[MinuteGal]

I wish the article had told us how many miles off the California coast the Russian planes were flying.

(....minor details, I guess....

Leni

[Sioux-san]

what about Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela - wonder what Putin is doing there as well

[WhiskeyX]

“I wish the article had told us how many miles off the California coast the Russian planes were flying.”

In the past, our fighter-interceptors met the TU-95 Bear bombers at the ADIZ (Air Defense Identification Zone) and escorted the bombers as they flew along the 3 mile limit of the coast.

We also used to monitor the Soviet “fishing boat - ELINT” vessels and submarines trying to push into the 3 mile limit off the coast of such installations as the Vandenburg AFB missile test range. We sat in an observation post on the beach and watched them tool around off our coast with a pair of high power military binoculars.

[DoughtyOne]

Yep. I agree.