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UK MoD denies tabloid reports RAF ‘ready to shoot down’ Russian planes over Iraq<\/a><\/h3>\n
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UK media allegations that RAF pilots in Iraq had been authorized to shoot down Russian fighters in case of imminent threat have prompted a response from Moscow. Britain\u2019s military says there is \u201cno truth\u201d in the reports.<\/div>\n
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The initial report was published by The Daily Star and The Sunday Times. It claimed that an \u201cunidentified source\u201d in the British military told the media that Royal Air Force\u2019s Tornado GR4 involved in Operation Shader in Iraq against Islamic State from now on are going to be armed with ASRAAM (AIM-132) short range air-to-air heat-seeking missiles to be prepared to\u00a0\u201cto shoot down Vladimir Putin\u2019s jets,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0The Sunday Times reports.<\/p>\n

So far, the RAF jets took off armed with\u00a0\u201c500lb satellite-guided bombs only,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0but as the source in British Defense Ministry put it,\u00a0\u201cin the last week the situation has changed. We need to respond accordingly.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

British pilots have been allegedly instructed to avoid contact with Russian aircraft.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first thing a British pilot will do is to try to avoid a situation where an air-to-air attack is likely to occur \u2014 you avoid an area if there is Russian activity,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0an unnamed source from the UK’s Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ) told the Sunday Times.\u00a0\u201cBut if a pilot is fired on or believes he is about to be fired on, he can defend himself. We now have a situation where a single pilot, irrespective of nationality, can have a strategic impact on future events.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNo one knows what the Russians will do next. We don\u2019t know how they will respond if they come into contact with a Western jet,”<\/em>\u00a0the source said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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UK MoD denies tabloid reports RAF ‘ready to shoot down’ Russian planes over Iraq \u00a9 Daily Star \/ The Sunday Times UK media allegations that RAF pilots in Iraq had been authorized to shoot down Russian fighters in case of imminent threat have prompted a response from Moscow. Britain\u2019s military says there is \u201cno truth\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1330,9801,9802,8114,694,776,820,9800,2080],"class_list":["post-13299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-denial","tag-raf","tag-royal-air-force","tag-rt-news","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-uk","tag-uk-ministry-of-defence","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13300,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13299\/revisions\/13300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}