The dramatic moment RAF Typhoons intercepted Russian MiG fighters, spy planes and bombers [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | June 18, 2015 | Larisa Brown

[C19fan]

British warplanes scrambled to intercept nine Russian aircraft within hours after they flew menacingly close to the Baltic States in what was described as the biggest act of provocation since the Cold War. Moscow sent the world’s fastest supersonic fighter jet, along with spy planes and bombers to ‘snoop’ on Nato war games designed to send a ‘warning to Vladimir Putin’. A senior RAF source last night told the Daily Mail: ‘We’ve never had a period like this in living memory.’

[C19fan]

Putin playing with his toys. Among the planes he sent out were MIG-31s NATO codename Foxhounds. They have the same air frame as the infamous Mig-25 Foxbat but altered to intercept low flying bombers and strike aircraft. The Foxhounds can still get up to Mach 2.8 not quite Mach 3+ the Foxbat could achieve at the costs of destroying the engines. I guess Putin wanted to bring back some 70s nostalgia.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Interesting

[Blood of Tyrants]

I read that the Mig-25 had a steel skin because aluminum wouldn’t withstand the heat at Mach 3.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I read that the Mig-25 had a steel skin because aluminum wouldn’t withstand the heat at Mach 3.

And they probably couldn't work titanium well enough like we did on the SR-71.

[manc]

This was going on for decades, both sides do it.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Speaking of the SR-71, did you know that the CIA formed shell corporations for the purpose of buying the titanium used in the Blackbird from the USSR?

[ansel12]

Where have NATO nations been doing this to Russia for decades?

[Krosan]

Russian warplanes are blessed by the icon of St. Stalin.

They have gone truly insane by now.

[corkoman]

I love the look of all those props.

[SJSAMPLE]

So they made it heavier but got it to go faster?

[elcid1970]

Bozhe moi!

After Stalin destroyed all the churches, melted down the church bells, turned monasteries into prisons, sent the clergy to the GULAG (with a brief respite during WWII) and clamped Russia in the cold grip of atheism, the Orthodox Church turns him into a saint!!?

Proof if proof were needed that the Muscovite Church is but an arm of the Moscow regime, its historic role across the centuries.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Huge engines. I have heard that the engines were trashed after a Mach 3 run, too.

[manc]

I was based with NATO in the AMFL role on the northern flanks and it was happening then and still does.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Yep

[ansel12]

That sounds like something from my old NATO days during the Cold War with the no longer existing USSR.

It was non-responsive and doesn’t explain your defense of these dangerous Putin hostilities and your claims that we are doing it to them.

“”both sides do it””

Where have NATO nations been doing this to Russia for decades?

[manc]

northern flanks of NATO where I was, mainly north Norway.

[ansel12]

You aren’t going to answer the question are you?

Where are we doing this to the Russians?

[manc]

Again the northern flanks of NATO mainly from where I was.
That is where we have and still today do this.

[ansel12]

Doing what? Protecting Norwegian airspace from
Russian aggression like the Brits are protecting themselves in this article?

Being defensive?