Russian bomber jets swoop over US Aircraft

[lovuian]

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The Pentagon has confirmed that two Russian TU-95 Bear bombers flew over a U.S aircraft carrier on the weekend.

U.S defence officials say the incident occurred in the western Pacific.

Four F-18 fighters jets were launched to intercept the Russian bombers, but not before they had flown across the deck of the USS Nimitz at an altitude of 2,000 feet.

The F-18s escorted the bombers out of the area.

It was the second time since July 2004 that a Russian Bear bomber has been able to get that close to a U.S aircraft carrier.
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this isn't the only instance
Kitty Hawk had same episode in 2004
Russian bombers flew undetected across Arctic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq1pUfd1MM8
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=5127
Then they freaked Denmark too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC7ZiTKt0lI

Britain jets were scrambled too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beDuqLG95Ng

Cold War is BACK Putin is reminding US Military they are still powerful and we are vulnerable

[thunder rising]

1. Once is luck, twice is a coincidence, three times ... it's a kill

[Kutjara]

2. Vladimir's got himself some stealth technology...

...and he wants us to know it. If he can retrofit it to TU-95s, he could potentially stealth the entire airforce. I guess it's back to the drawing board for our AWACS engineers.

[Rick Myers]

3. The Navy F-18s in your video...

Look alot like US Air Force F-15s once stationed in Alaska. The AK on the straight double tail ain't Navy.

[lovuian]

4. there is no video footage that I know of the encounter

of the Nimitz
Your right the picture is the F15 that was scrambled because the Bear infiltrated undetected over US air Space in the artic and caught up and escorted out It was well within our territory

I'm indicating in the video for people to see that our jets are escorting them out

I used pictures that is available thats what your seeing

[MindMatter]

5. 2000 feet is not exactly

"flying over the deck"

[Arctic Dave]

7. actually

For these Russian Bears 2000 ft is pretty much flying over the deck. Bears are something like the the B52's, they fly high, drop their load and wave goodbye. Back in the day we would have them fly over us in the West Pac but never that low.

[lovuian]

8. Ya if they flyed that low you would give them

something to remember you by
:rofl:

[MindMatter]

11. But it is not as if they were buzzing the carrier deck

At 2000 feet, you could say they were "in the area" or "flying a provocative course" or something like that. But saying they flew over the flight deck seems like a gross exaggeration.

[Rick Myers]

6. Gotta say, this is not all that uncommon!

Not to mention the sub on sub action!

Having served at a base called "Top Cover for America," I know a bit about how we deal with these incursions. No one thinks they are attacks, they used to happen every day in the late 70s and early 80s...

[pegleg]

9. This is just like old times and nothing to over react to

during the cold war it happened often. Cat and mouse , nothing more.

[lovuian]

14. You guys said it this happened during the Cold War

we were so happy that the Cold War was over and we had Peace and prosperity

Now here we go again

the point Putin is making to the Pentagon is
The Cold War is Back

[Voltaire99]

10. Did they fly low enough to see...

...our tax dollars being wasted?

[MindMatter]

12. ROTFL

Sir, the space station is flying low enough to see that.

Come to think of it, the space station doesn't have any room to talk. :)

[iamthebandfanman]

13. its fun isnt it ?

watching russia and china getting stronger. building their military and building their economy. a long with asserting themselves more in the global community. all the while we chase after a mythical man who will never be caught as long as hes being payed by our government to cause terror.

Tale as old as time
Tune as old as song
Bittersweet and strange
Finding you can change
Learning you were wrong
Certain as the sun
Rising in the east
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the Beast.

[MindMatter]

16. Remember, it was the arms race

that sunk the Soviet Union. But at least in their case, there was a real enemy (the US) keeping up our half of the race.

With this Bush idiot, we don't have any significant military enemies in the world today, yet he is pissing away over a trillion dollars a year in this build-up. While China is eating our lunch now and Russia is not far behind.

[SexyGalFan]

15. If these were Iranian jets, we'd be at war

By now. That's the tradition: We do not invade countries with nukes.

[lovuian]

17. Mik T had a interesting theory what if the Russian's are

jamming the signals of the ship that is shooting down the satellite