Model Forum / General / Models / February 2008

2000 feet above the deck?  Twice?   So who is gonna catch hell for
that?

Craig

Russian bomber buzzes U.S. aircraft carrier
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
One jet twice flew about 2,000 feet over the deck of the USS Nimitz,
U.S. military says
U.S. Defense officials say four F/A-18A fighter jets from the Nimitz
were in the air
Japanese officials tell AP one of the jets violated their country's
airspace

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- American fighter jets intercepted two Russian
bombers, one of which buzzed a U.S. aircraft carrier in the western
Pacific over the weekend, U.S. military officials told CNN Monday.

A Tupolev-95 flies over the Izu Islands, just south of Tokyo,
Saturday.

One of them twice flew about 2,000 feet over the deck of the USS
Nimitz Saturday while another flew about 50 miles away, officials
said. Two others were at least 100 miles away, the military reported.

U.S. Defense officials said four F/A-18A fighter jets from the Nimitz
were in the air.

The Russians and the U.S. cartrier did not exchange verbal
communications.  Watch U.S. aircraft carrier USS Nimitz »

Four turboprop Tupolev-95 Bear bombers took off from Ukrainka air
base, in Russia's Far East, in the middle of the night, Japanese
officials told The Associated Press, adding that one of the jets
violated Japanese airspace.

Russian bombers have been making flights over the western Pacific for
several months. In September, two U.S. F-15 fighters scrambled to
intercept a plane that came within 50 miles of the coastline.

There have been eight incidents off Alaska since July. Among the
latest, on September 5, six F-15s from Elmendorf Air Force Base,
adjacent to Anchorage, Alaska, intercepted six Russian bombers about
50 miles from the northwest coast of Alaska.

Two similar incidents occurred in August, one near Cape Lisburne,
Alaska, and the other near Cold Bay, Alaska, west of the Aleutian
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