A Russian Navy Il-38N “Dolphin” maritime patrol aircraft flew at low altitude near the USS Carl Vinson during a naval exercise in the East China Sea, new footage released by Moscow has revealed.
The incident, which took place last week, shows the Russian aircraft – NATO reporting name “May” – skimming past the U.S. Navy supercarrier at close range.
It was shadowed by a U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet and an F-35C Lightning II, both assigned to Carrier Air Wing Two aboard the Vinson.
The footage, filmed from the Russian aircraft, offers a rare perspective on these increasingly common Cold War-style encounters between Western and Russian forces, particularly in contested regions such as the Indo-Pacific.
While the U.S. Navy has not officially commented on the flyby, the video highlights the persistent presence of Russian military aviation in international airspace near major allied exercises.
The USS Carl Vinson is currently deployed in the region alongside Japanese and South Korean forces. Its presence is part of a broader U.S. strategy aimed at deterring aggression and reassuring allies amid rising tensions with China and continued instability caused by Russia’s global military assertiveness.
The Il-38N, an updated version of the Cold War-era Il-38, is used for maritime surveillance and anti-submarine warfare. Russia began modernising the platform in the 2010s, with enhancements including new avionics, electronic surveillance equipment, and a modern radar suite.
The aircraft seen in the footage is believed to be one of the 30 upgraded Il-38Ns acquired by the Russian Navy.
The Carl Vinson
The USS Carl Vinson is a United States Navy Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Commissioned in 1982, it is the third ship in its class and forms part of the U.S. Navy’s strategic power projection capability.
The vessel is powered by two Westinghouse A4W nuclear reactors, which enable virtually unlimited range and endurance, allowing it to remain deployed at sea for extended periods without refuelling. It has a full load displacement of approximately 100,000 tons and a length of 1,092 feet (333 metres).
The carrier is designed to support a Carrier Air Wing (CVW), typically composed of more than 60 aircraft. These include multirole fighters such as the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and F-35C Lightning II, electronic warfare aircraft like the EA-18G Growler, airborne early warning and control platforms such as the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, and various rotary-wing assets for anti-submarine warfare and logistics support. The integration of the F-35C provides enhanced capabilities in stealth, situational awareness, and networked operations, complementing the existing air wing.
The Carl Vinson is equipped with a range of defensive systems to protect against aerial and missile threats. These include the Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS), RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles (RAM), and electronic warfare suites. The ship operates as the core of a Carrier Strike Group (CSG), accompanied by cruisers, destroyers, and submarines, allowing it to conduct operations across a range of mission profiles including deterrence, maritime security, power projection, and humanitarian assistance.
Blow it out of the sky.. that’s the only thing potin knows. Strength!
Why would they do that when the Orange shit gibbon so desperately wants to be Putins best friend, so much so that he is willing to sell Ukraine out??
Sadly the military structures and its sane leadership is still playing out the game of supporting our allies, the message that they are changing sides hasn’t quite yet filtered down from Hegseth no doubt. I feel for them contemplating whether in a year or two they will be doing cooperative joint operations under a Russian Admiral barking Putin’s orders from his rustbucket. Not seeming quite the ludicrous proposition it did even a year ago.
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“Orange Shit Gibbon!” What a wonderfully apt description except that those things are quite intelligent!
Apologies to SITS – my reply was clearly meant for BM.
Please seek help for you Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Prefer if he dropped dead tbh…
The only ones suffering that are the deranged MAGA morons who spit feathers and get triggered about any hint of criticism of Trump.
there always are ongoing back channels talk between the u.s and Russia. most of what is discussed will never be disclosed. i believe trump would sell his allies just to get
Love you Trump haters……still fuming he won….don’t worry only 4 more years of economic growth and better conditions for American workers and families….cheer up
Your economy isn’t growing…🤡
and you are? apart from a vulgar idiot?
Your depiction of Trump shows your level of intelligence and mentioning nazi Ukraine as something to “give up” also shows that you support Stepan Bandera inspired Ukrainian government. Look au Stepan Bandera. He’s a WWII war criminal and an Adolf Hitler collaborator. It is his ideals that Ukrainian government follows. Look at the uniforms with the Third Reich symbols their soldiers wear. So you support nazis….
it’s not just trump, his nodding dog vance is just as oily and boasts and arrogance to match his boss
It’s quiet clear that Russia has already taken full control of the white house, and has already won. I really don’t get what Putin has over trump considering the number of stories that have come out about trump without impacting him, but it’s clear Putin has something.
