Posted on 08/22/2007 10:50:33 AM PDT by Freeport
“Tupolev” They’re called ‘bears’ and the RAF escorts them out of the North Sea daily!
Dang. Everyone gets to post this article.
Prop bombers?........
Aviation ping...
Yeah, we know, but it's Elvis month.
It's Tupelo, honey!
This business of allowing “probing” of the air defenses is crazy. The policy should be to let them incur without challenge, then shoot them down without warning. Otherwise, they will be able to map out your air defense capabilities. If they are going to do it, it ought to COST.
Personally, I think a few Tu-’s KO’d would be a good thing... Just an opinion though...
The Tu 95 “Bear” has turbo prop engines and is a contemporary of the B-52.
We oughta sell them some........
Korean Air Lines Flight 007, also known as KAL 007 or KE007, was a Korean Air Lines civilian airliner shot down by Soviet jet interceptors on September 1, 1983 just west of Sakhalin island. 269 passengers and crew, including US congressman Lawrence McDonald, were aboard KAL 007; there were no survivors.
The Soviet Union stated it did not know the aircraft was civilian and suggested it had entered Soviet airspace as a deliberate provocation by the United States, the purpose being to test its military response capabilities, repeating the provocation of Korean Air Flight 902, also shot down by Soviet aircraft over the Kola Peninsula in 1978. The incident attracted a storm of protest from across the world, particularly from the United States.
Yep...sixty-year old technology that still works today as good as it did in the 1950s.
I like your reasoning, Watchman.
Yea, those "storms of protest" have really been effective in dealing with other countries.
Thing is they don't actually enter the airspace, just come close.
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PICTURES: RAF Typhoon intercepts Russian Tupolev Tu-95 bomber
Posted by Freeport
On News/Activism 08/22/2007 1:50:33 PM EDT · 12 replies · 516+ views
www.flightglobal.com ^ | 22/08/07 | Craig Hoyle
U.K. Scrambles Typhoon Jets to Shadow Russian Strategic Bomber
Posted by maquiladora
On News/Activism 08/22/2007 7:26:02 AM EDT · 25 replies · 636+ views
Euronews ^ | Aug. 22
UK Typhoons shadow Russian bomber
Posted by Caledonia2007
On News/Activism 08/21/2007 4:01:43 PM EDT · 52 replies · 1,185+ views
BBC ^ | Tuesday, 21 August 2007,
RAF Eurofighters Intercept Russian Bomber (Typhoon’s First Scramble)
Posted by zencat
On News/Activism 08/21/2007 3:51:14 PM EDT · 31 replies · 1,200+ views
UK Telegraph ^ | 08/21/2007 | Richard Holt
Stop, or I’ll say Stop again!!!
Spoken like a man with a 1000’ deep bunker or access to goobermint shelters.
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