A leaked document from the U.S. military recorded that a British RC-135 reconnaissance plane was nearly shot down by a Russian Su-27 fighter jet, which has not been disclosed before.
Fox News chief legal correspondent Shannon Bream reports on the classified document leak detailing U.S. secrets on social media and says the DOJ and DOD are investigating the incident.a leaked Pentagon documentThe surveillance plane was flying off the Crimean coast on September 29. Such spy planes are usually used to collect electronic messages, such as radio transmissions.
According to the document, it was nearly taken down by a missile shot by a Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet. Shooting down the British plane could have been momentous enough to bring the United States and its NATO allies into the Russo-Ukrainian War. The Washington Post investigated the document and found a reference to"a near-shoot down of UK RJ." RJ refers to RC-135 reconnaissance planes also known as"Rivet Joints".UK Defense Minister Ben Wallace informed the British Parliament about the confrontation in October, saying that two Russian fighter jets intercepted the RC-135 and flew"recklessly."
While Wallace added that a Russian jet"released a missile" at the time, he did not disclose that the confrontation was nearly a shootdown. Wallace chalked up the missile launch to a"technical malfunction."
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