{"id":7252,"date":"2015-04-11T17:06:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T22:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7252"},"modified":"2015-04-11T17:06:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T22:06:24","slug":"russian-fighter-jet-gives-us-recon-airplane-top-gun-style-interception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7252","title":{"rendered":"Russian Fighter Jet Gives US Recon Airplane &#8220;Top Gun&#8221;-Style Interception"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-04-11\/russian-fighter-jet-gives-us-recon-airplane-top-gun-style-interception\" target=\"_blank\">Russian Fighter Jet Gives US Recon Airplane &#8220;Top Gun&#8221;-Style Interception<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Over the past year, NATO has flooded the media with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/viewer?mid=zuYQQjbk2yqY.keUJQxu7jKGY&amp;authuser=0\">over 100 reports\u00a0<\/a>of its aircraft intercepting Russian spy and warplanes over neutral territory which supposedly were getting too close to native soil for comfort and in urgent need of an escort. Last week, however, the roles were reversed when a US RC-135U reconnaissance aircraft was intercepted in very close proximity by a Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet over the Baltic Sea near Russia\u2019s Kaliningrad Region.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon promptly accused the Russian pilot of coming dangerously close to the US aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the morning of April 7th, a U.S. RC-135U flying a routine route in international airspace was intercepted by a Russian Su-27 Flanker in an unsafe and unprofessional manner,\u201d said Pentagon spokeswoman Eileen M. Lainez.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2015\/03\/TU%20135.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2015\/03\/TU%20135_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States is raising this incident with Russia in the appropriate diplomatic and official channels,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A defense official said the Russian fighter jet flew within 20 feet of the unarmed reconnaissance jet in what the official called a \u201creckless\u201d encounter that endangered the lives of the RC-135 crew.<\/p>\n<p>The official said that a Russian Su-27 passed within 6 meters meters of the unarmed reconnaissance aircraft; by comparison the Sukhoi\u2019s wingspan is just under 15 meters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Fighter Jet Gives US Recon Airplane &#8220;Top Gun&#8221;-Style Interception Over the past year, NATO has flooded the media with\u00a0over 100 reports\u00a0of its aircraft intercepting Russian spy and warplanes over neutral territory which supposedly were getting too close to native soil for comfort and in urgent need of an escort. Last week, however, the roles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[525,553,4741,694,827],"class_list":["post-7252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-north-american-treaty-organization","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7253,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions\/7253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}