Arctic Ocean: Russian jets buzz US frigate

[phantom power]

MOSCOW: Russian aircraft have buzzed a US Navy frigate in the Arctic Ocean in a Cold War-style show of force as the Kremlin steps up its campaign to claim much of the resource-rich region.

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The Pentagon said a Russian Il-38 submarine hunter plane armed with torpedoes and bombs flew within 50 metres of the USS Taylor in a hair-raising incident in the Barents Sea off Russia's northern coast just over a week ago.

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Reinforcing the message, a Ka-27 submarine hunter helicopter took off from a Russian warship the next day and again flew perilously close to the American ship.

The two incidents were deemed so serious that Admiral Gary Roughead, the head of the US Navy, raised the matter with Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky, his Russian counterpart.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/russian-jets-buzz-us-frigate-20100921-15lbv.html

[KansDem]

1. Oh, yeah, let's conjure up the Cold War again!

What' better than scaring Americans with mideast terrorists?

Scaring them with mideast terrorists and former-Soviet Union communists!

Now, if we can just throw in the anarchists of the early 20th century...

[Hannah Bell]

2. "its campaign to claim much of the resource-rich region." like the us has no such campaign.

[leveymg]

3. "Greed is good."

Let the Russians have their icebergs and fur hats. We have those nice, white, prestine Gulf Coast beaches.