Yea that is pretty amazing. They probably saw them about 400 miles out and figured they'd crash before they got anywhere near Alaska. The scrambled the jets most likely because they thought they were lost and needed to get their bearings from someone who has GPS in the cockpit.
Yea that is pretty amazing. They probably saw them about 400 miles out and figured they'd crash before they got anywhere near Alaska. The scrambled the jets most likely because they thought they were lost and needed to get their bearings from someone who has GPS in the cockpit.==
Don't sell them short. They old but soi as those B-52 still flying too:). And those Tu-95 surely has thier own GPS type navigation. And they carry sort of newest cruise missiles which can fly 2000 miles more and pinpont the target.
All this was as for the demostration of the "russian strategic sword is far from rusty and easily could be unleashed" - citation for Russian TV commentator.