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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Chinese fighter jet got within 10 feet of US bomber over South China Sea, US military says

The Chinese pilot “flew in an unsafe and unprofessional manner, demonstrated poor airmanship by closing with uncontrolled excessive speed, flying below, in front of, and within 10 feet of the B-52, putting both aircraft in danger of collision,” US Indo-Pacific Command said in a Thursday statement. “We are concerned this pilot was unaware of how close he came to causing a collision.”

"We are concerned this pilot was unaware of how hard he was dunking on us, and hope he finds this footage useful in bragging to his compatriots"

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

demonstrated poor airmanship

excessive speed, flying below, in front of, and within 10 feet of the B-52

they did all that without smashing into the intruder

sounds like good airmanship to me shrug-outta-hecks

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pilot performed some "Dope ass tricks" and was seen doing some "real sick shit ain't nobody ever seen before." We are incredibly disappointed by his dazzling display of aerial prowess

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

he's even got a huge airbrake deployed in the video, so he's right at the bottom edge of the flight envelope and still giving the b-52 the airplane equivalent of a noogie

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Fuck it, I ship em

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you"

"MOM!!!! Chinese Pilot isn't touching me."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Pilot does that scene from Top Gun.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

uhh just sounds like he was a better pilot? cope

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like the yank pilot is jealous that what the Chinese pilot could pull off. It's only unsafe and poor airmanship if you fucking crash while doing it. Otherwise, it sounds like a top pilot.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm almost of the belief that these press releases are done just so the hotdog pilot can get the footage from the other plane, but I'm probably giving too much credit to the USAF

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile the Klanadian pilot when this happened to him: Shit the Chinese have some good moves

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

"Wing I'm about to BTFO these chair force hacks"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

China's done this repeatedly and not collided once. Really makes you think who's unsafe and uncontrolled in this context...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I didn't catch where this happened? The South United States Sea?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Never mind asking wht there's a b52 that can launch cruise missiles, maybe nuclear cruise missils, fucking around on the other side of the world.