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American fighter jets have been scrambled after Russian bombers buzzed a US aircraft carrier in the Western Pacific.
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The alert was sparked when two TU-95 Bear bombers flew within 500 miles of the USS Nimitz.
Four American FA-18 fighters were scrambled and tracked the strategic bombers.
One of the Russian planes remained around 50 miles away, but the other buzzed the carrier twice at an altitude of 2,000ft.
Sky's Ian Woods said incidents like these were common in the Cold War, but now highlighted frostier US-Russia relations.
Woods, who is in Washington, added: "It's an incident that happened on Saturday, but it's only just been reported.
"Four Russian TU-95 bombers had been tracked by US officials taking off from their _base_ in eastern Russia and flew close to Japan, even encroaching into Japanese air space on one occasion.
"Then two of them broke off and started heading into the Western Pacific, where the USS Nimitz was on patrol.
"When the bombers got to within 500 miles, four FA-18 fighters were scrambled.
"Two of them tracked one of the bombers as it hovered 50 miles away, but one bomber got a much, much closer look.
"It came to within 2,000ft, buzzing it twice before heading back into its own airspace."
The incident comes amid heightened tensions between the US and Russia over President Bush's plans for a missile defence system _base_d in Poland and the Czech Republic.
It is the first time Russian Tupolevs have flown over or interacted with a US carrier in four years.
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