shrooma Posted January 29, 2015 #1 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Typhoon jets were scrambled today to intercept two Bear long range bombers that came close to UK airspace. . http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/01/raf-jets-scrambled-to-intercept-russian-bombers-off-dorset-coast/ . guess they're not happy about the Alexander Litvinenko affair...... . 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Ford Posted January 29, 2015 #2 Share Posted January 29, 2015 They keep doing it. My best guess is that they are testing our comms networks. Or maybe it is some sort of weak attempt at a threat. If it is the latter then it is pretty pathetic and immature. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Occult1 Posted January 29, 2015 #3 Share Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) NATO intercepted quite a lot of Russian jets in 2014. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here, Russia is testing Western defences and see how effeciently they can react. See: http://www.businessi...an-jets-2014-10 and http://www.independe...14-9851309.html Edited January 29, 2015 by sam_comm 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikolaj Posted January 29, 2015 #4 Share Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) They done the same to Turkey. Hegemony and domination. Edited January 29, 2015 by Mikolaj 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted January 29, 2015 Author #5 Share Posted January 29, 2015 the Russian envoy to the UK has been summoned to Whitehall to explain the goings on. should be interesting to hear their excuses..... . 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redefining Success Posted January 29, 2015 #6 Share Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) So they werent actually over UK air space? Edited January 29, 2015 by Redefining Success 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Occult1 Posted January 29, 2015 #7 Share Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) So they werent actually over UK air space? No, what they are doing is coming very close to a country's air space, just enough to trigger the alarm signal for the Air Force to send jets to meet the unauthorized aircrafts but these take off after interception. That might be consider a form of provocation. Edited January 29, 2015 by sam_comm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted January 29, 2015 Author #8 Share Posted January 29, 2015 So they werent actually over UK air space? close RS. they flew down the coast past Scotland, down the English Channel, and were intercepted way down near Dorset. why, gods only knows. probably, as has been pointed out, to test our defenses, but it's better than cutting off our gas supply I suppose, as it's bloody freezing here! . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Wellington Posted January 29, 2015 #9 Share Posted January 29, 2015 They keep doing it. My best guess is that they are testing our comms networks. Or maybe it is some sort of weak attempt at a threat. If it is the latter then it is pretty pathetic and immature. More like they know every time they fly their jets near our airspace the Prime Minister gets woken up. Sleep deprivation as a punishment for irritating them! lol 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted January 29, 2015 #10 Share Posted January 29, 2015 What someone should do sometime when it's just a single plane or at most two, is to not stop them from entering - like they were not detected, but refuse to let them leave... Force them down (non-violently)... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Careful_perspective Posted January 29, 2015 #11 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Is it just me, or is Russia acting really passive-aggressive lately? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted January 29, 2015 #12 Share Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) Putin's nostalgia for the Cold War days of his youth have been clearly in evidence every since he first came to power. He despises the United States and the UK for what he perceives as their culpability in the collapse of the Soviet Union and their condescension and contempt toward Russia. He rails against what he calls a false sense of exceptionalism by the United States and has actively striven to reignite Cold War animosities. He sees himself in the role of Caesar Augustus, reviving his nation's pride and morality. Edited January 29, 2015 by Hammerclaw 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Careful_perspective Posted January 29, 2015 #13 Share Posted January 29, 2015 He sees himself in the role of Caesar Augustus, reviving his nation's pride and morality. Damn, that's quite the comparison. Lets hope the Russian people don't rally behind him and his beliefs the way the Romans did to Caesar Augustus! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted January 29, 2015 #14 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Damn, that's quite the comparison. Lets hope the Russian people don't rally behind him and his beliefs the way the Romans did to Caesar Augustus! Well, Tsar or Czar is the Russian version Caesar and he certainly seems to be comporting himself as one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Br Cornelius Posted January 29, 2015 #15 Share Posted January 29, 2015 There's a war going on between Russia and NATO, NATO started it and Russia is just making it abundantly clear that they will not just roll over. America is intent at destroying the Russian economy and driving Putin out of power. The Yanks have been trying to provoke an incident for over six months now to justify further incursions of NATO forces upto Russia's borders. Putin is reminding the west that they are still a Nuclear power. Fortunately Russia seems to have been very restrained up to this point, but Putin has little to lose if NATO doesn't back off. Dangerous games. Br Cornelius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorvir Posted January 29, 2015 #16 Share Posted January 29, 2015 There's a war going on between Russia and NATO, NATO started it... And I pick on the bigfoot and alien UFO believers for being a bit wacky, they seem quite tame compared to this... