{"id":1873,"date":"2019-01-11T19:36:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T19:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2019-01-11T19:36:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T19:36:59","slug":"russian-military-seeks-permission-to-shoot-down-passenger-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/russian-military-seeks-permission-to-shoot-down-passenger-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Military Seeks Permission to Shoot Down Passenger Planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow; 11 Jan 2019-<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1874\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/russia_military.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/russia_military.jpg 618w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/russia_military-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/>The Russian Defense Ministry has drafted new rules that would grant the military permission to shoot down hijacked passenger jets.<\/p>\n<p>Current legislation contains conflicting clauses both allowing the military to fire at civilian aircraft hijacked by terrorists and banning shooting down planes that violate the Russian border if passengers are on board.<\/p>\n<p>If the Defense Ministry\u2019s rules are approved, the Russian military would be able to shoot down passenger jets that \u201crefuse to obey commands to land,\u201d according to the ministry\u2019s draft regulations that were <a href=\"https:\/\/regulation.gov.ru\/projects#departments=46&amp;StartDateDiscussion=1.6.2018&amp;EndDateDiscussion=11.1.2019&amp;npa=86083\">submitted<\/a> for public debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly, people on the plane will die, but this will prevent a more terrible catastrophe,\u201d Russia\u2019s pro-Kremlin Izvestia daily <a href=\"https:\/\/iz.ru\/818491\/aleksei-ramm-aleksandr-kruglov-bogdan-stepovoi\/kurs-na-porazhenie-samolety-narushiteli-gosgranitcy-razreshat-sbivat\">quoted<\/a> Senator Frants Klintsevich as saying Friday.<\/p>\n<p>themoscowtimes.com\/news\/russian-military-seeks-permission-to-shoot-down-passenger-planes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow; 11 Jan 2019-The Russian Defense Ministry has drafted new rules that would grant the military permission to shoot down hijacked passenger jets. Current legislation contains conflicting clauses both allowing the military to fire at civilian aircraft hijacked by terrorists and banning shooting down planes that violate the Russian border if passengers are on board. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}