Spanish Foreign Ministry says jet remains under safe control, employing alternate navigation protocols while en route to Lithuania.
Spanish Foreign Ministry says jet remains under safe control, employing alternate navigation protocols while en route to Lithuania.
Why the fuck is a defense minister onboard a fighter jet in the current geopolitical climate? Pilot personnel can gather and relay any pertinent information to boots on the ground. Defense decision-makers should not be anywhere near anything related to geopolitical targeting.
These people are acting like Russia isn’t hostile to their politics and currently engaged in an offensive war at their allies’ borders. WTF?
Pretty sure she wasn’t on a fighter jet, that’s just a random image they used in the article.
Yeah, that would be really crowded in a 2-seater …
Apologies for assuming the jet in the image was where the defense minster was… but the concern remains valid. Why is she flying over Kaliningrad, in a multi-person jet, while Russia is involved in an offensive war at the borders of NATO territory? Is this not just serving up defensive leadership to a hostile force?
Here is a video that covers the previous incident where basically the same thing happened to Ursula von der Leyen’s flight.
It’s from an aviation perspective but it clears up a lot of misconception. Basically … this (the GPS jamming) isn’t really that big of a deal.
Maybe. But I’m sure people have taken the security concerns into account. Maybe they just don’t think that Russia would dare or they trust their ECM kit. I’m not sure. But a lot of important people are flying around there and they all think it’s fine.