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BBC News reports:
Russian warplanes have made several close passes in recent days over a US destroyer sailing in the Black Sea, the Pentagon said. Russian state media reported that the USS Ross was acting "aggressively". The US Department of Defense, however, said the ship was "well within international waters at all times, performing routine operations". The US Navy released video on Monday of a Russian plane passing as close as 500 metres to the USS Ross.
A Pentagon spokesman went on to assert that the Russian Su-24 planes were not armed and that the USS Ross made no changes to it's course in response to the passes. Russian warplanes have been exercising pretty hard lately with airborne intercepts by NATO forces increasing dramatically over recent months. In a previous story, also from BBC News, defence correspondent Jonathan Beale stated that the Royal Air Force is intercepting Russian planes approaching UK airspace with their transponders disabled on a monthly basis. Although no rules have been broken regarding sovereignty of international airspace or territorial waters, tensions have obviously increased, as have submarine patrols and exercises by both Russia and NATO.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by frojack on Wednesday June 03 2015, @12:03AM
Yes, it pretty well did stop for quite a while. Which is why its news.
Putin has only restarted this nonsense for home consumption over the last two of three years.
When I first moved to Alaska, about 74, it was still going in, with Bear bombers penetrating as deep as Fairbanks just to let us know that the Alaska pipeline was well within their reach. They would fly just above tree top level from the coast. I remember seeing the first flight of F15's fly through town on their way forward operations base at Galena. The first two years there they were based on a gravel runway. (More F15's were lost (crashed) in Alaska than any other single area. )
Then this all went away, about the time Gorbachev came to power in 85. The Russians slowed, then stopped Alaska overflights just about completely. Maybe one feint per year, if they could afford the fuel. Because overflights became so rare, F15s were pulled out of Galena, but their base was always maintained at the ready for a new wing to come in, which they did once or twice a year.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.