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Russian Su-27 flies within 5ft of U.S. Navy EP-3

Puffnstuff

Puffnstuff

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russia has an economy the size of italy. Once we are done with fossil fuels that will become the backwoods barbarians everyone knows they are. Their main export will be weird porn.
 
5 feet distance of jet aircraft is hard to imagine. What would happen if they actually hit one of our jets? What are we doing out on the Black Sea anyway?
 
dainthomas said:
Foreign relations?
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I thought the Russian hotel room was the foreign relations part.😛
JSt0rm said:
Their main export will be weird porn.
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I was under the impression that it already was.😛
interchange said:
5 feet distance of jet aircraft is hard to imagine. What would happen if they actually hit one of our jets?
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The distance probably came from the huge instrument packs all over the aircraft. If they collided it would probably be pretty bad for the fighter and the surveillance plane depending on how they touched. We are there conducting surveillance in international airspace.
BoomerD said:
Did you not watch Top Gun?
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Just in case they missed it.
 
In April 2001 an aerial collision between a EP-3E ARIES II, a signals reconnaissance version and a People's Liberation Army Navy J-8IIM fighter resulted in an international incident between the United States and China. The J-8IIM crashed and its pilot was killed. The EP-3 came close to becoming uncontrollable, at one point sustaining a nearly inverted roll, but was able to make an emergency landing on Hainan. The crew and plane were subsequently detained by Chinese authorities, accused of "killing the Chinese pilot".
 
Don't worry, Trump just promised he isn't going to enact those sanctions that the Senate passed 98-2 (deadline was today).
 
Puffnstuff said:
Well the games are afoot again and this time they came extra close to one of our aircraft. If you will recall about 7 months ago they did the same thing but since things at home are so tumultuous they seem to be at it again.

What do you guys think? Is Putin playing footsies or are we just wagging the dog?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/29/politics/russia-jet-us-navy-black-sea/index.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-jet-flies-within-five-feet-of-us-navy-plane-black-sea-pentagon/
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dainthomas said:
Foreign relations?
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Puffnstuff said:
I thought the Russian hotel room was the foreign relations part.😛

I was under the impression that it already was.😛

The distance probably came from the huge instrument packs all over the aircraft. If they collided it would probably be pretty bad for the fighter and the surveillance plane depending on how they touched. We are there conducting surveillance in international airspace.

Just in case they missed it.
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You know, the Bird!
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Sorry, I hate it when it does that.
 
NAC4EV said:
In April 2001 an aerial collision between a EP-3E ARIES II, a signals reconnaissance version and a People's Liberation Army Navy J-8IIM fighter resulted in an international incident between the United States and China. The J-8IIM crashed and its pilot was killed. The EP-3 came close to becoming uncontrollable, at one point sustaining a nearly inverted roll, but was able to make an emergency landing on Hainan. The crew and plane were subsequently detained by Chinese authorities, accused of "killing the Chinese pilot".
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From 2001, shortly after that incident:
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BoomerD said:
Did you not watch Top Gun?
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I bet that Russian Pilot was under the misunderstanding that doing such a thing would serve to diffuse a tense situation* due to a bad translation of Top Gun in circulation at his base.


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Puffnstuff said:
Could it be that those tiny hands are holding more cheeseburgers these days?😛
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Why how dare you impune the velocity of his magnitude? At 6'3" and 239 lbs., the man is an absolute paragon of good health...




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if he's 239 lbs., I'm positively anorexic!
 
JSt0rm said:
russia has an economy the size of italy. Once we are done with fossil fuels that will become the backwoods barbarians everyone knows they are. Their main export will be weird porn.
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More like depressing porn. Japan holds a monopoly on weird porn with Germany maintaining a close second. Russia's main export will continue to be mail-order brides.
 
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