Please show by example how Putin has taken control over the White House. You and your Democrats have already tried spinning the fake Russian collusion matter. Everyone knows it’s BS. Proven in court. But you and your Elon Musk/Trump hating crowd keeps spereading this lunacy. Get help from a professional mental health doctor.
trum wants a bigger U..S.A it’s clear he has the same Lebensraum that a previous megalomaniac had. this’ new America has a sinister look about it. trump and vanced are a toxic mix.
he’ll sell Europe out if he could spin political capital from it. I think it’s time to establish a European defence force and organisation that will marginalis the arrogance of America towards their alleged biggest allies=customers,😁 trump is playi.riskwith European nations believing that he had all the important cards he doesn’t and I would like to see the U.K give notice to the tangerine halfwit notice to return the Norfolk airbases to the U. I DON’T like the American arrogance towards us and other European countries, and I think it’s time to show themnat we do not trust them and that the ‘special relat’ isn’t as special as the Americans think that it is.
What an ignorant stupid comment.
thank you for your well phrased vullshir
trum wants a bigger U..S.A it’s clear he has the same Lebensraum that a previous megalomaniac had. this’ new America has a sinister look about it. trump and vanced are a toxic mix.
And you are what other than a fool who’s interested in the U.K defence on Facebook you’ve never served and your are an obnoxious fool
iit goes without saying that one of these days the Reckless behaviour of the russian air force will result in a major incident. We’ve had numerous examples of this kind of behaviour before and became NATO are a professional organisation we haven’t shot one down yet.
I am sure these media articles are written to test the people with selective hearing and reading. Looking at the comments, people don’t seem to understand that any country can fly above intinternational sea, same as how America is sailing in south china sea.
Why would someone think it’s only allowed for America only and when any other country do the same it’s is a viviolation of something. What an entitled mindset is being created in the western society.
This is the contradiction, while the US armed forces are continuing to pursue re-assurance exercises with allies its political Masters are at best contradictory and at worst undermining those alliances and their own military and I feel sorry for US personnel, no doubt feeling unsupported in the middle not really knowing what their true role actually is and on occasion even being essentially taunted by Russian assets with new vigour even where they are essentially gnats against an elephant. Talk about grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory for the ego of one man. But a confused military is essentially a weakened military, especially when their commanders in chief are playing footsie with those actually mocking and testing the and putting economic concerns and profit for their oligarchs before the wellbeing of their armed forces. May appear minor presently but who knows where this is headed
iit goes without saying that one of these days the Reckless behaviour of the russian air force will result in a major incident. We’ve had numerous examples of this kind of behaviour before and became NATO are a professional organisation we haven’t shot one down yet.
This does show the true insanity of the present MAGA foreign policy, Russia is the Enemy of the U.S. and an ally of china all that is happening at present is the US is stripping away its core and most powerful allies ( the European democracies have 23% of the worlds wealth) and strengthening one of its strategic enemies ( Russia ) which Co incidentally is a friend and ally of the one nation that is very much assessing when it’s optimal time to go to war with the U.S. is..that Russia is also a pacific power, next door to its friend china and right next door to US territories is even worse..at present a U.S. worse case is that it ends up having an indo pacific war to strategic and political exhaust with both china and Russia and the Europeans just go….shame.
There is only one country that is looking to wage war everywhere in the world ant that is the US, THEY HAVE BEEN DOING SO SINCE THE END OF WW2. The US is not run by the Trump Admin nor was it run by the Biden admin; it is run by the same people that own your Federal Reserve and are the major shareholders of your Pharmaceutical, Defence.Media, Banking and Chemical conglomerates as well as being the ones that finance the elections of your Senators and Congressman. Therefore this elected people will carry out the wishes of their masters that got them elected not that of the people that voted them in.
Russia v China 1960s, Russia v Afghanistan, Russia v UKR, China v S Korea/UN, China v India, China v Vietnam, China v Tibet, Indo-Pakistani wars, Arab-Israeli wars, Falklands war, Iraq-Iran war etc etc. Loads of territoprial wars since WW2. USA have a lot of form but by no means the “only” one & such rhetoric is common to Russian/Chinese properganda. Mind you, the Orange MAGA-lomaniac threatening Mexico, Greenland & Canada is criminal insanity in high office. Maybe he picked it up from Putin.
Wrong but never mind eh!
thank you for your well phrased rubbish proving that you are just a troll on here
get back into the trainspotting sites you troll
Assume this Russian will be buzzing the PoW very soon. I wonder what the PoW & her escorts will do about it. Intercept & monitor I assume.
Russian jets buzzed HMS Queen Elizabeth in 2021. Which, judging from the other comments here, was most likely Trump’s fault too.
iit goes without saying that one of these days the Reckless behaviour of the russian air force will result in a major incident. We’ve had numerous examples of this kind of behaviour before and became NATO are a professional organisation we haven’t shot one down yet.
I’d like to think that a Daring was nearby and this time, fried their electronics.
