Russian SU-27 warplane 'flew 1.5 meters' from US spy plane

A Russian contender fly has flown to a great degree near an American covert operative plane over the Black Sea.

The separation between the SU-27 warplane and the EP-3 spy plane was only 1.5m.

The US Navy said that the Russian plane followed the US flying machine for more than two hours. The episode happened in worldwide airspace.

The Russian protection service has guaranteed that its activities were as per worldwide principles for the utilization of airspace.

Powers from both Russia and the Nato cooperation work in the mutual airspace, albeit strains have expanded since Russia added Crimea in 2014.

In an announcement, the US Navy said the Russian contender planes had crossed straightforwardly into the American government operative plane's flight way.

It forewarned that "the Russian military is inside its entitlement to work inside worldwide airspace, however they should carry on inside global gauges set to guarantee security and anticipate episodes".

The Russian safeguard service, then again, said the flight way of its plane was "as per the worldwide principles for the utilization of airspace".

It said that the conduct of its pilots was not at all "non-standard" and that their activities were an endeavor to "prevent [the US plane] from abusing the Russian Federation's airspace".

The Russian government said once the US plane had moved far from the outskirt, its contender fly came back to base.