I don’t care if they saw them coming from the moon.
Letting them get a mile away is ridiculous. A missile fired that close could hit the ship in seconds.
“Letting them get a mile away is ridiculous. A missile fired that close could hit the ship in seconds.”
The current Law of the Sea permits the aircraft to make such close approaches. The U.S. Navy does so as well when on reconnaisance. The difference is in the protocols used to avoid incidents, mid-air collisions, and accidents.