Posted on 04/13/2016 12:57:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Two Russian warplanes with no visible weaponry flew simulated attack passes near a U.S. guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday, a U.S. official said, describing it as one of the most aggressive interactions in recent memory.
The repeated flights by the Sukhoi SU-24 warplanes, which also flew near the ship a day earlier, were so close they created wake in the water, with 11 passes, the official said.
A Russian KA-27 Helix helicopter also made seven passes around the USS Donald Cook, taking pictures. The nearest Russian territory was about 70 nautical miles away in its enclave of Kaliningrad, which sits between Lithuania and Poland.
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Hostile act.....Blow them out of the air
Blast them out of the sky ... with 0b0la as president?
Not sure that’s a good idea.
Paint ‘em with a fire-control radar. That’ll give ‘em something to think about.
Cool picture, too.
Their pilots get to fly? No fair.
Probably give it back to them in kind...sometimes pilots just do things on their own that aren't very smart. This may be the case here, maybe not.
I suspect this administration might send a very strongly worded and angry letter to the Kremlin that Putin can use to wipe his a$$ with.
Yep. That little light goes on in the cockpit and the message gets across.
In a short time our military will have no way to fight them when they hit us. May be that way right now? obama re-arming isis and taliban with state of the art weapons....you know he is re-arming our people.
“They were so close they created wake in the water”
and low too?
Reagan was president during the Cold War. Russians tested us, we tested them. Nobody got hurt.
Obama hasn’t surrendered yet?
Since when does low equal close?
Getting on the fighter freq and saying “missile away!” increases the pucker factor a little, too.
in the water?? There’s a lot of references to wake in flight...but the references don’t appear to be water related...
Yes and an easy way to mine a harbor is with one press release
Is he already in Hiroshima ?
I helped make a ZSU-23 radar simulator during my time at Pt. Mugu. We would sometimes briefly aim it at F-18s visiting, always wondered if it popped up on their threat warning sets.
The Russians are confident that Obama will either ignore or greatly downplay any significance of their ‘simulated attack’ maneuvers. Any ‘real’ American president would have retaliated on that day. They’re playing ‘Chicken’ with a Lame Duck.
And the ELINT bird lurking 'way off there by the horizon gets an earful.
Jus' sayin' ...
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