Russian Intercept Underscores Tensions in Black Sea

Russian Intercept Underscores Tensions in Black Sea
Russian Intercept Underscores Tensions in Black Sea

A Russian fighter plane gave a US surveillance plane an unexpectedly rough ride on Monday, part of an increase in tensions in the Black Sea.

PACOM Presses To Film China’s Reckless Pilots From P-3s, P-8s

PACOM Presses To Film China’s Reckless Pilots From P-3s, P-8s
PACOM Presses To Film China’s Reckless Pilots From P-3s, P-8s

Concerned over increasingly reckless Chinese and Russian intercepts of US aircraft, Pacific Command says it urgently needs cameras on its planes to provide irrefutable proof of their misbehavior. The problem: reconnaissance planes like the propeller-driven P-3 Orion and the new jet-powered P-8 Poseidon are designed to take photos of the land and sea far below, not of…