Chinese fighter jet releases flares within 30m of Australian military aircraft over South China Sea

[Buckshot Bear]

Chinese fighter jet releases flares within 30m of Australian military aircraft over South China Sea

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/defence-and-foreign-affairs/chinese-jets-release-flares-within-30m-of-australian-military-aircraft-over-south-china-sea-defence-minister-confirms/news-story/f928780b8a56f20881bb6f7458164b68

 

Just another in a catalogue of similar incidents.  

[Alpo]

This is one of them times where I really hate the internet and it's damn abbreviations.

 

Is that 30 miles or 30 meters?

 

Because the Internet uses M for both.

[Subdeacon Joe]

14 minutes ago, Alpo said:

This is one of them times where I really hate the internet and it's damn abbreviations.

 

Is that 30 miles or 30 meters?

 

Because the Internet uses M for both.

 

From the article 

 

Chinese fighter jet releases flares within 30m of Australian military aircraft over South China Sea, Defence Minister confirms

A Chinese fighter jet has released flares within 30 metres of an Australian military aircraft during an incident over the South China Sea this week.

[Buckshot Bear]

And it gets worse -

 

https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/sign-of-things-to-come-chinese-warships-off-australian-coastline-exposes-dangerous-threat/news-story/e9f520fe1d4874ab528020fe8d66a974

[Subdeacon Joe]

Right out of a Clancy novel.

[Pat Riot]

Taunting sonsof…

[Sedalia Dave]

This and a lot more happens all the time. All countries do this.

 

In my day this never made the news.

[Subdeacon Joe]

7 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

This and a lot more happens all the time. All countries do this.

 

In my day this never made the news.

 

Pilots always play various forms of chicken with each other.  

 

Dropping flares that close is another matter.