Two F16's intercept 2 russian bomber above northsea

[Operator]

http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/7966582/__Russische_bommenwerpers_onderschept__.html?p=3,1

This article is in Dutch so I will summarize it in English:

Two F16's intercept 2 russian bomber above northsea
Apparently it happened before in the night of 15/16 September, so it's the 2nd time.
Danish and British fighter jets responded first. After the interception the 2 bombers 'went away' ... ?

How childish can the news get ? It's the 2nd time and they just went away ?
If we don't see questions asked or any diplomatic upheaval over this I guess it's just 'programming'.
Now it's up to us to find out what they are up to ...

[Snowy Owl]

Same in Canada F-16 had to leave swiftly from Bagotville, Québec to intercept twice intruders from Russia. It seems related to the sovereignty on the artic zone.

Snowy

[Elandiel BernElve]

Hey Operator,

Can you read Dutch? Didn't know that.
But indeed it's the second time Russian bombers fly at high altitude over Western Europe.

Last time they made such appearances was back during the Cold War.

What the hell are they up to flying over Europe without permission, strange..

[Operator]

It seems related to the sovereignty on the artic zone.

My gut feeling proves itself to be often right lately. And one of the things that keeps popping up is that we'll
find interesting things at the poles (if they melt). Not sure about the North pole although it might be a safe haven since
the doomsday vault is located nearby on Svalbard.

I think the Falkland war might have been about being close to the south pole too. Especially the south pole is enigmatic.
Apart from telescopes, we'll find lake Vostok there (+ dangerous bacteria ?) and perhaps the answer on the mysteries
around Neu Schwabenland (base new Berlin (http://www.projectcamelot.org/base_new_berlin.html)), the real story about the 2 Nazi submarines and Operation Highjump (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Highjump).
(what's in a name ... :eek:)

http://www.zamandayolculuk.com/cetinbal/AE/Chaunebuboot.jpg

[Snowy Owl]

There are more from the Nazi when they left Deutchland than we now about, das ist richtig

[Paul J Salmon]

This seems to happen quite often and they tend to be TU-95's, TU-160's and even TU-90's which are propeller driven! They tend to fly along the Barents Sea then they will either turn south into the Norwegian Sea or continue flying over the Atlantic before turning round. Russian Commanders always say when asked, that they did not mean to stray into foreign airspace. They are just keeping us on our toes I expect.

[Luke]

Usually they are TU-95 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu-95), the long-range tactical bomber. sure they are propeller driven, but despite that they have flight characteristics on par or better than B-52, which are their counterparts (max speed: 920 km/h). If you want something that have 15 tons of armament and can patrol for 16 hours straight (more with refueling) , no jet can beat it.
Here one with canadian CF-18:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Tupolev_Tu_95_USAF.jpg/800px-Tupolev_Tu_95_USAF.jpg
Tu-160 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-160) is equivalent of american B-1 Lancer, and its purely strike aircraft. No patrolling for this one.

[Operator]

This seems to happen quite often and they tend to be TU-95's, TU-160's and even TU-90's which are propeller driven!

I am not familiar with those types of planes ... but are you saying they are 'older' types ?

Hmm, interesting ... are they 'lost' planes from the past not knowing how they ended up here in our time ?
Are they popping in and out of 'natural' portals .... ?

Hmmm, even more interesting ... I went back to the article because I was not sure if they said something like:
"did not happen since the cold war". But the article was altered and updated ... all of a sudden more explanation
is given. Now they're saying that they did have similar cases in previous years ... but number of occurrences are
declining. They even try to explain it's probably because of technical malfunction that they fail to communicate
with those planes which requires those responses ...
Could it be that the equipment fails to communicate because it is outdated ?

Maybe I have just an over-active imagination ... but it's baffling.
My gut feeling again tells me the story stinks ...

[Snowy Owl]

...from Northcom

This is unprecedented except few times, Putin has decided to reactivate the TU-95 patrol, this is for artic as it is concluded at Northcom.

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