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hAMDEn - Dakwaan media UK bahawa juruterbang RAF di Iraq telah diberi kuasa untuk menembak jatuh
pejuang Rusia dalam kes ancaman pasti telah mendorong jawapan dari Moscow.
Tentera Britain berkata "tiada kebenaran" dalam laporan.
Laporan
awal telah diterbitkan oleh The Daily Star dan The Sunday Times. Ia mendakwa
bahawa "kata sumber yang tidak dikenali" dalam tentera British
memberitahu media bahawa Tentera Diraja Air Tornado GR4 terlibat dalam Operasi
Peneduh di Iraq terhadap Negara Islam (IS) mulai sekarang akan bersenjata
dengan ASRAAM (AIM-132) jarak dekat udara-ke haba mencari -air peluru berpandu
untuk bersedia "untuk menembak jatuh jet Vladimir Putin," The Sunday
Times melaporkan.
Setakat
ini, jet RAF berlepas bersenjata dengan "£ 500 bom satelit berpandu
sahaja," tetapi sebagai sumber di Kementerian Pertahanan British
meletakkan ia, "pada minggu lepas keadaan telah berubah. Kita perlu bertindak
balas dengan sewajarnya."
Juruterbang
British telah didakwa diarahkan untuk mengelakkan hubungan dengan pesawat
Rusia.
"Perkara
pertama seorang juruterbang British akan lakukan adalah untuk cuba untuk
mengelakkan situasi di mana udara-ke-udara serangan mungkin berlaku - anda
mengelakkan kawasan jika terdapat aktiviti Rusia," sumber yang tidak
dinamakan dari Ibu Pejabat Bersama Tetap di UK ( PJHQ) kepada Sunday Times.
"Tetapi jika seorang juruterbang melepas serangan pada atau percaya ianya
akan dilepaskan, boleh ia mempertahankan dirinya sendiri. Kami kini mempunyai
situasi di mana seorang juruterbang, tanpa mengira bangsa, boleh mempunyai
kesan strategik mengenai peristiwa masa depan."
"Tiada
siapa yang tahu apa yang Rusia akan lakukan seterusnya. Kita tidak tahu
bagaimana mereka akan bertindak balas jika mereka bersentuhan dengan jet Barat,
"kata sumber itu.
Tentera
Udara Rusia tidak menjalankan apa-apa operasi di ruang udara Iraq, jadi dalam
teori interaksi antara pesawat pejuang Rusia dan British keluar daripada
soalan. Namun penjanaan yang isu ini menimbulkan tindak balas tegas dari
kedua-dua Kementerian Luar Rusia dan Kementerian Pertahanan.
UK
MoD denies tabloid reports RAF 'ready to shoot down' Russian planes over IRAQ .
. .
UK
media allegations that RAF pilots in Iraq had been authorized to shoot down
Russian fighters in case of imminent threat have prompted a response from
Moscow. Britain’s military says there is “no truth” in the reports.
The
initial report was published by The Daily Star and The Sunday Times. It claimed
that an “unidentified source” in the British military told the media that Royal
Air Force’s Tornado GR4 involved in Operation Shader in Iraq against Islamic
State from now on are going to be armed with ASRAAM (AIM-132) short range
air-to-air heat-seeking missiles to be prepared to “to shoot down Vladimir
Putin’s jets,” The Sunday Times reports.
So far,
the RAF jets took off armed with “500lb satellite-guided bombs only,” but as
the source in British Defense Ministry put it, “in the last week the situation
has changed. We need to respond accordingly.”
British
pilots have been allegedly instructed to avoid contact with Russian aircraft.
“The
first thing a British pilot will do is to try to avoid a situation where an air-to-air
attack is likely to occur — you avoid an area if there is Russian activity,” an
unnamed source from the UK's Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ) told the
Sunday Times. “But if a pilot is fired on or believes he is about to be fired
on, he can defend himself. We now have a situation where a single pilot,
irrespective of nationality, can have a strategic impact on future events.”
