Russian su-27 staged a dangerous incident with the aircraft over the Black sea.
Russian fighter 7 September, he made the interception of a us spy plane over the Black sea. This was announced by the Pentagon, Reuters reports.
The Agency sources in the us defense Department called the actions of the crew of the su-27 in respect of aircraft P-8 “unsafe and unprofessional”.
“They (the airplanes. – Ed.) made a lot of interactions within 12 hours. But only one of the incidents the pilot was identified as unsafe,” – said one of the interlocutors.
At the same time, according to Russian media, the official representative of the Ministry of defense of Russia Igor Konashenkov, commenting on the interception of aircraft of the USA, said that the Russian pilots had acted in strict accordance with international rules of committing air flights.
According to him, the reconnaissance aircraft P-8 Poseidon of the U.S. Navy on Wednesday twice tried to “get closer to the state border of the Russian Federation over the Black sea included without transponders”.
Note that videoconferencing has repeatedly made “unsafe” maneuvers close to aircraft or surface ships NATO.
