Are you nervous yet?

[Whickerman]

And you thought the cold war was over....

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1 280809,00.html

[johnlambert]

They (the russians) have been testing our air defences since the end of WW2 apart from a wee break for a couple of years, nothing to worry about. The RAF do the same to them

[Lonnie]

Let them overfly us, doesn't worry ma at all, what're they going to do?. Nothing except let our media try to scare us .

[laurence2]

I'm shaking like a leaf {not}.

As pointed out, its been going on for years, the media are trying to panic the general public

[Pippa68]

Ditto!

[whiffey]

Not even slightly nervous, it's just political gaming, and may even have been staged by both sides in collaboration.

I have seen the Typhoon flying at the Biggin Hill Air Show, a magnificent piece of aerospace technology, and I look forward to the Anglo-US F35. I hope they get on with it double quick otherwise we might have to buy the joint Libya-Chad FT67 which by many accounts is not quite as good.

[cambus]

I have never believed the Cold War was over.
Boris Putin is not a man to be trusted, since his rise to power, through the ranks of the Gestapo he has become one of the most feared democrats in the West.
His plan to poison Londons water supply, was only just averted, by a quick thinking Mig 15 agent, who thought his coffee tasted rather strange and immediately informed his superiors, who carried out a number of arrests at Battersea power station.
Not wishing to alarm the public, the Government has imposed a news blackout over this incident.

[jno]

Cambus is thinking of Molotov.

[stewey]

Is there any way in which we could convince the Russians, or anyone else for that matter, to bomb the hell out of the press corps? Years ago (I know, I sound like an old-folk) they reported facts. Now it's all rumour, conjecture, and scaremongering. I think that they take a journalistic pledge: If in danger, if in doubt, run in circles scream and shout!

[horsestache1]

It's certainly not the russian's we have to fear!

[China Doll]

Well I'd quite like a ride in one of those planes. Does that count? (I would be very nervous before the ride).

[cheries]

Honestly, does nobody watch Top Gun anymore? This kind of thing has been going on for years.
And I agree with Horsestache, it's certainly not the Russians who are a threat to our way of life. A couple of countries further south, perhaps....

[kwicky]

Blame the plonker Milliband our Foreign secretary. New to the job and one of Blair's old stooges he had the temerity to threaten the Russians over the Livenyenko affair. What is the saying about swatting flies that annoy you?

[rojash]

Who's Boris Putin?