| Tango01 | 08 Aug 2014 12:42 p.m. PST |
…And Canadian Airspace. "For the second time since June, Russian nuclear bombers escorted by fighter jets have flown near U.S. and Canadian airspace around Alaska in recent days, prompting precautionary intercepts by American warplanes. The encounters come amid Russian war games along the border with eastern Ukraine, raising Western concerns that Moscow might invade to support pro-Moscow separatists battling the Kiev government since spring. A U.S. air command official acknowledged at least 16 Russian forays around Alaska and northern Canada in the past 10 days, describing them as routine training missions. One intercept spotted a Russian spy plane among the Tupolev Tu-95 "Bear" bombers and Tu-142 reconnaissance and anti-submarine aircraft…"
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| GROSSMAN | 08 Aug 2014 1:24 p.m. PST |
Maybe we should "test" our air to air missiles? |
| Zargon | 08 Aug 2014 4:13 p.m. PST |
They are just making sure America is not trying to smuggle their chickens into Russia. Larf. |
| Charlie 12 | 08 Aug 2014 4:47 p.m. PST |
And this is new? Seem to recall it was SOP back in the Cold War days… |
79thPA  | 08 Aug 2014 5:18 p.m. PST |
I'd be more concerned if they weren't doing it. |
| Sobieski | 08 Aug 2014 6:57 p.m. PST |
It's always been part of their training; they probed British airspace just about weekly for decades. I wonder about little digressions into Russian airspace by other people (but that wouldn't sell newspapers). |
 Legion 4  | 09 Aug 2014 11:19 a.m. PST |
I'd be surprised if the Russkies didn't play "Top Gun" games … |
| Mako11 | 09 Aug 2014 2:32 p.m. PST |
Vlad, still trying to prove Russia is relevant. |
| Mako11 | 09 Aug 2014 3:33 p.m. PST |
Perhaps we should adopt the Russian air-defense model, of shooting first, and asking questions later. |
| Charlie 12 | 09 Aug 2014 6:18 p.m. PST |
We've been doing the same in the Pacific for years… and getting the same kind of response from the Russians. Nothing new, move along… (and, Mako, nothing to start WWIII over… and anyone with a credible nuclear force is STILL relevant…) |
| Mako11 | 12 Aug 2014 4:05 p.m. PST |
They used to down our aircraft all the time, back during the Cold War, while for some reason, we apparently did not reciprocate in kind. WWIII never started back then, so doubt it will now. |
| Charlie 12 | 12 Aug 2014 7:56 p.m. PST |
And why escalate an incident? Just because the Russians were idiots doesn't mean we have to match them in stupidity… |
