Russian planes fly over U.S. naval ships

Washington - Two Russian planes flew within 500 feet of U.S. Navy ships participating in military drills with South Korea, military officials said. After trying unsuccessfully to contact the pilots, U.S. fighter jets met up with the Russian planes and flew with them until they left the area.

Russian Ilyushin IL-38 maritime patrol aircraft flew over the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis while it was in international waters in the Sea of Japan.

[This is dangerously irresponsible behavior: any degradation in a Carrier Group's defcon status, which Russia has no way of knowing, calls for repulsion of any such intrusion long before it's within range of doing harm.]

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