Pinch of salt needed here, but unsubstantiated comment from 2 people say the Bear’s flew over UK land.
MoD sticking with their previous comments.
There is a report that the bombers were inland!
That was funny, that movie “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russians_Are_Coming,_the_Russians_Are_Coming
Very Dark Times indeed.
As I noted on the other thread about this, which is more telling??
That a Russian Bomber supposedly flew over UK Territory?
Or that the UK Military has declined so far that they couldn’t intercept a 50 yr-old prop plane, before it did??
Well, since the Russian economy is going down the crapper, Putin has to do SOMETHING to keep their spirits up....
Per David Cameron.....”At no time did they enter into UK airspace”.
Whats the problem here....oahole has negotiated a nuke reduction with the Ruskies so they were probably just carrying propaganda messages.
But are they Tu-95’s or the nearly identical Tu-142, which were originally built as anti-submarine platforms but in recent years became state-of-the-art Electronics Intelligence/Signals Intelligence (ELINT/SIGINT) planes like the RC-135’s flown by the USAF? The Russian AF has around 40 Tu-142’s in service, primarily as recon platforms to test Western defensive radar systems.