And now we'll revive this "tradition."
And we'll revive this "tradition."
Posted on 08/09/2007 1:45:57 PM PDT by blam
Lets do what Russia would...Shoot one down!
Mike
Whoops! I don’t know what happened, Vlad. I had no idea that American Airlines jet had a missle on it...
Why would you want to splash an aircraft in international airspace? Last year these Tu-95MS were in the North American ADIZ. Still in international airspace. Reaction is shadow and monitor. It has been going on for years.
Maybe a stealth bomber should visit Leningrad. At night. In rain.
Mike
Let some Raptors pop up behind them out of no where and light them up; and see if they feel like waving.
Dude, I just died laughing here. That is hilarious.
They might want to reignite the Cold war along with their US sympathizers, AKA the Demoncommies, but no luck!
Just a reminder, you are in a LARGE, metal, turboprop plane, visually greeting fighter pilots....had the Americans not needed the humor, the only visual you would have had would have been the vapor trail of the missile incoming to make your turboprop a very large....kit.
“is likely to have unnerved the Pentagon and caused further perplexity at the State Department over the Kremlin’s mercurial course.”
Your perplexed State Dept...half of whom are vested in the Saudi retirement fund.
Time to start building Corsairs and Mustangs as intercept planes for these beasts.
That way our jets do not have to fly at almost stall speeds to stay with the Tu-95...
Thanks. :-)
Sometimes a picture just tells the story better.
Get back to me when the U.S. puts in an official complaint of the airspace violation.
That article posted is poorly written and very stilted. A case of lost in translation.
``Whenever we saw U.S. planes during our flights over the ocean, we greeted them,’’ Androsov said. ``On Wednesday, we renewed the tradition when our young pilots flew by Guam in two planes. We exchanged smiles with our counterparts who flew up from a U.S. carrier and returned home.’’
‘Flew by’’. Legally they can go up to the 12mile limit.
the pentagon would be perplexed as to why the Russkies would use an ancient and highly vulnerable and not very effective Tu-95,
the state department was unnerved because this publicity stunt doesn't fit their foggy world view of how things are going internationally...
Mike
1) develop a midair, stand off, focused electromagnetic bomb missile.
2) next encounter, warn at 12 miles
3) intercept and fire the missile and detonate
4) EMP missile destroys thousands perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment.
5) maintaining aircraft for these flyovers becomes very expensive.
And now we'll revive this "tradition."
And we'll revive this "tradition."
Don’t confuse props and turbo-props. You realise that the Tu-95MS cruise speed is approx Mach 0.67. It is the fastest turbo-prop in service today. Top speed is comparable to the B-52H. Tu-95s will hit approx Mach 0.8 flat out.
WWII fighters wouldn’t be able to intercept such an aircraft at height even in cruise mode. The Tu-95 would out accelerate with ease a P-51.
If you follow the Wiki link someone put up, it's amazing how fast these prop bombers fly - significantly faster than even a P-38.
It's also amazing how similar they are to the B-52, in everything but bomb load (30k lbs for the Tu-95 and 60k lbs for the Buff).
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