Russian bombers test UK patience again

Herald Sun ^ | July 20, 2007 | Wojciech Moskwa

[Hazwaste]

I thought the CF100 had an air intake in the nose(?). I dunno.

[Hazwaste]

Nevermind...I’m thinking of the F-100 Super Sabre.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Why are the Russians playing these games?

[britemp]

Time we brought our English-Electric Lightnings back out of mothballs to intercept these things. Introduced in 1960, they are still the fastest climbing fighter ever at 50,000ft per minute and for those who think the F22 is great because it can 'supercruise' - the Lightning could do that in 1960 and could fly high and fast enough to intercept U2's! :0

[Thunder90]

Ping

[Thunder90]

You mean fighters equipped with Plasma Stealth...

[nw_arizona_granny]

Bump.

[FreedomCalls]

Time we brought our English-Electric Lightnings back out of mothballs

I saw one at an airshow at Mildenhall a few years back, and boy were those things LOUD! The LOUDEST plane I've ever heard. Did I tell you how LOUD they were? Boy, were they ever LOUD.

[B-Chan]

Old photo. That’s an RCAF CF-101 Voodoo interceptor.

[B-Chan]

Sure looks like a B-1A...

[B-Chan]

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[kalee]

ping

[knyteflyte3]

[M. Espinola]

Putin & his KGB thugs are testing & probing the response of Gordon Brown. This calculated intrusion into British air space with long range bomber no less, is typical Soviet tactics.

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[sukhoi-30mki]

The Lightening had terrible range if you wanted to intercept bombers & could carry around 2 air to air missiles.

[Winniesboy]

Perfect for the job it was designed for, however. Scramble; straight up; find your Bear or Bison in minutes over the North Sea; do the business; straight down; coffeecupful of fuel left; your cup of coffee still warm in the mess.

[Tommyjo]

That is a Tu-142 Bear J of the Russian Navy. The Bears involved in the flights last week were Tu-95MS Bear Hs.

[Tommyjo]

No Lightnings in mothballs. Only ones in private hands witha few airframes flying. The Lightnings climb records have long since been overtaken.

[Tommyjo]

Nothing went into UK airspace. The Russians announce a time window to NATO for these out of area flights. It is all part of the deconfliction. Russia and NATO still have laison offices. The have been doing this for quite some considerable time now. Last year the Russians went over to the US/Canadian ADIZs at the culmination of an announced strategic exercise.

During 2001 two Tu-160s went halway down the UK Eastern coastline. The Russians had announced their intentions and put a 4 to 5 day timeline on the flights.

Don’t believe everything you read in the news.

[LibertyRocks]

Thank you so much for the ping Lizol.
It seems Putin is really itching for a confrontation...

Ping for some others who may be interested and have not seen this yet...

TWO Russian Tu-95 bombers made unusually long sorties over the North Sea yesterday, forcing both Norway and Britain to scramble fighter jets to follow the Russian planes, Norway's armed forces said.