Posted on 10/06/2023 7:34:25 AM PDT by MarMema
In 1980 this was a daily (sometimes more than one a day) occurrence all around the USSR.
Not sure why panties are being bunched up over it today.
A P8 isn’t exactly a nuclear bomber, LOL.
How about the frequent approach of Russian Bears flying towards Great Britain?
That happens at least once a month.
Just because you don’t read much in English, doesn’t mean its not happening.
US aircraft approach Russian airspace and get the Russians to turn on their radars. The overwatching intel aircraft captures the electronic signature of that particular radar and the aircraft turns around and leaves.
They do it to us as well. All part of the game.
Maybe because the Russian media audience isn’t “the west”, and they’re pandering the idea that they’re surrounded by aggressive enemies that they need to be stronk to scare off?
You know, propaganda.
A P8 isn’t exactly a nuclear bomber, LOL.
The Cold War ended over 30 years ago so anybody into their mid 40s probably knows nothing about it. Most of those over 45 probably ignored the whole thing and have no idea what went on during the Cold War.
I may have fought it from underground in the Plains States but I have friends who flew F-15s and were stationed in Alaska. They spent a lot of their time performing long range intercepts of the Bear bombers and we were always briefed it was almost a daily occurrence.
As far as the P-8 not being a nuclear bomber; people nowadays, including here on FR, were trying to create rumors about that Marine F-35 carrying nuke, when they have no idea about any nuclear certified aircraft or what it entails to get them certified.
That's what the flight path of an electronic warfare plane on a collection mission looks like. If they're doing direction finding, they're shooting "lines of bearing" at the targeted transmitter every second or two while they're "wings level" in the racetrack pattern. The point where all those "LOBs" intersect is "the fix." So a single DF a/c on the move can get as precise a "fix" as several fixed ground intercept stations.
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