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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nadeem Badshah

GPS jammed on RAF jet carrying UK defence secretary close to Russian border

A military service official salutes beside John Healey as he descends from the front of a Dassault Falcon 900LX in Tallinn airport
John Healey, the defence secretary, disembarks from an RAF jet on a short visit to Tallinn, Estonia. The jet’s signal was jammed on his return to the UK. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

An RAF jet carrying the defence secretary, John Healey, had its signal jammed for the entire three-hour flight after it flew near the Russian border.

Healey had been visiting British soldiers in Estonia and was travelling back to the UK when the electronic attack happened, the Times reported.

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