Originally Posted by Otterbox

Nope, not really at all. This really isn't unexpected or unusual when you look at how our interactions have been with the Russians in recent history.

There was virtually no danger of those aircraft getting shot down by the ship. Foreign powers attempt to force overreactions from our crews all the time (aka charge the ships in an attempt to get it to shoot at them so the ship gets pulled from theater and were too ashamed politically to send a replacement). Is it annoying? Yes. Is it exciting? Yes but a lot of our training and qualifications these days goes into when to not shoot a guy, and these incidents were one of those times. Other countries do this to us all of the time because they know how restrained our reactions will be.

Makes good for CNN headlines though.