US navy apparently wet themselves when a Russian Jet came close, to keep up international relations, by flipping the US Jet the bird, in a 'Top Gun' style 'Inverted Manoeuvre'.
The Pentagon are crying like little bitches about an incident with the Russian military on Wednesday over the Mediterranean Sea which the US says nearly led to a midair collision, not unlike the cool Maverick 'Inverted Manoeuvre' US propaganda flick 'Top Gun'. We're told that the incident began when a Russian fighter jet intercepted an American P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft, which is typically used for tracking submarines, at very close range.
Notably as Stars and Stripes describes, the Russian jet was inverted at a high-speed close to the US plane: "a Russian SU-35 performed a high-speed, inverted manoeuvre 5 feet in front of the Navy plane, U.S. Naval Forces targeting Europe-Africa" bleated the US in a statement.
In total the incident was said to last 42 minutes, causing strong turbulence aboard the P-8A the whole time, according to the Navy. The Russian jet effectively "buzzed" the US plane, similar to a prior June 2019 incident over the Mediterranean.
“Unsafe actions increase the risk of miscalculation and potential for midair collisions,” US Naval Forces Europe-Africa said.
“The U.S. aircraft was operating consistent with international law and did not provoke this Russian activity,” the statement added.
Typically such close US-Russian aerial encounters occur over the Baltic and Black Sea regions, as well as in international airspace off Alaska, such as a recent incident involving US F-22s chasing off Russian maritime patrol planes 50 miles of the Alaskan coast.
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