WOLVERINE....
“I say let’s send the long range missiles for Ukraine to use and see what happens” said no sane person ever.
They have been doing it, pretty regularly, for about 60 years.
The TU-142 is a modified TU-95 Bear bomber used for maritime patrols.
The IL-38 is a rip-off the old US maritime patrol aircraft. First flight - 1960.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-38
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-142
Both would last seconds when going up against a Raptor, the latest birds used for intercept out of JBER.
Sure it wasn’t Santa practicing?
“minor incursion”
Thirty years ago Russia was so broke we were paying their nuclear weapons scientists so they wouldn’t go to Iran.
They didn’t even have gas money to fly their airforce.
McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I’ve come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.