Shocking footage released by the Pentagon shows a Russian fighter jet buzzing past a U.S. Navy spy plane flying through international airspace.
The footage shows a Russian Su-27 jet flying within five feet of the EP-3 Aries aircraft as the planes were flying in international airspace over the Black Sea.
Footage of the incident has already attracted more than 1.5 million views on YouTube:
“This interaction was determined to be unsafe due to the Su-27’s closing to within five feet and crossing directly through the EP-3’s flight path, causing the EP-3 to fly through the Su-27’s jet wash,” the Navy’s 6th Fleet said in a statement. – READ MORE
[give_form id=”79809″] [divider][/divider]The Washington Free Beacon reported on the sobering glimpse at the vulnerable reality outlined in the J-2 study, namely that “China and Russia will be capable of severely disrupting or destroying U.S. satellites in low-earth orbit” within the next few years, possibly as soon as 2020.
Both China and Russia are currently developing or fine-tuning an array of anti-satellite weapons to potentially be used in the future against U.S. assets in space.
Those weapons include: ground- and air-launched missiles, cyber attacks, high-tech lasers and energy beams, electronic signal jammers, electromagnetic pulses and even small, maneuverable satellites of their own that can be directed to attack and/or destroy U.S. satellites.
The warning from the Pentagon’s J-2 bore a remarkable similarity to warnings issued by Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats in congressional testimony in May of 2017.
“We assess that Russia and China perceive a need to offset any U.S. military advantage derived from military, civil, or commercial space systems and are increasingly considering attacks against satellite systems as part of their future warfare doctrine,” Coats stated. – READ MORE
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