Russian Fighters Intercept U.S. Reconnaissance Planes over Black Sea

Air Force Magazine ^ | 26 June 2020 | Brian W. Everstine

[Alas Babylon!]

I know we get a lot of stories here about Russian Bear Bombers flying off our coasts, but guess what?

WE do it back!

[2banana]

Good training flights

[Alas Babylon!]

Two aircraft in my USAF career I have flown on:

The RC-135 and KC-135.

The RC is special. Lots of rivets in that joint.

[HangnJudge]

[dfwgator]

Russia is not our enemy.

[Azeem]

“Two aircraft in my USAF career I have flown on”

I know them well. The job was on the RC-135 but the trips home was on the KC-135. I wonder if the USAF finally retired the RC-135 with the bent airframe from sliding off the runway.

[HangnJudge]

... Russia is not our enemy.
Nations spy on friends all the time however

[dfwgator]

Trust, but verify.

[CharleysPride]

Our carrot-stick approach is clearly not working.

The Russians put a bounty on US troops, Putin is invited to the G-8.

Maybe they think this will get him a weekend at MAL

[tenger]

#metoo.

just thinking today about the thrill of watching the refueling of our bird from the cockpit and later from the boom of the tanker.

Me and My RC.

[moovova]

Where’s Maverick when you need him?

(No...not McCain.)

[BradyLS]

How many rivets are there in the RC-135?

[ASA Vet]

The best flight I ever hitched was on a SAC KC-135 out of Hickam to Kadena. The flight chief allowed me to go down into the refuelers pit. I fell asleep on the nice pad.

[libertylover]

I worked on both of them at Offutt, probably that exact tail number for the RC, but never flew on either of them.

[ASA Vet]

One per air craft.

[DesertRhino]

That story about bounty came from the intelligence Community. You know, the same guys who told us Trump is a Russian asset, and Flynn was a Russian spy. It was probably neocon BS.

[McGruff]

an Su-30 fighter from the country’s Southern Military District responded, and “approached from a safe distance...

Russians going soft on us? Pilot was probably reassigned to the Siberian air base.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Not our “friends,” either.

[dfwgator]

There are no “friends”, only interests.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Exactly. But interms of foreign policy, that assumes “diplomats” who put our interests first, which I think we can agree is no longer automatically the case. Which argues for a much less term interventionist foreign policy.

Curious about your opinion about moving US bases from Germany to Poland. Do you think that will be a provocation to the Russians? And if so, is it a worthwhile one?