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Br Cornelius Posted January 29, 2015 #17 Share Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) And I pick on the bigfoot and alien UFO believers for being a bit wacky, they seem quite tame compared to this... The Orange revolution was backed and financed and organized by the EU and USA, it may have had a legitimate support base - but it was an act of provocation against a Russian Allie. There is a considerable amount of evidence placing the US State Department at the core of what happened in the Ukraine. Br Cornelius Edited January 29, 2015 by Br Cornelius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+and-then Posted January 29, 2015 #18 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Well, Tsar or Czar is the Russian version Caesar and he certainly seems to be comporting himself as one. They are a strong, willful people who love a strong leader so until things fall completely apart he'll have the support of the middle and older crowd. I think most of the youngest (I hope) have tasted enough freedom to give him a headache. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+and-then Posted January 29, 2015 #19 Share Posted January 29, 2015 There's a war going on between Russia and NATO, NATO started it and Russia is just making it abundantly clear that they will not just roll over. America is intent at destroying the Russian economy and driving Putin out of power. The Yanks have been trying to provoke an incident for over six months now to justify further incursions of NATO forces upto Russia's borders. Putin is reminding the west that they are still a Nuclear power. Fortunately Russia seems to have been very restrained up to this point, but Putin has little to lose if NATO doesn't back off. Dangerous games. Br Cornelius Putin thinks he can do as he pleases in eastern Europe and no one there will have the gumption to make a stand. He may be correct. I agree that it's a dangerous game because he seems to be a strong self assured individual and he could miscalculate the resolve of the EU where sanctions are concerned. If he continues in a belligerent mode he may find his country falling completely apart economically. I hope he is sane enough to know when to talk prior to actually threatening the world with nukes. He does THAT and it's over for him. Unless he actually used them, then it might well be over for most of us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted January 30, 2015 #20 Share Posted January 30, 2015 (edited) Yeah, he's got nothing to lose. He sacrificed his pride and the honor of his country when he sent masked troops into Crimea. As far as NATO goes, he will do nothing but threaten and bluster. He already has one radioactive dead zone in mother Russia, he won't risk a thousand more. He's operating in his comfort zone, like the sneaky little spy he once was. He has nothing to gain and everything to lose, but his maniacal obsession with recapturing past glories are ever his undoing. He has turned a once profitable economy into a pariah state, hemorrhaging capital, for nothing but dead Russians and Ukrainians and potential sovereignty over territory Russia already had de facto control over. What a man. Edited January 30, 2015 by Hammerclaw 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxo1 Posted January 30, 2015 #21 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Should be interesting to see the cold war back in business again, just like the good old days all over again. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MordorOrc Posted January 30, 2015 #22 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Is it just me, or is Russia acting really passive-aggressive lately? It's Russia. They do this all the time. The only reason it's reported is because of the situation in Ukraine. Before them, the Soviets used to send out various aircraft over Western airspace all of the time. They do this essentially to test reaction times of various NATO air forces. The only concerning thing about this is that most of the time, Russian aircraft don't actually have any of their location equipment such as transponders switched on and also maintain radio silence. Meaning that there is a chance that one of these aircraft will collide with a civilian airliner. And there is a whole lot more airliners in the air today than there were 30-40 years ago. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skookum Posted January 30, 2015 #23 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Crikey it is like the cold war all over again. Well at least the era that the Russian kit came out of. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDarkerSide Posted January 30, 2015 #24 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Scary to think he is playing a cat and mouse game. Didn't the Russians used to send submarines close to our coast during the Cold War? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted January 30, 2015 Author #25 Share Posted January 30, 2015 putin was cute & cuddly 'til someone spilled water on the Kremlin..... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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