“No one
knows what the Russians will do next. We don’t know how they will respond if
they come into contact with a Western jet," the source said.
The
Russian Air Force is not executing any operations in Iraqi airspace, so in
theory any interaction between Russian and British warplanes is out of the
question. Yet the very raising of the issue provoked a hardline response from
both the Russian Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry.
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Pejabat
Sergey Lavrov mengeluarkan permintaan rasmi kepada Pejabat Luar British,
menuntut penjelasan. Nota diplomatik telah disampaikan oleh Duta Russia ke UK
Aleksandr Yakovenko.
"Kita
bimbang dengan laporan media sejauh mereka merujuk kepada anggota kanan
Kabinet. Kami telah meminta penjelasan Pejabat Luar UK. Pada masa yang sama, hipotesis itu
sendiri daripada konflik antara pesawat British dan Rusia di langit Iraq tidak
boleh difahami. Seperti diketahui, jet Rusia tidak terlibat dalam serangan ke
atas sasaran ISIL di wilayah [Iraq], "kata Duta Rusia memberitahu RIA
Novosti.
Sergey
Lavrov’s office issued an official request to the British Foreign Office,
demanding explanations. The diplomatic note was delivered by Russian Ambassador
to the UK Aleksandr Yakovenko.
“We are
concerned by media reports as far as they refer to senior members of the
Cabinet. We urgently requested the UK Foreign Office's clarifications. At the
same time, the hypothesis itself of a potential conflict between British and
Russian aircraft in the skies over Iraq is incomprehensible. As is known, the
Russian jets are not involved in attacks on ISIL targets on [Iraqi] territory,”
the Russian ambassador told RIA Novosti.
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British
military attache di Moscow juga telah dipanggil ke Kementerian Pertahanan
Rusia, di mana beliau telah diserahkan nota menuntut bahawa dia menjelaskan
sama ada benar bahawa juruterbang British telah diberi perintah "menembak
untuk membunuh" mengenai pesawat Rusia.
Walaupun
jurucakap Kementerian Pertahanan berkata dalam blog berita rasmi mereka:
"Tidak ada kebenaran dalam cerita ini," jawapan kepada kedua-dua
permintaan itu belum selesai.
British
Tornado jet pejuang GR4 yang beroperasi di Iraq telah dikeluarkan lebih
daripada 1/4 daripada satu abad yang lalu, manakala Rusia Sukhoi Su-30SM jet
pejuang memastikan pengiring udara untuk kumpulan serangan di Syria memasuki
perkhidmatan pada abad ke-21 dan satu langkah mendahului para mereka
rakan-rakan British dalam segala hal, termasuk inventori dan pelbagai radar.
"Semua
penerbangan operasi [di Syria] sedang dilakukan dengan pertahanan diaktifkan di
atas kapal [pertempuran radioelectronic] gear," Igor Konashenkov,
jurucakap Kementerian Pertahanan Rusia, berkata pada 3 Oktober Ini bermakna
mengunci ke peluru berpandu di Federation 4 pejuang ++ generasi jet akan
menjadi satu tugasan yang sukar bagi sebuah pesawat British veteran.
The
British military attache in Moscow has also been summoned to the Russian
Defense Ministry, where he was handed a note demanding that he explain whether
it is true that British pilots have been given a “shoot to kill” order
regarding Russian aircraft.
Although
the MoD’s spokesperson said in their official news blog: “There is no truth in this story,”answers
to both requests are pending.
British
Tornado GR4 fighter jets operating in Iraq were manufactured more than a
quarter of a century ago, whereas the Russian Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter jets
ensuring air escort for the assault groups in Syria entered service in the 21st
century and are a step ahead of their British counterparts in every way,
including inventory and radar range.
“All operational flights [in Syria] are being
performed with activated defensive onboard [radioelectronic combat] gear,” Igor Konashenkov, Russia’s Defense
Ministry spokesman, said on October 3. This means that locking on to a missile
on Russian 4++ generation fighter jet would be a tough assignment for a veteran
British aircraft.
