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And in other news besides the PM resigning - Russia fires on RAF

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 The Lemming 20 Oct 2022

Just read that Russia fired close to an unarmed RAF aircraft at the end of September. An accident?

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/russian-fighter-jets-fired-missile-113600074.html

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 Toby_W 20 Oct 2022
In reply to The Lemming:

Rather an extreme way to get your children off their devices at the dinner table!

Cheers

Toby

 NathanP 20 Oct 2022
In reply to The Lemming:

Your thread title is a bit of an overstatement - 'fires on' means targeted and fired at an RAF aircraft. All that is reported is that a missile was released in the general area - we don't know if the rocket motor fired, if the missile was powered up or even if it was an anti-aircraft missile. For all we know it could have fallen off because the pylon had rusted through.

 balmybaldwin 20 Oct 2022
In reply to Garethza:

2 cables in a week sounds a bit fishy

 Toerag 20 Oct 2022
In reply to balmybaldwin:

It would appear to be a screw-up. I received this from BT's inter-operator notification service at 10:32 this morning:-

"The root cause of failure has been confirmed and is due to a sub-sea cable planned works carried out by a third-party provider. "  A subsequent update says they're looking to see if some undamaged fibres are useable.

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 Toerag 20 Oct 2022
In reply to Toerag:

Update from BT - they now say it was '3rd party damage' not '3rd party planned works'. so it could be a fishing boat or 'something else'.

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