RAF Typhoon intercepts three Russian jets in newly released footage
This newly-released footage shows the dramatic moment an RAF Typhoon intercepts three Russian jets threatening to cross into NATO territory.
The clip was filmed inside the cockpit of the Typhoon and shows a British RAF pilot responding to the jets in the skies above Europe.
Jake, a pilot from RAF Lossiemouth’s 9 Squadron, in Moray, northeast Scotland, can be heard saying an accident “could lead to an escalation into World War Three” as he becomes embroiled in a duel with the aircraft.
The video was released as part of the Channel 4 documentary Top Guns: Inside the RAF.
The clip was filmed inside the cockpit of the Typhoon and shows a British RAF pilot responding to the jets in the skies above Europe.
Jake, a pilot from RAF Lossiemouth’s 9 Squadron, in Moray, northeast Scotland, can be heard saying an accident “could lead to an escalation into World War Three” as he becomes embroiled in a duel with the aircraft.
The video was released as part of the Channel 4 documentary Top Guns: Inside the RAF.
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00:00 Very quickly, these two fighters start to pitch down.
00:05 Echo Near Zero One, bogeys splitting and reducing speed.
00:11 Flight Level 300, single, 227, climb, standby one.
00:15 It's that uncertainty of what's going through his mind,
00:18 what's his task, what's he willing to do to achieve it.
00:21 Two bogeys directly below me, and one bogey is turning north directly below me.
00:29 I lose sight of them.
00:30 I can't see them under the aeroplane.
00:33 Now I'm starting to worry.
00:36 They'll just slow down for no reason, sometimes I'll speed up for no reason.
00:40 Two bogeys are currently climbing back up.
00:43 It's very difficult to determine where those apps are coming from.
00:52 Is it coming directly down from Putin himself?
00:56 Or am I just trying to endanger my aeroplane because that's what his mindset is?
01:01 I don't know.
01:03 There is a degree of playing mind games.
01:07 But if I make an error, the result can be pretty catastrophic.
01:13 If I get caught up in the moment and accidentally collide with one of these aircraft,
01:19 it could lead to an escalation into World War Three.
01:24 Where your heart is going a million beats per minute.
01:26 Because you've got all those things in the back of your head.
01:28 - Fuck yeah.