The captain of the ship must have been asleep at the switch along with the crew of the Hawkeye AWAC’s plane.
To let a potential enemy aircraft get within a mile is dangerous if not stupid.
I hope that the navy wakes up and tightens its airspace control or one morning we’re going to wake up to the news that one of our carriers has been attacked by air launched antiship missiles.
“The captain of the ship must have been asleep at the switch along with the crew of the Hawkeye AWAC’s plane.
To let a potential enemy aircraft get within a mile is dangerous if not stupid”
They watched it from as far out as possible. I can guarantee that the Russian jets didn’t suddenly appear a mile away. And even watching them and intercepting them, they can legally pass that close and even closer.
Fighters just watch and are prepared to respond to any hostile moves.
But they aren’t exactly prevented from flying very close by and looking at things in international waters. We do the same thing. It has been this way for decades.