Russian airforce SU-24 Bomber made 12 low fly by the guided missile navvy destroyer USS Donald Cook as another watched from a distance, intelligence officials have confirmed.
The aggressive low altitude passes on the naval ship west of the Black Sea has prompted president Obama to call President Putin over the Ukrainian conflict Monday mid morning.
United States defense intelligence officials confirm that a Russian warplane made several close-range passes by the USS Donald Cook, a guided-missile Navy destroyer in the western Black Sea.
US Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren termed the Russian military maneuver as a reckless, unprofessional act that violates international protocols and Russian-American military collaboration agreements.
Pentagon referred the several close-range passes by the Russian SU 24 air superiority fighter aircraft as provocative and extremely aggressive.
The aircraft did not have any towed missile attached to it nor did it make maneuvers meant to provoke a military response of equivalent nature.
That is an SU-27 or a variant, not a swing-wing single tailed bomber like the fencer.