Russian navy jets disrupted US-Japanese military exercise
Japan and the US were forced to scramble fighter planes to intercept Russian navy jets apparently attempting to gather intelligence during a joint military exercise.
In what Japan said was an unprecedented show of force two 'submarine hunter' Ilyushin-38 jets from Russia's Pacific Fleet circled the biggest joint US-Japanese military exercise in history for several hours in an apparent attempt to gather intelligence.
The incursion was deemed so serious that the exercise was temporarily halted and F-15 fighter jets scrambled to intercept the Russian planes.
Although it is not unusual for foreign planes to try to spy on other countries' war games, Japanese media interpreted the move as Russia's latest warning shot in a festering territorial dispute between Moscow and Tokyo.
4 comments:
Well, Russia always knows how to fight.
testing -testing- and why am i not surprised!
weakness/appeasement always initiates intimidation-
C-CS
Send up Iceman and Merlin. Put Maverick and Jester on Ready Five.
The IL 38 is a close functional copy of the US P-3 Orion, like the one the Chinese forced down.
If the Russians are messing around STUPIDLY like this, it has meaning about what they expect our responses to be like and they are testing THAT as much as anything else.
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