Russian Spy Plane Intercepted By 3 Air Forces

Hypognosis | 18:55 Thu 23rd Oct 2014 | News

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Predictably, they claim it was "on a training exercise", used "neutral airspace" and complied with all other applicable rules.

So what do you think they were hoping to see?

Can we send them the bill for the multiple intercept missions? {rhetorical}

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Thanks Eddie.

I posted here simply as a companion piece to the thread about the submarine but the topic has drifted before even reaching the foot of page one.

I have come across pprune before (the MH370 and MH17 threads had great depth of background info as people contested their theories). However, I'm a flight sim fan, mainly. An air display is about the closest I get to real-world aircraft (have never set foot on one). People like me would only get shown up among real-world flyers and even the SLF would know more about the experience than I do.

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From the MoscowTimes article:
//Part of the Baltic Fleet's misfortune is a loss of infrastructure. While the outfit was very important to the Soviet Navy, its infrastructure was spread from Kaliningrad to Leningrad along the Baltic coast. Now, with the Baltic states independent, Kaliningrad is cut off from Russia, making it difficult to support a large fleet.//

I had to look it up on a map and, rather than use a computer map, I usually reach for my trusty Atlas, to save time. It's years out of date so it labels the region as "R.S.I.S.R." and, below Kaliningrad, it says "Königsberg", in brackets.

I think this used to be a German/Prussian enclave, on the far sude of Poland, from the Germans' perspective. Funny how they never got it back, when the Iron Curtain came down. (I think there would have been ructions if it had been handed back to Poland who, surely, had it even further back?

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Ahhh the heady days of the cold war.... scrambling fighters up to ten times a week to chase them pesky Bears and Badgers back to redland.... what fun... QRA briefs and living in tiny HAS rooms.... such fun!!

It's not that big a deal these days, they encroach on certain distance limits they send the boys up to keep them company.

If you compare it to the South Atlantic, should the Agrgie scum send a ELINT aircraft out to play it gets within 500 miles it's warned by radio, 400miles they send the quick chaps up, 200 the fighters wil escort away, less than that it's weps free