Pilots of US F-22A behaved correctly during the escort of Russian strategic bombers Tu-95MS over neutral waters, According to Red Star.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry told, that missile carriers Tu-95MS and antisubmarine aircraft Tu-142 successfully completed the planned flight over neutral waters and worked aerial refueling. One of the groups on a separate site was accompanied by American fighter F-22A.
Kept pilots F-22A correctly, no aggressive intentions did not show, only indicates its presence at a respectable, about 100 m, distances, He told the newspaper the group commander of the Tu-95MS, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Manyagin.
According to him, Americans clearly take into account the, that the Russian pilots to operate in strict accordance with international rules, without violating the borders of other states.
"If in previous times, in such cases, our planes were accompanied by four or five successive groups of Japanese Air Force fighter, USA, South Korea, but this time identified himself only Americans, and only one pair of fighters ", - the article says.
The flight is 11 May over the neutral waters of the Arctic Ocean, Bering and Okhotsk Seas. During the flight, bombers, and anti-aircraft accompanied the MiG-31 and Su-35 videoconferencing. During the 17-hour flight crews worked air refueling. All tasks as planned air patrols have been carried out in full.
