[GregB]

Has obama surrendered yet!!!

[Cicero]

This reminds me of that Chinese sub that came up in the middle of the Pacific fleet.

It seems obvious that they are testing our resolve, and taking note of our reluctance to respond.

How is it “not threatening” to let what amounts to an enemy jet get within a thousand years of an aircraft carrier?

[FlyVet]

If I was that pilot, I think I’d be a little stressed out about those orders. His instrument panel must have told him he was all lit up.

[Gay State Conservative]

They'd never do that with an Israeli Naval vessel.They never would have done it to *our* ships under W.Or even Clinton.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[bunkerhill7]

Iranian navy plane flies near USS Eisenhower in Gulf of Oman, radios to female crewmen to stop causing earthquakes or else!

[Vroomfondel]

ping

[Mack Truck]

Possible reasong:

They want to get a closer look in preparation for attacking.
They want to provoke war.
They want to provoke nuclear war.
They want to taunt the U.S.
They want to try to convince Muslims they don’t suffer from a short man complex.

[Typical_Whitey]

Of course this is surrender the Combat Watch Officer should have lit off the CIWS when this thing got that close. What type of ROE does OBAMA have the military following? Is there orders that they have to take a hit first before retaliation? Remember the USS Stark, Rmember the USS Cole.... What is wrong with my country?

[Thunder90]

The Russians also have been buzzing over our fleets, and going under them with subs...

[appleharvey]

Does anyone else think this Kenyan is going to get a lot of us killed?

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Fox reported this as a UAV...

[hosepipe]

The Captain of the Carrier should be brought up on charges..
ALL democrats are a security risk..

[Ronin]

This seems odd to me. I thought that 5 km from the center of the flight deck was “owned” by the carrier and was internationally recognized as restricted airspace.

[dools007]

Ah, somebody tell me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t the Navy have a distance protocol to a capital ship, like an aircraft carrier? Wasn’t the Iranian plan way inside that envelope?

[olezip]

The Eisenhower was on duty in the Gulf of Oman in the northern Arabian Sea, in support of the Afghanistan war efforts, when the Iranian maritime patrol aircraft flew within 1,000 yards of the vessel, according to military officials.

It seems to me that the Navy reaction time is zero when an aircraft is within 1,000 yards. There should be none within 100 miles! You have what, ten minutes, to react with an enemy aircraft 100 miles away. You have 3 seconds at 1,000 yards. Hardly enough time to contact the White House to get permission to defend yourself.

[ducttape45]

They keep doing this and it will lead to a confrontation sooner or later. They are just daring our ships to open fire so they can justify a war.

[SoldierDad]

And it wasn’t blown out of the sky because?????

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[SwinneySwitch]

Did the pilot show them his e-mail address?