Sheeeeeet - no kidding- we'd have Bear reconnaissance aircraft, Backfire bombers, every broken Soviet can out there chasing us around for 2 weeks - these freaking pearl clutchers really make me laugh. LOL
I was a Marine on a troop transport of some sort off the coast of California during an exercise. We were bored so we were hanging out on the fantail watching a soviet intelligence ship who was following us. All of the sudden the Soviet ship accelerated and took a hard starboard right through our formation. The sailors were going ape shit. And if that was not enough the Soviet flipped a you turn and shoot through our formation from the port side. We found it entertaining.
Exactly. The Soviets had vessels looking at us anytime they could get in range to see us. Bridges filled with binocular eyes looking at you.