WASHINGTON (CNN) -- American fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers, one of which buzzed a U.S. aircraft carrier in the western Pacific over the weekend, U.S. military officials told CNN Monday.
A Tupolev-95 flies over the Izu Islands, just south of Tokyo, Saturday.
One of them twice flew about 2,000 feet over the deck of the USS Nimitz Saturday while another flew about 50 miles away, officials said. Two others were at least 100 miles away, the military reported.
U.S. Defense officials said four F/A-18A fighter jets from the Nimitz were in the air.
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Four turboprop Tupolev-95 Bear bombers took off from Ukrainka air base, in Russia's Far East, in the middle of the night, Japanese officials told The Associated Press, adding that one of the jets violated Japanese airspace.
Russian bombers have been making flights over the western Pacific for several months. In September, two U.S. F-15 fighters scrambled to intercept a plane that came within 50 miles of the coastline.
There have been eight incidents off Alaska since July. Among the latest, on September 5, six F-15s from Elmendorf Air Force Base, adjacent to Anchorage, Alaska, intercepted six Russian bombers about 50 miles from the northwest coast of Alaska.
Two similar incidents occurred in August, one near Cape Lisburne, Alaska, and the other near Cold Bay, Alaska, west of the Aleutian Islands
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Why not have fun and fly *really* close to the bombers when they try their shenanigans.
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I don't understand why one of our Hornets didn't just fly inverted over the Bear and flip the pilot the bird while snapping a polaroid....*sigh* things were much simpler back then.
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Stravo wrote:I don't understand why one of our Hornets didn't just fly inverted over the Bear and flip the pilot the bird while snapping a polaroid....*sigh* things were much simpler back then.
Because the Hornets are single-seaters, so their pilots can't fly the plane, flip a bird, and snap a polaroid at the same time. Well, not without crashing themselves into the Bear.
Stravo wrote:I don't understand why one of our Hornets didn't just fly inverted over the Bear and flip the pilot the bird while snapping a polaroid....*sigh* things were much simpler back then.
Because the Hornets are single-seaters, so their pilots can't fly the plane, flip a bird, and snap a polaroid at the same time. Well, not without crashing themselves into the Bear.
Yet another reason why the F-14 was way cooler.
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Stravo wrote:I don't understand why one of our Hornets didn't just fly inverted over the Bear and flip the pilot the bird while snapping a polaroid....*sigh* things were much simpler back then.
Because the Hornets are single-seaters, so their pilots can't fly the plane, flip a bird, and snap a polaroid at the same time. Well, not without crashing themselves into the Bear.
Well...they could send some D / F models...
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That'll be a laugh.
It'd be too slow for that, a B-1A might have a chance but we just have the comparatively crappy B-1B
A better idea would be to reactivate every flightworthy bomber in the boneyards as quietly as possible, and then conduct a strategic exorcise with our bombers.
I'd think the reaction of the PVO collectively shitting its pants as ~90% of America's bombers hover over their fail safe points is repayment enough. The cherry on top could be the US announcing the reactivation of Strategic Air Command at that moment.
How close did those Bears get to the Nimitz? "Buzzing" sounds like "the bomber is well within range to launch antiship missiles" or "the bomber is well within range to get shot down by the carrier's escorts." Either way, it sounds like someone in the Nimitz CBG dropped the ball.
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Yeah someone fucked up big time. I don't know too much about naval warfare but I'm pretty sure 2,000 feet above the deck is pretty much shoot it the fuck down space. I mean if you can freaking see it it's too close.
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RIPP_n_WIPE wrote:Yeah someone fucked up big time. I don't know too much about naval warfare but I'm pretty sure 2,000 feet above the deck is pretty much shoot it the fuck down space. I mean if you can freaking see it it's too close.
The Russians have gone lower before, in the Good Old Days. Say, 1,000ft.
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The Russians have gone lower before, in the Good Old Days. Say, 1,000ft.
Quite surely we used to make low passes over foreign ships before, and more than now.
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Matt Huang wrote:Because the Hornets are single-seaters, so their pilots can't fly the plane, flip a bird, and snap a polaroid at the same time. Well, not without crashing themselves into the Bear.
Yet another reason why the F-14 was way cooler.
Did the back seater even have flight controls? I didn't think that they did.
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Did the back seater even have flight controls? I didn't think that they did.
And that's why the RIO took the picture
And that's how I display that I haven't watched that movie in more than 10 years...
Of course, I remember it now, but that knowledge would have been useful before opening my mouth.
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Having seen the images of a Russian fleet going through the straights of Gibraltar - I think if anything with a jet engine buzzed 'em the damn ships would be fall to bits, unless rust holds things together better than I think.
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RIPP_n_WIPE wrote:Yeah someone fucked up big time. I don't know too much about naval warfare but I'm pretty sure 2,000 feet above the deck is pretty much shoot it the fuck down space. I mean if you can freaking see it it's too close.
Hardly. If it was a Russian Bear, then the US would just ignore it as both sides know the other isn't going to do anything crazy and as long as they are in international waters, and the Russians don't light up any targeting radars, everyone is just going to stay cool.
The F-18's were no doubt following it the whole time of course.
Now if it had been some idiot in a Cesena that the flyover. he might very well have been shot down, as the Admiral would not have a clue if it was filled with C4 and ready to be flown into the Carriers island or something. But the Ruskies, they be cool.
Vympel wrote:It might also be that a Tu-95MS has absolutely no way to harm a ship, short of flying near the deck and shooting it's rear 23mm guns at it ...
It doesn't have ANY hardpoints at ALL? Its complete ELINT and nothing else? Not even a few Harpoonskis?
And that's how I display that I haven't watched that movie in more than 10 years...
