisionary inertial navigation systems to calculate their location.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The jam reportedly caused parts of the cockpit\u2019s dashboard to malfunction as well.<\/p>\n<p>One of the pilots described the matter to the Times as a rare incident that he hadn\u2019t experienced \u201cin a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, a defense source told the Times that the incident was a \u201creckless\u201d move by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russia<\/a> that had the potential to disrupt a civilian plane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The RAF is \u201cwell prepared to deal with this,\u201d the source added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The interceptions risked a collision in what Healey had described as \u201cdangerous and unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In the first engagement, a Russian Su-35 fighter jet came close enough to the aircraft, triggering its emergency systems and disabling its autopilot, and a Su-27 in a second engagement conducted six passes directly in front of the aircraft\u2019s nose at roughly six meters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to the British Defense Ministry, this was the most serious interaction between Russian and British aircraft since 2022, when a Russian fighter released a missile near an RAF surveillance plane over the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Royal Air Force jet carrying British Defense Secretary John Healey had its signal jammed after it 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