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The US Air Force experienced great stress due to a recent meeting with the Su-30SM aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the sky over the Sea of Okhotsk, the Chinese portal Sohu reports. It is noted that the American RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft approached the Russian border, and a Russian fighter jet flew out to meet it, which made several maneuvers and thereby hinted at the undesirability of finding Americans in this area.
“The Americans were very scared, and the pilot of the reconnaissance plane was thrown into a cold sweat,” the publication says. After that, the American plane turned around and flew towards its base.
It is noted that the American pilot could have been scared by a trick called “air scalpel”, which was once used by a Soviet plane over the Barents Sea in the late 1980s. It consists in the maximum approach and touching the enemy aircraft with the wing. This can cause serious damage to the fuselage of the aircraft, which receives a “surgical” incision.
The provocation of the Americans ended in failure, but we cannot exclude its repetition, the Chinese are sure. To prevent this from happening, Beijing and Moscow need to join forces. “Russia and China must act together to respond as effectively as possible to American provocations,” the article emphasizes.