When I was on the JFK back in the Seventies, we always had at least one (Maybe two?) Tomcats tied down right on the Cat when we were crossing the Atlantic. I did see a Bear get close enough for a visual flyby once.
Posted on 10/18/2022 5:54:40 PM PDT by bitt
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Maybe the pilots wanted asylum?
“Prior to that, the United States observed Russian military aircraft flying into the ADIZ three times between Aug. 8 and Aug. 10.”
August 9th, 1945 was Nagasaki. Do Russians like anniversaries like Muslims do?
We do it, they do it, pretty soon the chinese will give it a try.
Yawn....this is a common occurrence and not newsworthy.
So...nothing burger.
Asylum from what? I could believe it if they were Americans near the Russian airspace.
Agreed...
It wreaks of incitement, for our populace’s consumption.
And has been so for decades. This is, after all, an aircraft that has been around in the role of strategic bomber since the early 1950s, like the B-52.
When I was on the JFK back in the Seventies, we always had at least one (Maybe two?) Tomcats tied down right on the Cat when we were crossing the Atlantic. I did see a Bear get close enough for a visual flyby once.
I don’t know how common now, but it was very common back in the Seventies IIRC.
Force them down.....
Stop the stupid air force pissing contests.
Send the message.... We don’t know what happened to your patrols, but your pilots are requesting asylum.
Please send canned fish and vodka...
Interceptors were F106 Delta Wings if I remember correctly. Used to watch the “trespassing Bombers” and the Interceptors on the Radar Scopes in the Site (Campion AFS, AK) Data Center.
The “Bears” of course had always left U.S. airspace by the time the interceptors arrived. I think the Russians and the Americans both knew all the steps of this “Dance” and both got to use it as training exercises.
Somewhere there are photos of the Interceptors of that era flying alongside the Russian Bombers. Just like the photo posted in this thread.
Old Times.
My question is why? Why now? training for the invasion of Alaska? Curious.
Yes, old times indeed!
I read an article some years ago where an American fighter intercepted and escorted a Bear, took pictures, and when they were developing the pictures in intelligence later, they noticed something odd in one of the observation bubbles on the side of the fuselage.
When they blew it up, it was a grinning Russian aircrewman holding up a bottle of Coke posing for the camera...:)
There was something I found quite appealing about that.
And...thank you for your service, FRiend...
I guess that is determined by what you consider a threat.
I understand that the hardest part of intercepting a TU-95 is the noise.
Asylum from living in a dead end country like the Russian federation
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