Chinese Fighter Jets Fly Within 50 Feet Of US Spy Plane Near China
It started one month ago when first a Russian Su-24 “buzzed” the US missile destroyer USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea allegedly over Russian territorial waters; then just days later another Russian fighter jet flew within 50 feet of a US recon plane also flying over the Baltic Sea; this was followed by a third close encounter when a little over a week later a Russian Mig-31s flew within 50 feet of a US spy plane flying over a Russian naval base in the Kamchatka peninsula; the fourth provocation took place just days later when as a Russian SU-27 conducted a barrel roll over a U.S. Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance plane flying over the Baltic sea.
This series of Top Gun-like, if very dangerous (on purpose) stunts culminated this past Monday when yet another US spy plane once again brushed against the Russian border, promptly leading to another, understandably, angry Russian response.
So after five such encounters between US and Russian armed forces, all of which ‘oddly’ took place in the immediate vicinity of Russia and not, say, above the Gulf of Mexico or next to California, the US has moved on to provoking another even bigger and more dangerous cold war foe, China.
According to NBC two Chinese military aircraft intercepted a U.S. military reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea Tuesday.
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