Eh, lieutenant, what were you doing there?
Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations.
Posted on 05/04/2010 1:11:31 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Iran's navy commander has confirmed the flight of an Iranian aircraft near a US warship in the waters of the Persian Gulf.
On Tuesday, CNN quoted a senior US military officer as saying that an F27 aircraft of the Iranian Navy flew as low as 300 feet near the USS Eisenhower on April 21.
"US warships tread the free waters of the Gulf of Oman and it is Iranian navy's duty to conduct routine surveillance flights in the region," Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, the Iranian Navy commander, said in a Tuesday news conference.
"The F27 plane of the navy flew above this aircraft carrier and took a thorough film," he added.
According to US military officials, the Eisenhower was on duty in the Gulf of Oman in the northern Arabian Sea when the Iranian maritime patrol aircraft flew within 1,000 yards (915 meters) of the vessel.
The Iranian aircraft was an unarmed Fokker F27 and remained in the vicinity of the Eisenhower for about 20 minutes before leaving the area, US army officials said.
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Incorrect. Half of you guys on Freepers would have caused WW3 on their own if they were in charge! It doesn’t work like that in the real world. See how close this Soviet Tu-16 Badger gets to the carrier during the Cold War.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3bijF2—os
Iranian recce aircraft have been checking out US and Coalition vessels on a regular basis. Remember this is international waters. Iranian naval vessels when they venture out into international waters also get checked out. It has been going on for decades.
Yep now if that Badger had Painted the carrier group with his radar he would have been vaporized inside of 10 seconds. Its a big game of chicken that has been played on the high seas since the end of WWII.
“Hmmmm... I remember a time when a fly-by like that would have resulted in a bang or two followed by a splash.”
The Russians used to overfly us all the time and we didn’t shoot them down. No need to get all trigger happy and cause an incident.
Is Freepers some sort of drug?
Eh, lieutenant, what were you doing there?
Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations.
That was wartime with declared enemies. AFAIK, we are not at war with Iran.
Big difference between real life and internet life ...
Alright, if you’re gonna adopt that attitude, I’m gonna shut off the computer and get ready for my date with Christina Aguilera.
Shut your computer off and Christina goes 'poof'!
(we experts on security matter always build redundancy into our systems)
All good points, IS1.
Easy some Jerk Reporters probably think they are getting exclusives and will get them on MSNBC as a Star.
Jackasses
So old That I have Super 8 film Of the Russian Bears over flying the USS Constellation followed by two F4 Phantoms,if you still have an 8 millimeter Projector you can look at it.
I like the one where a Marine F-18 was in Iranian air space and their ATC said they were going to send up their aircraft to intercept and he replied go ahead I’ll wait.
...when we shot it down. (A guy can dream!)
F4s on Connie. 60s or 70s?
I am just a youngster. First deployment was with VF213 [F14s]on the Enterprise in ‘82.
In NORPAC we had almost 200 flybys in a 2 week period.
The evil empire got a bit nervious when there were multi-carrier battle group operations within 300nm of Petr. Midway was out there with use.
On the way back from Gonzo, we did it again. Only this time it was with Midway and the Coral Sea. Had the first reported Backfire runs on us on that cruise...
Shouldn’t we have launched planes to keep them away? I guess I don’t understand why we would let them do that type of flyover- what if they had intentions other than filming? Not that I approve of them being able to film but hey what if they had seriously bad intentions?
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