{"id":89171,"date":"2019-07-22T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89171"},"modified":"2019-07-22T10:48:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:48:04","slug":"venezuela-has-planes-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89171","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Has Planes, and&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now they&#8217;re chasing ours in open air space.<\/p>\n<p>Seems the Venezuelan military has been shadowing our planes in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/video\/2019\/07\/21\/venezuelan-su-30-flanker-shadowing-a-us-ep-3-aircraft\/\">https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/video\/2019\/07\/21\/venezuelan-su-30-flanker-shadowing-a-us-ep-3-aircraft\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article has a video of Venezuelan fighter jet shadowing a US EP-3 in international air space in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a second video from the Navy:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Venezuela SU-30 Flanker Aggressive Unsafe Distance from U.S. EP-3 Aries II - 1 of 4\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/08HT8TGMk_I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><template data-arve_cachetime=\"2026-01-13T03:16:53-05:00\" data-arve_iframe_src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/08HT8TGMk_I?feature=oembed\" data-arve_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=08HT8TGMk_I\" data-author_name=\"U.S. Navy\" data-author_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@USNavy\" data-height=\"281\" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-provider_name=\"YouTube\" data-provider_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" data-thumbnail_height=\"360\" data-thumbnail_url=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/08HT8TGMk_I\/hqdefault.jpg\" data-thumbnail_width=\"480\" data-title=\"Venezuela SU-30 Flanker Aggressive Unsafe Distance from U.S. EP-3 Aries II - 1 of 4\" data-type=\"video\" data-version=\"1.0\" data-width=\"500\" class=\"arve-data\"><\/template><\/p>\n<p>I had no idea that Venezuela had any SU-30s, never mind anyone who could fly them.. Aren\u2019t SU-30s Russian planes made by Sukhoi? (How do you pronounce that? Wait \u2013 never mind!) They seem an awful lot like copies of ours, or maybe they watch too many reruns of &#8220;Top Gun&#8221;.\u00a0 And what&#8217;s the plan there, anyway? Show off, or act like the Norks and start shooting at things in the air?<\/p>\n<p>Does this mean we have to start escorting commercial airliners with military planes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now they&#8217;re chasing ours in open air space. Seems the Venezuelan military has been shadowing &hellip; <a title=\"Venezuela Has Planes, and&#8230;.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89171\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Venezuela Has Planes, and&#8230;.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,387,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-international-affairs","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89172,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89171\/revisions\/89172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}