Russian 'Nuke' Bombers Invade British Airspace - Just wanted to discuss this

[KennyBhoy]

This cat and mouse game has went on for years as people have said. It happened day in/day out during the height of the Cold War. The Russians still enjoy a little visit it seems

 

[stockhausen]

I just saw this article on yahoo news, http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100325/tuk-russian-nuke-bombers-invade-british-45dbed5.html and was wondering what you guys think of this?
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I'd like to hear your feedback.

From your bleedin' link:

Wing Commander Mark Gorringe, commander of 111 Squadron, said: "This is not an unusual incident. People may be surprised to know that our crews have successfully scrambled to intercept Russian aircraft on more than 20 occasions since the start of 2009."

 

[Begbie]

Happens all the time.

Although how often do you think we are checking up on them? A lot more than folk think I would hazard a guess at.

 

[thepharcyde]

Happens all the time.

Although how often do you think we are checking up on them? A lot more than folk think I would hazard a guess at.

Via satellites though.

 

[pzr vr6]

We're one of the very few nuclear powers in the world and still a big hitter in the world of finance, pretty much still that superpower.

not a chance fella we were once far more dominant than the us is now. we OWNED the seas from trafalgar to ww1 we had a huge empire

 

[pzr vr6]

20 times since the start of 2009?

I'm sorry but next time we should have the safety off and missle lock on them, giving them instructions to leave immediately......and if not, bye bye.

Edit: I do not doubt for one moment, if this was the other way round they'd have shot down one of ours.

not a chance mate i dont think weve got any bombers any more

 

[meghatronic]

not a chance mate i dont think weve got any bombers any more

I think we have a semi-working Vulcan left?

 

[snowball1]

Ok I see your point. So you think its nothing to worry about then? Nobody is ever gona attack us coz we got nukes?

I have a question though from what you've all said, howcome you said USA wont help us, but we went to IRAQ for them? I thought they were our allies?

Are you 5?

 

[SlugForAButt]

I think we have a semi-working Vulcan left?

And let's not forget our seaborne air defence!

http://dailyreferendum.blogspot.com/2009/10/uss-obama-and-hms-gordon-brown.html

 

[Stringy]

*pic snip*

Note the Tornado F3's pic is taken from underneath the Bear, most likely owing to the rubbish aircraft's inability to maintain altitude!

 

[The Funktopus]

Btw where do these russian planes actually take off and land? Surely they don't come all the way from Russia itself.

They do infact. The TU-160's homebase is Engels Air Force Base, which is in the Saratov region of south-western Russia. However, they do also forward deploy them to airfields on the Kola peninsula too, which backs onto Norway and Finland, so to speak.

 

[brucey034]

Come on fellas, I expected more from you, THIS IS ENGLAND! how can they mess with us???!!!3434 we're the great british empire, lol, we're a 1st world country, maybe we're small and people call us an island, but we did good in WW2 didnt we, and I thought we were quite strong, why dont we smash them to peices when they come near us? Who do they think they're??3/2?£$?$

THIS IS ENGLAND!!! LOL

Go back 200 years and yes.
Now, Dont think so, we gave it all away.

 

[brucey034]

Yep, I understand your being sarcastic lol

 

[Eddie182]

I was going to make some informative comments and try and clarify a few things where possible here, but once I got to page 3 I realised it'd be totally pointless to attempt serious conversation.

It happens all the time, and has done since the 50's and it will continue to happen, the press to like to run a story like this once a year or so to sell papers etc, then they forget about it for a while. It's nothing to get your knickers in a twist over, it's what we have quick reaction alert aircraft for.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17756405&highlight=Typhoon+intercept

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17769572&highlight=Typhoon+intercept

If you can't get your head around it, go back to scouring the internet for free pr0n and playing computer games

 

[Stelly]

Nothing new... they just do dry runs over the UK when they are bored... the have plenty of oil to afford to do it.

Stelly

 

[Eddie182]

PIC SNIP

You missed one.

 

[KennyBhoy]

You missed one.

I had looked at that and it looked odd to me. Even the RAF symbol, the red dot is off centre

 

[Iraklis F.C.]

i dont think a war could start by shooting down a jet violating an airspace , you see for 35 years there are daily violations over the Aegean with over 20 aircraft downed from each side (GR-TR) and nothing happened...one of them (took place in 1996) is a confirmed kill (Greek mirage2000 shooting down a Turkish F-16) .

ALso violating the airspace and flying over land is a different thing afaik , if this bomber was crossing over the north of the UK then i think the reaction from the RAF would be different

 

[2StepSteve]

should have locked on missiles and fired.

Seriously why don't we wonder over to their airspace half a dozen times a month like they do with ours? Our country is weak as **** these days.

 

[meghatronic]

should have locked on missiles and fired.

Seriously why don't we wonder over to their airspace half a dozen times a month like they do with ours? Our country is weak as **** these days.

???? We're not American.

It's hardly weak. It's like ignoring someone that flips you off.