"You have a goal": New Su-27 attacks against the British aircraft over the Black Sea-BBC

This was reported with reference to the interlocutors in the defense in the BBC edition on September 14. Immediately after the incident, which occurred in September 2022, Moscow explained an attempt to attack a "technical malfunction", and the British allegedly publicly agreed with such an explanation. However, three sources occupying high defense positions are convinced that the official version is very different with reality.

According to the media, on September 29 last year, a British aircraft with a crew of up to 30 people performed a mission of observation. He was in the international airspace over the Black Sea. Two Russian Su-27 fighters approached the aircraft. According to one of the sources, the pilots of the aggressor country received a message from the dispatcher with the words "you have a goal".

One of the hostile pilots perceived the inaccurate formulation as permission to fire and released the air-air rocket. Journalists convey that she was successfully starting, but could not give up the target. That is, the attempt to strike on the British aircraft was false, but did not occur as a result of a malfunction. Western officials are convinced that the foggy formulation of the dispatcher indicates a high degree of unprofessionalism.

Moreover, then a conflict arose between the two Russian fighters - the pilot of another fighter did not accept the word as permission to fire and began to swear on a cooperation. Despite the dispute, the first pilot released another rocket. "We were told that the second rocket just fell from the wing, which means that weapons were either defective or launch was interrupted," the material reads.

Journalists noted that the US military responded to the situation over the Black Sea "sharper" for colleagues from the United Kingdom. As the leakage of the secret documents of the Pentagon showed, intelligence believed that the plane was "almost shot down. " US officials confirmed that the Russian pilot misunderstood the order and fired at the British plane, but "the rocket did not start properly. " One of the unnamed officials described the event as "truly very scary.

" The UK noted that "a large part of the content of" released secret reports of the United States was manipulative or false. The media suggested that the UK Ministry of Defense does not deliberately provide full information about this year for two reasons. First, London may not want to disclose the extent of collecting intelligence in the area. Secondly, the government can avoid escalation of a conflict that can potentially involve NATO member country.

"But this incident once again shows how one mistake and calculation of one person can provoke a broader conflict," the journalists emphasized. The British Defense Ministry noted that the situation with two Russian fighters is a "vivid reminder" of the possible consequences of "barbaric" invasion of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation into the territory of Ukraine.

"Despite the fact that the plane was almost shot down, the royal Air Force continued to perform intelligence flights over the Black Sea, which is a testament to the courage of crews that barely escaped catastrophe. After the incident, these intelligence flights , - summed up in the BBC. We will remind, the Minister of Defense of the UK Ben Volles reported of the "potentially dangerous" incident over the Black Sea, which occurred on September 29.