On September 13, 1987, a P-3B anti-submarine patrol aircraft of the Norwegian Air Force was on a reconnaissance mission off the Coast of the Soviet Union when it encountered a new Soviet fighter jet in the sky over the Barents Sea. The Soviet fighter jet, on its third approach to the P-3B, passed under the right wing of the P-3B at a high speed, with its vertical tail on the no. 1 engine on the right side of the P-3B. The P-3B almost crashed with a scalpel gash, while the Soviet jet quickly returned due to a damaged tail. It was the "Barents Sea Air Scalpel" incident of the Cold War, the mysterious Soviet fighter jet that became known as the Su-27, and the conflict is remembered in history as the most famous example of a Soviet air strike.

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