Latest on our top story. Jon, the 11 russian chinese warships near alaska represent the largest combined armada from both countries to ever sail so close to the United States and history. The pentagon says there is no interaction within the u. S. Military assets. General keane spoke earlier offer the following warning progress china has considerably warships vent our navy does they have more airplanes, they have more missiles we have got to catch up we have to move with a sense of urgency. Quickly u. S. Navy dispatch for warships in a pa Reconnaissance Plane to shatter the russian and chinese Flotilla Course the u. S. Military routinely does the same thing to both russia and china sailing warships and sending spy planes near both countries while keeping just outside territorial waters but we call that chinese Fighter Jet Buzz the u. S. Air force wsrc 135 Reconnaissance Plane in the South China Sea back in may wasnt exactly sightseeing russians and chinese are just returning the favor w
this shows our navy is going to be scrambling to keep up with the combined capabilities of china and russia we have seen them exercise aircraft together but this is a really step up in their military capability and we need to be sure to deter and contain. jon: it s my understanding last time there s a show of force is similar to this maybe not this big, but off the aleutian coast the u.s. answered with one coast guard cutter. so that u.s. is taking this a little more seriously than before. right and to be fair it s a very capable high seas a coast guard cutter but i will tell you in addition to those destroyers guarantee you they were probably some drones, probably submarine activity as wellin of course we can watch us pretty closely from alaska do not forget the pa is a huge radar surveillance train plane awash in tracking chips this security message this will china who will not talk to our pentagon but their happiness on