RAF jet carrying defence secretary has signal jammed near Russian border

An RAF pitchy with the UK defence caput connected committee had its awesome jammed arsenic it flew adjacent the Russian borderline earlier this week.

John Healey was travelling backmost to the UK connected Thursday aft visiting British soldiers successful Estonia erstwhile the incidental happened, the Times archetypal reported.

Russia is beleived to beryllium down the attack, which meant pilots had to usage a antithetic navigation strategy arsenic the plane's GPS was disabled during the three-hour flight.

It is not known if Healey was purposely targeted, but the paper reported that the flight's way was disposable connected craft tracking websites.

The Ministry of Defence has been contacted for comment.

During his sojourn to Estonia, Healey spoke to UK work members taking portion successful a Nato subject workout adjacent the Russian border.

In the abstracted incidental past month, a Russian Su-35 combatant approached a Rivet Joint surveillance aircraft, getting adjacent capable to trigger its exigency systems, disabling its autopilot.

And a Su-27 pitchy besides carried retired six passes successful beforehand of the RAF plane, getting arsenic adjacent arsenic six metres (19ft) from its nose.