{"id":975020,"date":"2022-02-03T16:49:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T16:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/raf-scrambles-fighter-jets-to-investigate-foreign-jets-for-2nd-day-in-a-row\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T16:49:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T16:49:34","slug":"raf-scrambles-fighter-jets-to-investigate-foreign-jets-for-2nd-day-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/raf-scrambles-fighter-jets-to-investigate-foreign-jets-for-2nd-day-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"RAF scrambles fighter jets to investigate foreign jets for 2nd day in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/RAF-scrambles-fighter-jets-to-investigate-foreign-jets-for-2nd-day-in-a-row.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 3 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> For the second day in a row, Britain&#8217;s Royal Air Force scrambled Typhoon fighter jets on Thursday from a base in Scotland after spotting foreign jets in what officials called an &#8220;area of interest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first on Wednesday occurred a few hours after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would be disastrous.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thursday, the Royal Air Force scrambled Typhoon fighters from a base in Scotland &#8212; after officials said jets were spotted in an &#8220;area of interest.&#8221; Officials did not specify to which country to jets belonged.<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, the RAF scrambled fighters to &#8220;intercept and escort&#8221; four Russian Bear aircraft away from the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Lossiemouth base in Moray is one of two RAF Quick Reaction Alert stations that guard British airspace. RAF Lossiemouth protects Britain&#8217;s northern airspace, and RAF Coningsby in the south.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 3 (UPI) &#8212; For the second day in a row, Britain&#8217;s Royal Air Force scrambled Typhoon fighter jets on Thursday from a base in Scotland after spotting foreign jets in what officials called an &#8220;area of interest.&#8221; The first on Wednesday occurred a few hours after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":975021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}