So what? They send planes toward us to see how close they can get before we scramble. We do the same thing.
And it’s good long-range mission training.
And the B-52’s are trucks delivering cruise missiles to deployment points. They would never penetrate Russian air space. It is interesting that the Russians saw them coming. The Ukes disabled a couple of Russian long range radars that were completely useless for the war in Ukraine, but gave the Russians long range surveillance to the south, in the direction of Diego Garcia. They used Ukrainian made cruise missiles, but I wonder if that was at the request of the Pentagon.
Right. Tit for Tat…
And it’s good long-range mission training.
That was a Cold War thing. Why are we poking the Bear now? Don't answer, we already know.
“We do the same thing.”
And have for many years. While in the Alaskan Air Command, I spent some time at Galena Air Station in central Alaska and it was the home of a combat alert cell, or a CAC, in the mid 1980’s when I was there. It was one of a number of sites covering the Bering Sea air space like King Salmon, Clear, and Shymia based out of Elmendorf AFB. Galena was a small town, still there, along the Yukon and it has an airport that the CAC used. Anytime an aircraft approached or crossed “that line” as per the radar at Galena, or elsewhere, F-16’s, fully armed, would take over the airport for launch and go to intercept.
The sites are no longer there but radar is still on and most of it comes from the western airospace division (WADS) at what is now at Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM) in south Tacoma, Washington. So it still goes on, just a little more economic. And other means of patrol are used, also. It was part of a blanket of control that other military forces were part of. For Alaska, one was Adak, navy. Galena Air STation was originally activated in 1951.
wy69
“We do the same thing.”
And have for many years. While in the Alaskan Air Command, I spent some time at Galena Air Station in central Alaska and it was the home of a combat alert cell, or a CAC, in the mid 1980’s when I was there. It was one of a number of sites covering the Bering Sea air space like King Salmon, Clear, and Shymia based out of Elmendorf AFB. Galena was a small town, still there, along the Yukon and it has an airport that the CAC used. Anytime an aircraft approached or crossed “that line” as per the radar at Galena, or elsewhere, F-16’s, fully armed, would take over the airport for launch and go to intercept.
The sites are no longer there but radar is still on and most of it comes from the western airospace division (WADS) at what is now at Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM) in south Tacoma, Washington. So it still goes on, just a little more economic. And other means of patrol are used, also. It was part of a blanket of control that other military forces were part of. For Alaska, one was Adak, navy. Galena Air STation was originally activated in 1951.
wy69
Yes we do. This has been going on for decades.
My first thought was, what about those Chinese balloons that were allowed to fly over much of the country?