A RUSSIAN fighter jet tried to shoot down a British spy plane off the coast of Ukraine carrying 30 crew members.
The pilot of the Su-27 fighter jet fired two missiles at the British jet last September after he thought he had permission.
The first one missed the target rather than malfunctioning as Russia claimed at the time.
At the time Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the unarmed RAF Rivet Joint was on routine patrol in international airspace when it was tailed by two Russian Su-27 fighter jets.
Russia had blamed the missile launch on a “technical malfunction.”
But now three senior Western defence sources have told the BBC that Russian communications intercepted by the RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft reveal that one of the pilots thought he was given the green light to strike the British plane.
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September 14, 2023 at 01:41PM
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