US and Canadian jets intercept Russian Aircraft in ADIZ
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[QUOTE=426_Hemi;46030211]Yep. It's not new and very common, not only in Alaska. It's like a way to say "hey we're still there look at that shiny bomber" and to to test reactivity, and the countries answers by "hey we are here too, look at my shiny fighter" .
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What do you want to bet that that's the same fuckin' plane, too
[QUOTE=Pilot1215;46034342]Many times, both sides are armed with real weapons. Russian transports and bombers have tailguns too. You see an F-15 coming at you, firing something at you, you are going to retaliate. Last thing we need is an international incident, or even worse. While the idea of paintball dogfights over the Bering Sea are cool, in reality, it would cause some problems.[/QUOTE]
Paint into jet engines would be bad. Paint covered cockpit would be bad. Yea, I can't really see anything good about jet fighters playing paintball.
Interesting fact is there have been reports that the aircrews on both sides tend to be quite friendly to each other. Waving, showing pictures n' stuff. I think they just enjoy flying. :smile:
[QUOTE=Kigen;46034402]Interesting fact is there have been reports that the aircrews on both sides tend to be quite friendly to each other. Waving, showing pictures n' stuff. I think they just enjoy flying. :smile:[/QUOTE]chivalry apparently isn't dead, it's just sitting in a flying missile platform going at the speed of sound through the troposphere
[QUOTE=Beluntz;46027490]Well the Russian dick waving is getting old...[/QUOTE]
Russia and other countries do this all the time, it's only because the ukraine/russia developments that news sites are reporting it. Nothing else.
[QUOTE=Sableye;46027855]Dickwaving at 50,000 feet over Alaska has pretty much been the standard of u.s. Russian relations since like 1950, if they weren't testing our airspace and suddenly pulled everything back then we should get worried[/QUOTE]
They stopped for a good while there.
Also I wonder how that intercept goes when you use f-22's.
"You have violated US air space, turn around or you will be shot down."
".....who the hell is talking to us?"
"Fuck, stealth, right. Yeah I'll fly closer so you can see me from the window."
Maybe it can get to a point where you can just use ground stations and pretend to be an F-22 intercepting them. :P
NORAD does something other than track Santa Claus?
[QUOTE=Kigen;46034402]Paint into jet engines would be bad. Paint covered cockpit would be bad. Yea, I can't really see anything good about jet fighters playing paintball.
Interesting fact is there have been reports that the aircrews on both sides tend to be quite friendly to each other. Waving, showing pictures n' stuff. I think they just enjoy flying. :smile:[/QUOTE]
Generally pilots are considered the elite of military. I would say even the intelligent elite. The reason probably being how hard it is to become a pilot.
Like during WWI there was a German Ace pilot (you all heard of him) Red Baron. He took down over 70 aircrafts of the allies. But when he was shot down by them they buried him like a hero and even wrote on his grave:"Here lays our enemy and friend".
I think all military pilots feel related to eachother in a way.
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;46046266]Generally pilots are considered the elite of military. I would say even the intelligent elite. The reason probably being how hard it is to become a pilot.
Like during WWI there was a German Ace pilot (you all heard of him) Red Baron. He took down over 70 aircrafts of the allies. But when he was shot down by them they buried him like a hero and even wrote on his grave:"Here lays our enemy and friend".
I think all military pilots feel related to eachother in a way.[/QUOTE]
Theres also some cool story about a ww2 german pilot,Franz Stigler, who thought it immoral to shoot down a crippled plane. 1 plane away from some kind of medal he saw a US bomber, flew in close and saw the crew were all messed up, he flew back with them to stop german AA from shooting it down so they could get home safely.
[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;46046276]Theres also some cool story about a ww2 german pilot,Franz Stigler, who thought it immoral to shoot down a crippled plane. 1 plane away from some kind of medal he saw a US bomber, flew in close and saw the crew were all messed up, he flew back with them to stop german AA from shooting it down so they could get home safely.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brown_and_Franz_Stigler_incident[/url]