cbressler1976
09-06-2007, 09:49 PM
Russia feels threatened, so they feel like they need to flex their muscles...nothing more, nothing less.....they want to be top again...
UK JETS SCRAMBLED TO INTERCEPT RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT
September 6, 2007
The Guardian.co.uk reports: “British fighter jets were today scrambled to intercept eight Russian Bear reconnaissance aircraft in the second such incident in recent weeks.
Four Tornado F3 planes took off from Leeming in north Yorkshire and Waddington in Lincolnshire to head off the aircraft. The Ministry of Defence said the Russian planes had not entered British airspace but did not provide details on where the incident took place.
The Associated Press reported that Norwegian F16 fighters were scrambled twice to monitor the same eight Russian bombers that came close to its territory in the latest show of air power by the Kremlin.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Inge Oegland, of the Norwegian Joint Headquarters, said the Russian bombers, all Tupolev-95s, neared but did not enter Norwegian air space in the far north…
At the end of last month, two RAF Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft were scrambled for the first time to intercept a Tupolev Bear over the north Atlantic. The MoD released photographs of the latest in a series of incidents over the past few months in which Russian planes flying close to British airspace have been intercepted by the RAF. MoD officials at the time played down the incident as a ‘picture-led story’ and an opportunity to show off the air defence role of the Typhoon, an expensive and long-delayed aircraft originally designed during the cold war to engage in dogfights with Soviet planes over northern Europe…”
UK JETS SCRAMBLED TO INTERCEPT RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT
September 6, 2007
The Guardian.co.uk reports: “British fighter jets were today scrambled to intercept eight Russian Bear reconnaissance aircraft in the second such incident in recent weeks.
Four Tornado F3 planes took off from Leeming in north Yorkshire and Waddington in Lincolnshire to head off the aircraft. The Ministry of Defence said the Russian planes had not entered British airspace but did not provide details on where the incident took place.
The Associated Press reported that Norwegian F16 fighters were scrambled twice to monitor the same eight Russian bombers that came close to its territory in the latest show of air power by the Kremlin.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Inge Oegland, of the Norwegian Joint Headquarters, said the Russian bombers, all Tupolev-95s, neared but did not enter Norwegian air space in the far north…
At the end of last month, two RAF Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft were scrambled for the first time to intercept a Tupolev Bear over the north Atlantic. The MoD released photographs of the latest in a series of incidents over the past few months in which Russian planes flying close to British airspace have been intercepted by the RAF. MoD officials at the time played down the incident as a ‘picture-led story’ and an opportunity to show off the air defence role of the Typhoon, an expensive and long-delayed aircraft originally designed during the cold war to engage in dogfights with Soviet planes over northern Europe…”