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| Subject: Plane spotters with £2.99 app expose top secret UK spy plane off Russia: Highly-classified mission involving £650m aircraft is watched by thousands online Mon May 01, 2017 1:25 am | |
| A top-secret British spy plane was tracked using a £2.99 mobile phone app as it flew on a daring mission to eavesdrop on Vladimir Putin’s air defences.
The £650 million RAF aircraft, called Rivet Joint, could be seen at 27,000ft as it tried to gather intelligence about a heavily defended Russian base on the Baltic Sea. A minute-by-minute record of the highly classified mission to study the Kaliningrad naval air base was watched by hundreds of thousands of people on the internet, and details were shared on Twitter. A top-secret British spy plane was tracked using a £2.99 mobile phone app as it flew on a daring mission to eavesdrop on Vladimir Putin’s air defences (Stock photo) Radar pictures on social media suggested the RAF jet flew to within 60 miles of the Russian base at 478 knots, accompanied by American spy planes and F-35A stealth jets. The joint UK-US operation, launched last Tuesday, came at a time of high tension between President Putin and Nato and just days after British troops began manoeuvres in Estonia intended to prevent a Russian invasion. Last night, former Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork warned that websites such as Flightradar24.com and Planefinder.net had made it almost impossible for the RAF to maintain operational secrecy. He said: ‘There’s not much these clever geeks can’t watch and share with the world. The speed of transfer of the information and the ease with which it is shared is remarkable.
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