News Release: NORAD intercepts Russian aircraft

DND/Canadian Forces ^ | 2006-09-29 | (press release)

[Clive]

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[MikefromOhio]

Glad that they are still watching.

One thing, I'm guessina "CF-18" stands for Candaian F-18. Am I right?

Pray that this was just a mistake by the Russian pilots....

[Lurker]

Bear Bombers? Those things still fly?

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[Velveeta]

Another ping.
Busy day.
sigh

[billorites]

Congratulations to the Russians for being able to launch a flight of Bears.

[RKV]

Typical behavior to test our response.

[MikefromOhio]

I don't know...

I wouldn't think they'd send some antiquated bombers to test us....

[KoRn]

Too much Vodka I guess.

[Jet Jaguar]

Good to see our guys are still ready for anything.

[driftdiver]

"Pray that this was just a mistake by the Russian pilots"

Doubt it, soemthing similiar happened a couple months ago.

[Zack Nguyen]

You're right - nothing new here. It is annoying, but the Russians just wanted to see what would happen.

[alfa6]

Right-o

Bear Picture on the way, I hope

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Daus]

Bear Bombers? Those things still fly?

Sure. About once a year for this excercise. :) I bet they were hoping to get a peak at the Raptors up there.

[MikefromOhio]

Nice...

mean lookin birds, that's for sure..

[arthurus]

Where did you get an old 1985 post? This is 2006? Oh my!

[alfa6]

Here we ga, a TU-95 Bear with a Tomcat escort

Found it faster than I thought :-)

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[penelopesire]

It's starting to look more and more like the Islamic puppet masters are China and Russia.

[Spktyr]

Ironically, the CF-18 has turned out to be a bit of a problem child for the Canadian air force. They rejected the US-standard avionics package and went with stuff made by other vendors, including Lucas.

I don't think I need to say any more.

[darkwing104]

One thing, I'm guessina "CF-18" stands for Candaian F-18. Am I right?

YepPray that this was just a mistake by the Russian pilots....

Training. SOS different year.