Is this really NBD?
seems weird to me
MOSCOW—The United States and Russia on Tuesday played down a weekend flyover by Russian bombers of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Pacific, with Moscow defending the move as routine and the Americans calling it unprovocative.
...Navy Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of U.S. Naval Operations, said Tuesday that he did not consider the flyover a provocative act.
“It was non-provocative in the sense that it was a very predictable flight, early detection, and then we just followed it in,”...But he acknowledged that he did not believe the Russians alerted the U.S. in advance. He said the U.S. has not asked for an explanation, nor have the Russians offered one.
...Although “it’s not prudent to fly over an aircraft carrier,” he said, “we knew they were coming. We saw them coming. We detected them at the appropriate time. We launched our alert aircraft, who escorted the Russian aircraft."
What did that mean, really?
“... it’s not prudent to fly over an aircraft carrier,”
I’m adding that one to the Standard List of Understatements.
Posted by ZZMike on 02/14/08 at 09:13 AM
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