Crete- A US Navy P-8A Poseidon, an anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare aircraft, flying over the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday was intercepted by a Russian SU-35 fighter jet. The Russian fighter, piloted by Ivan Mavanov and his RIO Boris Goosavich, performed an inverted maneuver at a range of 8 meters. Through an interpreter Goosavish said, “It was more like 5 meters.” When asked by reporters ‘what they were doing there?’ Mavanov answered, “Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations” and then gave the reporter the bird, you know, the finger. The incident, which lasted as long as 42 minutes, was deemed “unsafe” and “irresponsible” by US Navy officials because it created ‘wake turbulence’ and put the US pilots and crew at risk. It was reported that several crew members spilled coffee on themselves and then screamed, “I want some butts!”

The same type of incident was reported in June of 2019 over the same Mediterranean international airspace. Russian officials claim there was a similar incident in 1986 involving US and Soviet Fighters over the Indian Ocean. A civilian flight instructor doubts that the Russian fighter was inverted citing recent intelligence that the SU-35 has a problem with its inverted flight tanks. It won’t do a negative-G pushover. Although the Russians deny last Wednesday’s incident, Mavanov and Goosavich enjoy being on the front page of every newspaper in the Russian speaking world.

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