A Russian fighter jet flew dangerously close to a US spy plane over the Black Sea on Wednesday, the Pentagon said, although Moscow quickly insisted the encounter was within “international rules.”
A Russian Su-27 Flanker jet made an unsafe, close-range intercept of a US P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine and intelligence plane conducting “routine operations” in international airspace, Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said.
This file photo taken on April 12, 2016 shows a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft flying over the USS Donald Cook (DDG 75), an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, operating in the Baltic Sea.(AFP PHOTO / US NAVY 6TH FLEET / …read more
Source: Malaya Business Insight
