Wow, haven’t heard that one in a while...
Whats really funny...We always knew, practically a day in advance when the “bear” was coming to the “box”...
They’d zoom up to about as high as they could, turn on that “big bulge” radar and find our group with no problem...Make their “friendly flyover” of as many ships in the group as possible and head for “V” like they had a purpose...
They’d catch up to us again after our usual stop in “PI”...
No big secret, and if it didn’t happen, that made us nervous, because it meant something else was watching us...
I’ve got some great pics of TU’s up close and personal from some guys I know...”Absolut”-ly some of the funniest stuff I’ve ever seen...
This is a Russian re-run of their glorious(?) long-range bomber flights of the 1960s-1990s. They made constant attempts to penetrate our air defenses but never got very far. It actually worked well for us. Our interceptors did their jobs. We gathered a lot of intel on their equipment and operations. Our F-16s and other aircraft capabilities can make appetizers of Russia’s aging bombers. Thanks to Ragean, their military degenerated. Personnel were not paid, maintenance wasn’t performed and fuel supplies were extremely short. The Russian bogeyman wasn’t scary anymore.
Putin is living in the past. Relax folks.