Posted on 07/21/2024 7:17:17 AM PDT by McGruff
Russia said Sunday it scrambled fighter jets to intercept two U.S. military long-range bomber aircraft that approached the Russian border over the Barents Sea in the Arctic.
“The crews of the Russian fighters identified the aerial target as a pair of U.S. Air Force B-52H strategic bombers,” Moscow’s defense ministry wrote on the social media platform Telegram, specifying that the planes scrambled were MiG-29 and MiG-31 fighters.
“As the Russian fighters approached, the U.S. strategic bombers turned away from the State Border of the Russian Federation,” the ministry said.
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Apologies. Sometimes my sarcasm isn’t so obvious, and I failed to tag it.
That stated, I think you may now see my point.
And as to “...may lead to Russia concluding that wider war is inevitable. “...
...THAT was my point of “effective,” to be patently clear.
Did they scramble both of ‘em?
No i got it :). I just the opportunity it offered to make a point that in the US you have these old men who still want to deal with Russia as if the cold war is still going but the world has moved on, technology has changed. But i don’t think any other country is going to play cold war/proxy war with the US. I think most of the world recognizes what the US did in the past as a thing not desired; a world of managed war and set enemies you never actually have to fight.
Same page, FRiend ;-)
My first thought was, what about those Chinese balloons that were allowed to fly over much of the country?
We've lost almost 100,000 KIA
in the battles of that continuing war.
It isn't, and never was "Cold."
Dizzam you am right I know.
The Soviet Union still existed back then.
When the Soviet Union fell, that was curtailed for a while.
I remember the NAF overseas had an ongoing contest of the best photograph of Russian crewmembers and would blow them up to frame for the hallways of the facility. They would wave, glare or stare at the P3 crews.
Ironic that the facility our interceptors flew from has a Russian girl’s name.
“When the Soviet Union fell, that was curtailed for a while.”
The old Soviet Union fell in 1991. And their government and military work was in disarray. But it was only a short time. But prior, The ritual was played out thousands of times between 1961 and 1991 as US and Canadian air defense fighters scrambled to engage long-range Soviet bombers and reconnaissance aircraft on the periphery of North American airspace. I was friends with a couple of pilots from the CAC that rotated out there every couple of months. NWADS still is in operation today and in use. Their building is right across the street from the golf course at what was earlier McChord AFB now part of JBLM.
The Soviet Air Defense Force didn’t turn into a piece of the Russian Military Forces until 1998. But during the years beweeen the fall and the refigeration the what was left flew. The VVS participated in the First Chechen War (1994–1996) and the Second Chechen War (1999–2002). And the flyovers continued over the Bering Sea. And their hellos to us slowed but did not stop. One such incident is his in 2006:
https://www.norad.mil/Newsroom/Article/578117/norad-intercepts-russian-aircraft/
They still play this game of chicken today.
wy69
“Ironic that the facility our interceptors flew from has a Russian girl’s name.”
And when I was there there were a lot of Russian Amereican citizens. And they loved Oly beer. Didn’t drink with much.
wy69
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