WINGS OVER THE BALTIC
Journal: Current Digest of the Russian Press The
Year: 2016

(By staff commentator Pavel Felgengauer. Novaya
 gazeta, April 20, 2016, p. 6. Condensed text:) A pair of
 Russian Su-24 bombers cruising over international waters of the
 Baltic Sea 70 kilometers from Kaliningrad Province flew within
 several meters of the USS Donald Cook’s deck. A day later, an Su-27
 fighter intercepted a US Air Force RC-135U reconnaissance aircraft,
 reportedly flying within a dozen meters of it. A random gust of
 wind, and one of the Su-24s could have grazed the rigging,
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