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US Naval Forces Europe-Africa released more footage on Wednesday of a Russian fighter jet coming within 5 feet of a US Navy plane on Monday, Daniel Brown reports on businessinsider.com.
The Navy says a Russian Su-27 intercepting a US Navy EP-3 Aries signals-reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea flew within 5 feet of the American plane. The intercept lasted two hours and 40 minutes, Brown wrote.
"These videos show the Russian Su-27 intercepting the EP-3 from a very close position, at the same altitude, and with an estimated wingtip-to-wingtip horizontal separation as little as five feet at times," US Navy Capt. Bill Ellis, the commander of Task Force 67, said in the Navy statement.
"For the Russian fighter aircraft to fly this close to the US Navy aircraft, especially for extended periods of time, is unsafe."
For more, including videos of the close encounter: https://amp.businessinsider.com/new-videos-russia-military-jet-us-navy-black-sea-2018-1
Meanwhile, the US Navy has started tracking a Russian spy ship off North Carolina, US officials say, days after the vessel departed a port in Trinidad and Tobago, presstv.com reports.
Photo: businessinsider.com; presstv.com; North American Aviation.
A Russian SU-27 just off wing tip of US Navy plane over the Black Sea on Monday.
US Naval Forces Europe-Africa released more footage on Wednesday of a Russian fighter jet coming within 5 feet of a US Navy plane on Monday, Daniel Brown reports on businessinsider.com.
The Navy says a Russian Su-27 intercepting a US Navy EP-3 Aries signals-reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea flew within 5 feet of the American plane. The intercept lasted two hours and 40 minutes, Brown wrote.
"For the Russian fighter aircraft to fly this close to the US Navy aircraft, especially for extended periods of time, is unsafe."
For more, including videos of the close encounter: https://amp.businessinsider.com/new-videos-russia-military-jet-us-navy-black-sea-2018-1
Meanwhile, the US Navy has started tracking a Russian spy ship off North Carolina, US officials say, days after the vessel departed a port in Trinidad and Tobago, presstv.com reports.
The Russian Navy’s Viktor Leonov ship was first spotted steaming in international waters 100 miles south east of Wilmington, North Carolina, CNN reported Monday night, citing two unnamed officials.
The ship is equipped with high-tech surveillance gear and can intercept communications signals, the report added.
The Victor Leonov intelligence ship, seen docked in Havana, Cuba,
has been spotted off the U.S. East Coast. It was also seen off Connecticut in 2017.
One of the topics in my article for Skyline magazine many years ago about the deployment
of US Polaris ICBMs in the Pacific was a Soviet spy ship off the US Navy base on Guam.
Photo: businessinsider.com; presstv.com; North American Aviation.
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