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pbmus

(12,422 posts) Sat Jan 6, 2018, 09:43 PM Jan 2018

RUSSIAN JETS INTERCEPTED BY U.S. AIR FORCE, NEW VIDEO FOOTAGE SHOWS

A new video released by the United States Air Force on Friday shows two Russian jets being intercepted in past two months.

The video shows two intercepts on November 23 and December 13 of two Russian Navy SU-30 Flankers flying in tight formation in international space near the Baltics, Stars and Stripes reported. The United States Air force in Europe said the flankers that were intercepted did not broadcast the appropriate codes air traffic control required and did not have a flight plan on file.

The U.S is giving NATO’s Baltic air-policing mission to Denmark next week which will conclude a four-month stay in Lithuania. Officials said that U.S fighter jets would scramble about 30 times to identify Russian aircrafts flying near NATO airspace.

http://www.newsweek.com/united-states-air-force-russian-jets-intercepted-773101

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RUSSIAN JETS INTERCEPTED BY U.S. AIR FORCE, NEW VIDEO FOOTAGE SHOWS (Original Post) pbmus Jan 2018 OP

Bored boys with toys...happens weekly. Media publishes this everyday to keep fear alive and Fred Sanders Jan 2018 #1

In other words, its click bait.. pbmus Jan 2018 #2

Which presupposes that the "boys with toys" are pilots just out on their own. Igel Jan 2018 #3

Fred Sanders

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1. Bored boys with toys...happens weekly. Media publishes this everyday to keep fear alive and

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 09:52 PM

Jan 2018

the military well fed without protest.

pbmus

(12,422 posts)

2. In other words, its click bait..

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 09:57 PM

Jan 2018

Igel

(35,356 posts)

3. Which presupposes that the "boys with toys" are pilots just out on their own.

Reply to pbmus (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 11:30 PM

Jan 2018

That their command and control folk have no idea what they're doing, and are okay with it?

Or maybe that the C&C folk are having some hijinx separate from what *their* commanders have to say about the matter?

And we act like it's a problem when the US CiC says a few things. When some lowly flyboy out for a bit of a drunken prowl could shoot down a US plane or maybe venture into NY and strike, say, the Chrysler Building. Because we all know that fighter pilots really are out there on their own, unanswerable to anybody. Repeatedly.

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