Russian Jet makes unsafe intercept of US Navy aircraft

[snakeyes]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/27/politics/russia-us-unsafe-intercept/index.html

 

[snakeyes]

 

[Richard Cranium]

Vlad is toying with us.

 

[DeltaV]

Cat and mouse games have been occurring for a very long time.

 

[69Coronetrt]

Russian jet...
Unsafe intercept....

Call Maverick and Goose.

 

[threewood]

We were.......inverted.

 

[mmissile]

Cat and mouse games have been occurring for a very long time.

Subs.... running into each other, isn't unheard of.

 

[steve from staten island]

Russia is our friend. Its fake news anyway.

 

[Budnicks]

Sounds like a Rusky fighter pilot having some fun...

I wonder how many of our guys do the exact same things ?
If given the opportunity, we don't hear a word about any of it...

How close were we to Russian ships or base etc. ?
was it really in international waters/airspace ?
The Black Sea is a Russian stronghold today...

I think our guys probably expected it too...
They are in a surveillance spying aircraft after all...

Seems like a normal occurrence the past few DECADES

 

[Auggie56]

Begining of the video looked like the camera was picking up proper blades. This Posiden aircraft is a jet.

 

[Auggie56]

 

[Gold Rush]

Begining of the video looked like the camera was picking up proper blades. This Posiden aircraft is a jet.

That video is from some news release file. Not the actual encounter.

 

[biomedtechguy]

I used to have a couple of Cox model planes, w/methanol powered motors. The Mustang fighter, and that Stukka dive bomber-which had an extra string in the hand control to release the red plastic bomb it carried. The Stukka was quite an engineering feat.

 

[Darius]

I spent 2+ years in Holland while in the USAF in the early '70's. Our mission was to defend the skies up that way. We had 2 F-4's on 5 minute alert at ALL times. They would scramble several times a month to "intercept" Russ..."unidentified" aircraft in our area of operation. They would fly up, wave at the Russians in the Bear, and everyone would go their own way.

 

[Auggie56]

I used to have a couple of Cox model planes, w/methanol powered motors. The Mustang fighter, and that Stukka dive bomber-which had an extra string in the hand control to release the red plastic bomb it carried. The Stukka was quite an engineering feat.

Did you have the early green one? About 1965 I bought one, never flew beyond one circle before I crashed it to pieces. You see them on eBay fairly regularly. One auction, never removed from it's original box was posted for six hundred bucks.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Co...477017?hash=item3f90096f19:g:RqEAAOSwpzJaRAAi

 

[DeltaV]

Did you have the early green one? About 1965 I bought one, never flew beyond one circle before I crashed it to pieces. You see them on eBay fairly regularly. One auction, never removed from it's original box was posted for six hundred bucks.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Co...477017?hash=item3f90096f19:g:RqEAAOSwpzJaRAAi

Thanks for your post!

I received one as a Christmas present from my parents a long, long time ago!!!

The wing-root broke when I pancake landed it on its maiden flight. Undeterred, the wing was replaced with a straight plywood skeleton wing skinned with drawing film mylar. I flew it forever.