{"id":602069,"date":"2026-05-24T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602069\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:46:08","slug":"raf-jet-carrying-john-healey-has-signal-jammed-near-russia-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602069\/","title":{"rendered":"RAF jet carrying John Healey has signal jammed near Russia border"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is not known if Healey was purposely targeted, but the newspaper reported that the flight’s path was visible on aircraft tracking websites.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Defence has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n

During his visit to Estonia, Healey spoke to UK service members taking part in a Nato military exercise near the Russian border.<\/p>\n

In the separate incident last month, a Russian Su-35 fighter approached a Rivet Joint surveillance aircraft, getting close enough to trigger its emergency systems, disabling its autopilot.<\/p>\n

And a Su-27 jet also carried out six passes in front of the RAF plane, getting as close as six metres (19ft) from its nose.<\/p>\n

Healey had praised the “outstanding professionalism” of the RAF crew during “unacceptable” Russian flybys, which the MoD said was the most dangerous Russian action since 2022, when a “rogue” pilot fired a missile at a Rivet Joint over the Black Sea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2024, an RAF plane carrying then-Defence Secretary Grant Shapps<\/a> had its GPS signal jammed while flying close to Russian territory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is not known if Healey was purposely targeted, but the newspaper reported that the flight’s path was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-602069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}