Posted on 06/04/2014 12:02:35 AM PDT by tcrlaf
A Russian fighter jet buzzed dangerously close to a U.S. military plane in April, a U.S. official said Tuesday, describing the fly-by as "straight out of a movie."
The Russian jet flew within 100 feet of the nose of a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane over the Sea of Okhotsk between Russia and Japan, a Defense Department official said. The fly-by "put the lives of the U.S. crew in jeopardy," the U.S. official said, calling it "one of the most dangerous close passes in decades."
The incident occurred on April 23, the Defense Department official said, when a U.S. Air Force RC-135U aircraft flying on a routine mission over the Sea of Okhotsk was intercepted by a Russian Su-27 Flanker aircraft.
The Russian aircraft turned and "showed its belly" to the U.S. crew so they could see it was armed with missiles, a U.S. military official said Tuesday.
The United States did not originally discuss or reveal the incident publicly because it chose to deal with it privately with Russian officials, the military official said.
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Do you think Obama realizes that this isn't a game, yet?
Or is he still trying to find out which page of "Rules For Radicals" this is covered on?
Bored aren’t they?
So he decided to sober up before flying?
I wonder if the crews on both sides were waving and taking pics, or if something more sinister was going on?
Roosky boredom.
Well, whatever Putin wants Obama will give him.
I think it’s coming right at us and we’re not ready. It will be very bloody
well, I don’t think it went very well in the ‘discussing it privately’ with Russia department, because about 10 days later:
Hey, Obama said yesterday that he has a “business relationship” with Putin.....whatever the HELL THAT means!! BOTH want to bring down America.
I think it’s coming right at us and we’re not ready. It will be very bloody
This is what we get for electing what Bill Clinton call an amateur.
Obama and his bunch are amateurs and worse. That are committed ideological America haters. They really believe the propaganda that they were fed since they were children. Specifically that all the people of all the other countries in the world hate us because we are Imperialistic Bullies.
Well Obama it isn’t that Russians hates us because we are Imperialistic Bullies it is that Russia hates us because they are Imperialistic Bullies and we are getting in the way of them getting what they want.
Obama why don’t you grow up and grow a pair before you get us in to a shooting war with Russia.
In reality, what would congress have done had they been notified? They are incapable of doing anything and this POS in the WH has walked all over congress and the constitution and NO ONE does a damn thing so why would he notify them? He knows they are gutless.
The way things are going, let them and China fight over who gets California. It might not be worth keeping.
Our debt to equity ratio improves if one of them takes California.... that’s for sure.
Russian pilots aren’t pussified like Western ones these days.
If Zero is a Russian agent, would he be doing anything differently?
Everything he does, weakns America.
And he is shown to be Putin’s bitch time after time.
As to this flyby just what does Mr. Flexibility intend to do about it?
Russian pilots suck and can’t hold a candle to US pilots.
Just like muzzies kill women and children.
Russian pilots hot dog knowing we follow civilized rules and stuff like this is their big hurrah.
When SHTF, they only go splash.
Happens all the time. They wave; we wave. No harm, no foul. We do it to them as well. A couple of us on here have flown the rc-135 and can attest. A better question might be, who writes such stupid headlines?
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