Iranian jet buzzed the USS Eisenhower

[citizen k]

AP source: US Navy has encounter with Iranian jet
By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press


WASHINGTON – A U.S. military official says the Navy had a close encounter with an Iranian surveillance jet last week in the Gulf of Oman.

The official says the jet buzzed a Navy aircraft carrier, the USS Eisenhower, coming within about 1,000 yards of the ship. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, said the April 21 incident occurred in international waters.

The jet was described as a maritime patrol aircraft generally used for surveillance.

The official says "there was nothing threatening about the aircraft itself or how it presented itself."

The official could not confirm reports by NBC and CBS that the jet made three passes over the Navy ship.

[garbon]

I buzz this topic.

edit: Or is it digg or like? 

[Razgovory]

Slow news day.

"US Navy sees an air plane"

[jimmy olsen]

1,000 yards? Can't a jet over that distance in a few seconds? What if it had swerved over and tried to kamikaze into the ship? Would there have been enough time to react and shoot it down?

[Jaron]

  @ Tim

[garbon]

What if Queen Elizabeth I had been piloting the jet?

[Jaron]

What if Queen Elizabeth I had been piloting the jet?

How DARE you talk about the Queen Mother that way!

[garbon]

Who's mother was she?

[Jaron]

The Queen

[Siege]

1,000 yards? Can't a jet over that distance in a few seconds? What if it had swerved over and tried to kamikaze into the ship? Would there have been enough time to react and shoot it down?

Tim, that plane got inside the AAA umbrella protecting the carrier, in international waters, and our brave sailors did nothing.
Now the iranians know how to take out a carrier.

This is call a dry run.

[Ed Anger]

Maverick and Iceman were too busy staring each other down on the hangar deck to stop them.

[Siege]

Maverick and Iceman were too busy staring each other down on the hangar deck to stop them.

And as always, there have to be a movie reference from a war movie.

Ah, I forgot, war is only a movie for you.

[Ed Anger]

Maverick and Iceman were too busy staring each other down on the hangar deck to stop them.

And as always, there have to be a movie reference from a war movie.

Ah, I forgot, war is only a movie for you.

As it should be. I am much too valuable to myself to be risked doing shit plebs can do better.

Enjoy being cannon fodder!

[grumbler]

Tim, that plane got inside the AAA umbrella protecting the carrier, in international waters, and our brave sailors did nothing.
Now the iranians know how to take out a carrier.

This is call a dry run.

  Never change!

I would note that "brave" Siegebreaker did nothing about the plane (other than whine), either.

[derspiess]

Marty would've stopped the plane with his bare hands.