[tcrlaf]

What is more telling??

That a Russian Bomber flew into UK Airspace??

Or that the decline of the UK Military has become so bad, that they can’t intercept a 30 year old prop plane before it did?

[skeeter]

Its worse than that - the Bear first flew in 1952!

[varyouga]

I heard the Bears are as big as a blimp on radar

[WhiskeyX]

The Channel Dash, codenamed Operation Cerberus by the Germans,[a] was a major naval engagement during World War II in which a German Kriegsmarine squadron consisting of both Scharnhorst-class battleships, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen along with escorts, ran a British blockade and successfully sailed from Brest in Brittany to their home bases in Germany via the English Channel. On 11 February 1942, the Kriegsmarine '​s ships left Brest at 21:14 and escaped detection for more than 12 hours, approaching the Straits of Dover without discovery.[1] As the German ships passed through the straits and on into the North Sea, British armed forces intercepted them, and the Royal Air Force, the Fleet Air Arm and Coastal Artillery attacked. The attacks and bombardment were unsuccessful, and by 13 February all the Kriegsmarine '​s ships had completed their transit.[2] In support of the German naval operation, the Luftwaffe launched Operation Donnerkeil (Thunderbolt) to provide air superiority for the passage of the ships. The Channel Dash remains the only occasion since the Anglo-Dutch Wars that warships hostile to the United Kingdom have successfully traversed the English Channel.[citation Channel Dash - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Dash