U.S. officials say Russia sent a Su-27 jet screaming by a U.S. spy plane over the Baltic Sea on Tuesday morning.
Footage of a “safe” but “unprofessional” buzzing released by the U.S. military shows one of its P-8 surveillance planes in a close encounter with Russian aircraft in the latest round of sabre rattling from Moscow.
The Su-27 jet came within 20 feet of the P-8 in the first such intercept since January, Fox News reported.
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The last encounter between U.S. and Russian planes took place over the Black See and involved a Su-27 jet and an EP-3 spy plane.
U.S. Navy officials said at the time that the buzzing “crossing directly through the EP-3’s flight path” and lasted roughly two hours and forty minutes.
Russian fighter jet buzzes U.S. military spy plane over Baltic Sea, officials say https://t.co/ZT4GAoTh4s pic.twitter.com/mMyt9OkgIr
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