A Russian anti-submarine aircraft threw a team of American flagships of the US Sixth Fleet and journalists on deck into panic.

This afternoon, the US military ship "Mount Whitney" was subjected to "attack" Russian anti-submarine aircraft Tu-142MK. According to the portal Avia.pro, the Russian combat aircraft flew several kilometers from an American warship simulating an attack, which caused a real shock to the US military and journalists.

The American warship "Mount Whitney" takes part in military exercises off the coast of Norway, however, according to a statement made earlier by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, in the same area Russia, from 1 to 3 in November, should conduct missile launches, including with the intersection of in which the NATO military exercises "Trident Juncture 2018" are held.

According to data presented in the American media, the Russian anti-submarine aircraft imitated an attack on a US military ship, which is the flagship of the US Sixth Fleet, at least this is indicated by the course of the Russian combat aircraft. Considering the previously made statements that rocket launches were supposed to be carried out in this area, it is logical to assume that the Russian aircraft was equipped with a large amount of weapons, but no official comments on this matter from the Russian Defense Ministry have yet been received.

“This is not the first time we see this, but for the first time we see it with the naked eye.”, - said one of the soldiers involved in the NATO military exercises.

As an AFP journalist reports, with the advent of the Russian anti-submarine aircraft, NATO troops temporarily stopped performing their assigned tasks, since there was a serious danger that the Russian combat aircraft could actually launch an attack on the American navy, including this applies to the aircraft carrier. " Harry Truman. "

Earlier it was reported that two Russian strategic Tu-160 bombers frightened the American military its appearance in the zone held military maneuvers.

* Tu-142 - Soviet and Russian long-range anti-submarine aircraft (DPLS). Originally intended to detect and destroy enemy SSBNs in patrol areas. In fact, the Navy is used for long-distance ocean intelligence, visual or electronic, for duty in the search and rescue service, and only then for searching and tracking SSBNs. Armed with torpedoes АТ-1, АТ-1М, АТ-2, АТ-2М, УМГТ-1; APR-1, APR-2, APR-3 and X-35 anti-submarine aircraft missiles; anti-submarine bombs and sea mines.