A September confrontation over the Black Sea between a Russian fighter jet and a British spy plane was reportedly more significant than previously described – with the Russian fighter nearly …
A Russian fighter jet nearly shot down an unarmed British reconnaissance plane over the Black Sea in September — a confrontation described in leaked US military documents as more significant than previously known, according to a report Sunday.
That document referred to the incident as a “near-shoot down of UK RJ,” which is a reference to a commonly-used nickname for the British spy plane, the report said. US defense officials declined to comment, the newspaper said, as has been their practice when asked about information from the leaked trove of classified Pentagon documents that recently appeared online.
It also detailed several other encounters between Russian jets and American, British and French aircraft out on surveillance flights between October and February.
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