Officials say incident involving Bear warplanes flying low and close to aircraft carrier was strange but ‘safe’ and took place in international watersThe USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier scrambled four fighter jets to intercept approaching Russian warplanes as it carried out a military exercise on Tuesday in the Sea of Japan,Pentagon and White House officials said on Thursday.
The two Russian “Bear planes came as close as a nautical mile from the carrier and were flying at a low-altitude, approximately 500 feet (152m) above sea level, or the officials said.
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Source: theguardian.com