[Ted]

What are they thinking?...

[In veno, veritas]

What are they thinking? Knock down our plane, steal our intelligence, then demand to be payed for it.

[DearAbby]

There not!!!!!!!!!!!! That would have been a very stupid move on the part of the Russian Pilot. We would have shot him down in a blaze of gunfire.

[griffin]

Is not 'locking on' a std intimidation tactic in air to air intercepts?? I'm not so sure this isn't just hype...

[ozzymandus]

I was under the impression that this radar lock game is common practice for both sides, but I'm not an expert. I know we bomb Iraqi radar sites that lock on our patrol planes over the "no fly zone", but that's because the Iraqis are forbidden to do so.

[longshadow]

Russians threaten US P-3 jet

The headline is inaccurate. The P-3 is a turboprop (as in "propeller driven") aircraft.

[Sword_Svalbardt]

The cold war is over, just ask a democratische stazi official, they'll tell you. Better yet put Tom Daschle in one when it gets spanked. Like he knows what its like to risk your life. The Mig 31 Foxhound is a nice plane, anything can splash a P-3. Shadesof Hainan...didn't the Rusky's and the Chinese sign an agreement recently? Hmmm?

[zog]

--been wondering this since the chinese incident. Is there really any practical reason why any US warbird DOESN'T have a few missiles hanging under the wings? really? Is it really that much of a weight loss compared to the added security? How would these foreign fighter pilots like it when they get "locked on to" themselves? might keep them a scoosh farther away you would think.

[ContentiousObjector]

Yeah,

and if some Russian IL-76's showed up snooping on some of our exercises I am sure we would send them a fruit basket.

[dennisw]

What are they thinking?.........

Thinking that we are a pu**y nation. A bunch of comfort obsessed fools who take orders for the president of Mexico and tolerate being invaded by Mexico and other 3rd world pest nations. A bunch of fools that knuckled under when China took our recon plane.........knuckled under for the almighty buck.........for the lopsided China trade that allows China to pile up huge surpluses to better build their military machine

[First_Salute]

September 10, 2002

[Junior]

It's all part of the game.

[Orion78]

PING!