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Russian fighter came within 15 feet of U.S. Air Force jet
CNN ^ | 11:30 AM ET, Fri January 29, 2016 | Barbara Starr and Brad Lendon,

Posted on 01/29/2016 12:40:59 PM PST by BenLurkin

A Russian fighter jet came within 15 feet of a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane over the Black Sea this week in what the Pentagon is calling an "unsafe" incident, U.S. officials say.

"On January 25, 2016, a U.S. RC-135U flying a routine route in international airspace over the Black Sea was intercepted by a Russian Su-27 in an unsafe and unprofessional manner. We are looking into this particular incident," said a statement from Army Lt. Col. Michelle L. Baldanza, a Defense Department spokesperson.

Another U.S. military official told CNN that the Russian jet flew along the right side the U.S. plane then turned away in a maneuver that had an adverse impact on the "controllability of the U.S. aircraft." The official did not know if the Russian aircraft was armed at the time. The official said the incident occurred more than 40 miles from the Russian coast.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: rc135u; russia; su27; usaf

1 posted on 01/29/2016 12:40:59 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

0bama is currently drafting an apology letter to Putin and will see into a court martial of the crew.


2 posted on 01/29/2016 12:42:57 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: BenLurkin

0bama is currently drafting an apology letter to Putin and will see into a court martial of the crew.


3 posted on 01/29/2016 12:43:16 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: BenLurkin

I’d hate to be on the crew of one of these missions, and know that the CiC won’t do anything more than have an underling deliver a statement to the media if you end up dead as a result of this kind of thing.


4 posted on 01/29/2016 12:44:11 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: BenLurkin
15 feet is really, really, close.....


5 posted on 01/29/2016 12:44:22 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: BenLurkin

Turkey would have splashed them.


6 posted on 01/29/2016 12:45:34 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: BenLurkin

unsafe and unprofessional...wow, that will really get the Russians attention...they’ll draft a response right after the entire chain of command and the pilot quit doing vodka shots out of Moldovan strippers navels.


7 posted on 01/29/2016 12:49:46 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: BenLurkin

If you don’t stop this, we’ll write you a letter telling you how angry we are!


8 posted on 01/29/2016 12:58:50 PM PST by dware (Everybody wants to be a patriot, until it's time to do patriot stuff.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
"Turkey would have splashed them."

Unfortunately, Maverick and Goose were not driving a Tomcat this time...


9 posted on 01/29/2016 1:03:41 PM PST by Hatteras
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To: BenLurkin
Last article on this I read said 20 feet. Now it is 15? What next, 7 feet?

But then, this was CNN, not known for honesty.

10 posted on 01/29/2016 1:04:05 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69
"Last article on this I read said 20 feet. Now it is 15?. . . "

The latter article was written .008 seconds after the first and that explains the difference.

11 posted on 01/29/2016 1:12:22 PM PST by inpajamas (Texas Akbar!!!!!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

Didn’t know if the aircraft was armed or not ..????

Really ..???

Have you people ever seen these SU aircraft - if they were armed, wouldn’t you have easily seen the weaponry ..???


12 posted on 01/29/2016 1:39:04 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The Fields are White Unto Harvest")
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To: inpajamas

/snark.........


13 posted on 01/29/2016 1:57:36 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Hatteras

I used to be stationed at Offutt (a long time ago) and probably worked on that very airplane. However, we had several RC-135s and they were a little different from one another and I didn’t the tail number mentioned in the article.

But actually, I thought interception by fighters was normal, SOP. Maybe 15 feet is closer than normal.

Russian planes armed? Of course.


14 posted on 01/29/2016 3:34:25 PM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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