{"id":1182,"date":"2025-11-23T18:55:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/russias-unique-tu-134a-4-black-pearl-intercepted-over-the-baltic\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T18:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:55:21","slug":"russias-unique-tu-134a-4-black-pearl-intercepted-over-the-baltic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/russias-unique-tu-134a-4-black-pearl-intercepted-over-the-baltic\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Unique Tu-134A-4 \u201cBlack Pearl\u201d Intercepted Over the Baltic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tu134-Black-Pearl-Baltic-1-460x259.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tu-134 Black Pearl Intercepted\" \/>For the first time in five years, Italian Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons intercepted the rare aircraft, along with Su-30SM2s, as part of the Baltic Air Policing mission. A Tupolev Tu-134UBL \u2013 or Tu-134A-4 as some Russian military aviation analysts have pointed out \u2013 was among at least four Russian military aircraft intercepted recently by Italian [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in five years, Italian Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons intercepted the rare aircraft, along with Su-30SM2s, as part of the Baltic Air Policing mission. A Tupolev Tu-134UBL \u2013 or Tu-134A-4 as some Russian military aviation analysts have pointed out \u2013 was among at least four Russian military aircraft intercepted recently by Italian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}