{"id":288238,"date":"2025-09-21T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/nato-intercepts-russian-jets-estonia\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T00:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:00:59","slug":"nato-intercepts-russian-jets-that-violated-estonian-airspace-in-brazen-intrusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=288238","title":{"rendered":"NATO Intercepts Russian Jets That Violated Estonian Airspace in &#8216;Brazen&#8217; Intrusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 19, 2025, NATO intercepted three Russian fighter jets that violated Estonian airspace in what has been described as a \u201cbrazen\u201d intrusion. The Russian MiG-31 fighters remained in Estonian airspace for nearly 12 minutes before Italian F-35s responded, forcing them to retreat. This is the fourth violation of Estonian airspace by <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"182204\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/russia\/\"  >Russia<\/a><\/span> this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fourth violation of Estonian airspace by Russia this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,748,1984,309,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-nato","category-russia","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288239,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288238\/revisions\/288239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}