Watching Russian Air & Sea Activity

[davidbfpo]

Cited in part:

BREAKING: RAF Typhoons scrambled to intercept Russian "Blackjack" Tu-160 Bombers heading towards British airspace http://forces.tv/37486149

RAF Waddington Info @EGXWinfo
All information on the current QRA targeting Russian bears on @EGXCinfo & article being updated Live at
http://www.egxwinfogroup.co.uk/?p=243

These flights are a regular event, they have never publicly entered actual UK air space (which is 12 miles from the land). They do enter the UK Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ), which extends much further than actual UK air space and officialdom states an intercept is needed to ensure the safety of other aircraft - Russian planes do not fly with a transponder turned on.

Not that UK / US / NATO aircraft ever fly on similar missions towards Russia.

[OUTLAW 09]

Cited in part:

These flights are a regular event, they have never publicly entered actual UK air space (which is 12 miles from the land). They do enter the UK Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ), which extends much further than actual UK air space and officialdom states an intercept is needed to ensure the safety of other aircraft - Russian planes do not fly with a transponder turned on.

Not that UK / US / NATO aircraft ever fly on similar missions towards Russia.

What is interesting is again they flew with transponders off and the UK was pre-warned by NATO Baltic Air Defense units...UK did not notice it on their own until shortly prior to entering UK ADIZ as the UK scramble made it after they had crossed into the ADIZ not prior to it.

Actually social media picked up on their air traffic even before the NATO Baltic Air patrols announced it.

[AdamG]

Russian corvettes equipped with Kalibr cruise missile capable of penetrating complex air defenses and hitting targets at a supersonic speed at a distance of some 2,000km will be permanently deployed in the Mediterranean, a Russian Navy admiral said.

https://www.rt.com/news/333057-kalib...mediterranean/