That’s just Putin letting Trump know he his in charge!
Just like Putin showing Boris Johnson who was in charge when Russian jets buzzed the HMS Queen Elizabeth in 2021.
Slight difference. Tkme was when US Warships were quite aggressive about protecting their airspace – shot down an Airliner once as I recall. (Iranian?)
Probably arranged to motivate the troops.
Bomb the ship.
Listen to some of you deluded imbeciles on here
Slating Trump all he is asking for is peace and calling all the others out for not pulling their weight or paying their fair share
But you’re to influenced by the bbc or cbs news to think for yourselves you sad sad individuals
Threatening 3 countries with invasion, 2 of them allies, that’s asking for peace? 🤣 You aren’t deluded though, as an American it’s obviously just old fashioned dumb🤡
Peace?
He is threatening to annex Canada… Which would (if he followed through) cause a very odd and dangerous conflict between NATO and the US as I imagine Canada would invoke article 5… Not to mention that Canada being one of the UKs closest allies and shares a head of state with us means that we would be at war with the US!
He is threatening Greenland with annexation… Which would (if he followed through) cause a very odd and dangerous conflict between NATO and the US as I imagine Denmark would invoke article 5..
He has threatened to commit genocide by clearing Gaza of Palestinians and turning into a trump resort… Which would cause an all out war in the middle east…
He is threatening to give Ukraine to Russia which will potentially cause a war in Europe and also potentially leave the door open for China to attack Taiwan…
He is having innocent people arrested in the streets of the US and being shipped to concentration camps…
He is waging economic war on Americas closest allies
He has insulted Americas closest allies
He is ignoring the US constitution
He is threatening to collapse five eyes intelligence network which will have serious consequences for the security of not only the US but the whole western world
All while pandering to mass murdering dictators.
Yep… Peace is what he wants….
He is a psychotic narcissistic idiot.
He has made of time magazine covers of himself along with making himself number one golfer at all his golf courses…
Much truth in your comment but it seems to me that he is being rather successful in keeping below the horizon the really big elephant in the US back room, the economy which according to some is going down the tubes at an exponential rate.
Our below YOP standard leadership team have compounded our financial problems but as Trump keeps saying America is the best and they certainly are in debt creation.
1. “He’s threatening to annex Canada.”
Are you serious? This isn’t Red Dead Redemption: Presidential Edition. Trump made zero credible threats to annex Canada. If you’re pulling your intel from Twitter satire accounts or late-night comedians, at least admit it so we know what level we’re playing on.
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2. “Threatening Greenland with annexation.”
He suggested buying Greenland. You know — like the U.S. bought Alaska, Louisiana, and the Virgin Islands. It was a strategic move, not a military invasion. Denmark said no. It ended there. If a real estate proposal triggers your WWIII alarm, maybe international politics isn’t your lane.
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3. “Genocide in Gaza to build a Trump resort.”
Wow. You just went full-on conspiracy theorist here. That claim isn’t just false — it’s embarrassing. There’s zero evidence of Trump saying anything remotely like this. If you’re inventing genocide to score political points, you’re not morally outraged — you’re morally bankrupt.
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4. “Giving Ukraine to Russia.”
Trump said he’d end the war, not hand over a country. He’d use leverage and negotiation — the same thing every president claims to do. But sure, let’s ignore nuance and pretend he’s personally delivering Kyiv to Putin on a gold-plated golf cart. That’s definitely how geopolitics works… in your imagination.
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5. “Concentration camps in the U.S.”
And now we’ve crossed into tinfoil-hat territory. The idea that Trump is rounding up innocent people and shipping them off to “concentration camps” is not only completely false — it’s offensive to actual victims of real atrocities. Stop weaponizing trauma for political theater.
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6. “Waging economic war on allies.”
Tariffs and tough trade negotiations aren’t acts of war — they’re how nations protect their industries. Trump pressured countries to pay their fair share in NATO and got results. If asking allies to stop freeloading hurts your feelings, that says more about you than him.
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7. “Insulting America’s allies.”
You mean he called out freeloaders and said what most leaders were thinking but too scared to say? Trump’s not rude — he’s just not pretending. Maybe if other leaders had his spine, NATO wouldn’t need the U.S. to carry the weight every single time.
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8. “Ignoring the Constitution.”
This one’s rich. Trump’s been sued, challenged, and investigated more than any other modern president. You know what that proves? The Constitution is working — checks and balances are in place. You screaming “dictator” while the system clearly restrains him makes you sound hysterical, not informed.
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9. “Collapsing Five Eyes.”
Let me guess, another thing you read in a Reddit thread? There’s been zero indication that Trump is dismantling the Five Eyes intelligence alliance. He criticized leaks and bad actors — which, frankly, every president has done. But collapsing the alliance? Only in your fan fiction.
