"Russian Su-27 Aggressively 'Pushes' A U.S. F-15" Topic

….By Banking Across It (Video)

"A Russian fighter jet has been filmed forcing a US F-15 to turn away and change course by flying dangerously close to the American aircraft.

In footage circulating on Russian social media, the Su-27 fighter comes into frame and makes a sharp left to bank across the F-15 from the side.

The US-made plane has no choice but to move out of the way as the Russian jet came within feet of hitting it…."

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Russian professionalism at it's finest.

At least their paint schemes are still pretty.

The Israelis have proven (the hard way) that an F15 missing most of one wing can still fly you home.

I don't know that you can say that about Sukhois.

I've said before, it is time to start illuminating the Russian planes with an active seeker alert when they pull crap like this.

Hmmm, would be unfortunate if the American jet just happened to check to see if his cannons are working at just that moment.

Serendipity happens…….

The U.S. Navy EP-3 Aries aircraft was intercepted by a Russian SU-27 jet

The video is of an F-15. (He should have high yo-yoed and sat on the Sukhoi's 6 with his radars on.)

Western press at its finest ;)

Omitting a valid portion of the story:

Sukhoi was protecting a government plane in international airspace. Nato airplane approached way too close to civilian airliner and was pushed away – ok, may be more aggressively than safely, but there was a reason.
Smb. on board of the civilian airplane filmed this video.

BTW, it is not the first accident when NATO (and it was Swiss fighter in one case) are putting way too many attention to civilian airliners used by Russian government or ministry of defence.

At Nellis early 80's one of our FF F-15's wings got bent in the air, had to stay behind after we left until repaired but it landed alright.

Watching that vid the Su doesn't seem too aggressive to me.

It's a fairly gentle nudge to push him away.
The Su was alongside not in front.

I've seen a lot worse.

If the Su had positioned itself directly in front of the F-15 and then closed the distance to a few feet, say, then I'd say that was a bit naughty. But he didn't.

However, I think the F-15 was in a safe position to start with so was the Su maneuver necessary?

RAF intercepts of Bears north of Scotland regularly escort the Bears by positioning to their side and the F-15 seemed to be doing just that.

Please define "way too close" for us Barin.

Is that 3 – 6 feet, or so, like with some encounters of our jets with Russian aircraft, or zero feet, like with errant, poorly flown, Chinese fighter jets?

Not sure, there's no precise information on the accident, and we don't know what was happening before the moments, filmed on the video.
we're not talking about several feet of course – it would not be allowed. Escort is to protect government plane. I don't think escort of Air Force One will be sitting idly if a Russian fighter will approach it over Atlantic.
There's another video of similar acccident – also over Baltic, also with civilian airplane, carrying our MoD.
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So I guess distances might be similar.

BTW, one of our senators today was suggesting the same course of action as you, Thresher, suggested in your first post.
Luckily both pilots had enough brains to not let it happen.

Hopefully, neither country puts a pilot in the seat of a fighter without checking they're stable and smart enough not to "accidentally" cause a huge diplomatic disaster.

BTW, one of our senators today was suggesting the same course of action as you, Thresher, suggested in your first post.
Luckily both pilots had enough brains to not let it happen.

And 50% of the pilots involved were smart enough not to try to instigate a mid-air collision.

So I guess it's all good.

I expect if it did happen Barin, other parties would be more "polite" and respectful in the future.