- UK, US and Swedish aircraft have been deployed to track down the hackers
Britain launched a major operation today to identify Russian military cyberhackers who targeted the UK Defence Secretary’s RAF aircraft.
Just hours after the Kremlin’s Electronic Warfare (EW) experts jammed signals on Grant Shapps‘ jet, the UK and her allies struck back.
This morning, at 8am, a British Rivet Joint surveillance aircraft took off from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, bound for the Baltic.
Its departure came just over an hour after a US military Rivet Joint left its base in Mildenhall, Suffolk, bound for the same airspace.
The high-tech aircraft then spent several hours flying loops close to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, which borders Poland.