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10. “Pandering to dictators.”
You mean talking to our enemies instead of blindly bombing them? Diplomatic engagement isn’t the same as submission. Ever heard of Nixon and China? Or Reagan and Gorbachev? But nah, keep calling peace talks “pandering” and pretend you understand diplomacy.
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11. “Psychotic narcissistic idiot.”
Classic playground insult. When you run out of facts, just throw labels, right? Here’s the truth: he built a billion-dollar brand, became president against every odd, and still has millions hanging on his every word. If that’s your definition of an idiot, what does that make you?
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12. “Fake Time covers and golf scores.”
This is your grand finale? A joke Time cover and some golf bragging? That’s the best you’ve got? If inflated golf scores threaten democracy in your eyes, I’m guessing you didn’t survive high school gym class without filing a trauma report.
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In summary:
You came swinging with wild accusations, conspiracy theories, and emotional outbursts — and walked straight into a wall of facts. If you’re going to attack someone, at least bring something grounded in reality. Otherwise, you just end up looking like a clown trying to debate a chess master with finger paints.
Do better.
Wall of textual diarrhoea as usual from Mike the Moron 💩
Righttrash arse-lickers & abject toadies of the Merkins just can’t help making themselves look even more stupid than their Mango Messiah 🤡🤣
Every time you post you confirm to all you are rather limited on intelligence and confidence. Get out more, buy a new tank top, wipe the food from your lips, wash the greasy hair and get on a dating website! See, your welfare is of concern to me!
A Russian troll or a useful idiot.
You Trumptards wouldn’t know a fact if it slapped you in the face.
You just dent any criticism of or wrongdoings by your orange god.
Basically a cult.
Deny, not dent.
NYTimes article “How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious”
A classic US moron. The words came from the man’s very own mouth on multiple occasions yet still you deny it. Fake news!!! As the orange turd would say.
Pretty fair and comprehensive reply 👍
Comprehensive maybe, but fair? Far from it. Pretty much everything he’s said is a lie, from the Trump administration countinousuly referring to Canada as the 51st state and outright saying they wouldn’t rule out military force in Greenland, to ignoring the “economic” bit of “economic war” to the complete lie about Trump not expanding Guantanamo to be used as a “detention centre.”
Dern mate can’t reply directly anymore which is a shame, but my perception of what Trump says and means is maybe bit as literal as some! I don’t see anyone being taken to concentration camps etc! But Trump is saying and doing what most of us wish our elected head sheds would do, and wether we like it or not, or even agree, he is putting the US first as he said he would. Is he disrupting things to a large degree yes, is he forcing Europe and the rest of NATO to take stock and get a grip, he is mate.
Do I like him or trust him, not really, but while he says things which to him are literal, he still has enough grown ups around him to keep him in check to a certain degree. Mike was giving his interpretation of the Orange man’s statements and we will all see what we want to believe on our designated echo chamber! Cheers mate 👍
Why is he bitching at the UK then? When they spend the agreed amount as do every nation except 3. Why is the only nation to invoke article 5 calling out the other NATO countries for not helping the US? Why is he complaining about Zelensky when Putin has been invading Ukraine for 20y. Offering a ceasfire and then invading bit more. Why has he not asked Putin to leave Ukraine a sovereign territory. Why does Russia continually break their promises.
Sadly you’re two steps in front of intelligence and in race you’ll always win!
and you are? calling people out ? those with the special relationship apart from a vulgar idiot? the nations that keeps larg swathes of Americans industries by opting to buy vastly and deliberately overpriced goods. America is losing its influence all over the globe, because nobody likes or trusts them anymore
the only paying is being done by nations blowing all their budgets on overpriced American goods.
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I’m amazed they got so close. I doubt the Russians would let our planes so close to their carrier. Not that we’d want to given how much black smoke it belches out. Not that it leaves Portsmouth anymore either.
That should say port but my predictive changed it quite amusingly to the home of the RN!
They don’t need to buzz the carrier, just have Putin call his plaything trump and I’m sure trump will happily give the carrier to Russia, claiming it’s a great deal for the US.
This site is a real cradle of love lately.
We’re being betrayed by Trump. Most of us have been slating the run down of UK forces for decades. No matter how diplomatic HMG is, Trump is stabbing allies in the back & maniacally endangering democracy in the US. All the while condoning Putins agenda & scrapping US cyber defences that dealt with Russian misinformation.
You,ve the enemy inside, his name is Mohamed Starmer, with 2 islamic mayors in the 2 main cities, soon you,ll be the anglo caliphate. Enjoy it.
In 20 years you will have not to worry about Russia but to pray to Allah in a mosque looking to Mecca.
The confederacy has finally won.