WASHINGTON: The US military released a video Monday of a Russian Su-24 bomber flying past an American warship in the Black Sea to dispel what it called inaccurate media reports about a routine encounter.
In the video, a Su-24 aircraft appears in the distance, then zooms by the USS Ross – a guided-missile destroyer.
Other Russian bombers also flew within sight of the ship, officials said.
Such footage is rarely released publicly but the US Navy decided to post it “because we were unsatisfied with the press reporting, and we wanted to show exactly what happened,” Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren told …read more
Source: theSun
