https://twitter.com/cbsMcCormick/status/720318888542507008/photo/1
Posted on 04/13/2016 2:35:01 PM PDT by traumer
This is the dramatic moment two Russian fighter planes buzzed a US warship conducting a routine training mission in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday night.
The Russian Su-24 planes thundered over the USS Donald Cook at a height of just 30ft in what a military official branded the most 'aggressive' incident between Russia and the United States in years.
The 'simulated attack' maneuver saw the jets pass so close to the ocean that they created a 'wake in the water', the defense official said. The shock move came as a Polish helicopter was taking off from the US Destroyer on Tuesday evening.
The maneuver was followed by seven passes by a Russian KA-27 Helix helicopter - designed to take out submarines - taking pictures of the US vessel.
The American warship was conducting air operations about 70 nautical miles from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad when the aircraft flew at an 'unsafe' speed close to the Destroyer.
Two close encounters occurred on Tuesday night in international waters, while another, at an acceptable distance, happened on Sunday. 'This is more aggressive than anything we've seen in some time,' the defense official said, on condition of anonymity.
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“People are saying to shoot them down and start a war and stuff like that.”
Yeah, I hear women say that all the time. Sure.
Well, back before you were born, this happened all the time. As in A LOT. Reagan didn’t shoot them down for flying close.
Ships even rubbed paint.
But so many today really think war is exciting and cool. We would have never made it through the cold war if we shot at a plane that just flew close.
But to the pussified modern USN I’m sure an airshow was horrifying.
https://twitter.com/cbsMcCormick/status/720318888542507008/photo/1
So you are calling the USN pussies because of what you happened to read in the Daily Mail?
it’s a metaphor for panic-driven overreaction
also, Desert Rhino, when did you stop beating your wife?
Oh no, not because of that! The list is quite long. And it goes back to the Tailhook in the early 90s. Before that there were other reasons, but those were truthfully just brotherly squabbling with the lesser sea service
Never did weirdo. And please try to make sense nutball.
A plane goes by and everyone today goes chicken little :)
Then it surely applies to you because I read no posts that were panic driven overreactions except for yours.
You need to get out more. I did not suggest anything except that in the cold war this was no big deal. Happened all the time.
Light ‘em up with the Fire Control radar inside of 2 miles.....there’s not a pilot on ether side would pursue the flyby any closer
CBS Evening News doing a segment on this story at the moment.
Pity the Ruskie didn’t clip his wing on the ship and splash himself.
Macho idiots.
bored games
Cougar and Merlin and Maverick and Goose. Why Russia? We elected Obama so aren’t they our friends now? /s
Used to happen all the time in the cold war.
A chance for pilots from both sides to wave and take pictures.
We are totally head clonking blind to the provocations of NATO done on behalf of the globalist banking Wall St. and City of London ruling class aristocracy who want to complete the job of looting the Russian economy that they started in 1990. Wake the hell up and watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbEu-OLMKLQ
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