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U.S. defense officials say that a Russian fighter jet flew as close as within 3 meters of a US Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft in international airspace:
The Pentagon says a Russian fighter plane flew within about 10ft (3m) of one of its reconnaissance aircraft operating over the Black Sea. US officials described the intercept by the SU-27 jet on Wednesday as "dangerous and unprofessional". Russia's defence ministry said the US plane had been approaching Russian territory and the SU-27 pilots had adhered to international rules. Russia is currently carrying out military exercises in the Black Sea.
Pentagon spokesman Capt Jeff Davis said the US Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft had been conducting routine operations in international airspace when the Russian fighter made the unsafe manoeuvre. "These actions have the potential to unnecessarily escalate tensions, and could result in a miscalculation or accident," he said. A US defence official quoted by AFP news agency said the Russian plane had flown within 30ft of the P-8A before closing to just 10ft.
Also at Reuters. You may remember this similar incident.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by tibman on Thursday September 08 2016, @04:42PM
Older military is more racist, sexist, and unprofessional. Newer military does not play these kinds of games anymore (they shouldn't be, anyways). Bunch of idiots flexing muscles at each other. Be serious and take the situation seriously. Anyways, era rivalry is nothing new. WW2 vets looked at Vietnam vets like they were a bunch of whining babies. Vietnam vets look at Iraq/Afghanistan vets like they are whining babies. My theory is that there has always been whining babies.
When an Air Force pilot calls another pilot "unprofessional" this is actually a pretty bad cut-down. Insinuates they don't know their craft and they don't take it seriously. Like "go join a flying circus or something where fucking around is appreciated."
Also, a woman or gay man can shoot you dead just as easy as a straight man. Especially after a thousand hours on the range and a few years of deployments under their belt. Crazy deadly.
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(Score: 1) by pTamok on Thursday September 08 2016, @05:51PM
Anyone who thinks homosexuals don't belong in military forces don't know their classical history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_militaries_of_ancient_Greece [wikipedia.org]
and especially
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Thebes [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @06:24PM
The word homosexual didn't even really exist until about a century ago when it was explicitly created to group a large variety of sexual behavior into a single diagnosis of mental disease. Since then our whole concept of sexuality has been forced into this binary paradigm that didn't, and really shouldn't, exist.