Russian SU-27 performs close proximity barrel roll over US recon aircraft
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[QUOTE=smurfy;50232115]Russia has accused the US plane of turning its transponder off
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36177405[/url][/QUOTE]
Like I said, we are always to blame
How much flanking would a flanker flank if a flanker could flank?
How aren't these aircraft being warned about being shot down? That's not safe..
[QUOTE=Kylel999;50236936]How aren't these aircraft being warned about being shot down? That's not safe..[/QUOTE]
This is an RC-135
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/RC-135_Rivet_Joint.jpg[/t]
It's not going to be shooting anything down.
What's the Russian equivalent of a homoerotic volleyball montage?
[QUOTE=Apache249;50237006]This is an RC-135
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/RC-135_Rivet_Joint.jpg[/t]
It's not going to be shooting anything down.[/QUOTE]
they really should learn from the xb-70 that doing maneuvers close to a larger plane can go horribly wrong in unexpected ways. wake turbulence is a seriously tricky phenomina that has been known to do all sorts of crazy things, including make drop tanks fly upwards, suck planes into a collision, tear control surfaces off, and even cause aircraft to abruptly change directions
[QUOTE=Sableye;50237080]they really should learn from the xb-70 that doing maneuvers close to a larger plane can go horribly wrong in unexpected ways. wake turbulence is a seriously tricky phenomina that has been known to do all sorts of crazy things, including make drop tanks fly upwards, suck planes into a collision, tear control surfaces off, and even cause aircraft to abruptly change directions[/QUOTE]
The effects of air around large planes really does do some weird stuff. This tanker nosed down because of the AWACS behind it, causing the pilot to nose down and injure most people on board to avoid the collision
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcLiAAVeYhk[/media]
[QUOTE=Rubs10;50229673]Still fairly close to Russia and Moscow.[/QUOTE]
~1200 kilometers between Kaliningrad and Moscow.
[editline]1st May 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Apache249;50237006]This is an RC-135
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/RC-135_Rivet_Joint.jpg[/t]
It's not going to be shooting anything down.[/QUOTE]
A P-3 Orion [I]DID [/I]shoot down a Chinese fighter jet a few years ago...
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident[/url]
Well that's not shooting down so much as it is colliding
Obviously not our fault, either. I doubt a P3 is going to intentionally be able to ram a jet fighter, no?
[QUOTE=Ridge;50239065]~1200 kilometers between Kaliningrad and Moscow.
[editline]1st May 2016[/editline]
A P-3 Orion [I]DID [/I]shoot down a Chinese fighter jet a few years ago...
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident[/url][/QUOTE]
The same way the twin towers shot down two airliners...
[QUOTE=Trixil;50228546]russia what the fuck are you doing?[/QUOTE]
We just wanna play! Like good old times, yes?
[QUOTE=smurfy;50232115]Russia has accused the US plane of turning its transponder off
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36177405[/url][/QUOTE]
Which of course the pilot followed the normal operating procedures for identifying an unknown aircraft and barrel rolled over the top of it so the pilot could, by way of any markings on the upper wings or fuselage, identify the aircraft's country of origin and thus act accordingly.
It is of perfect sense, tovarish.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;50230236]Send some F-22's to the Baltic sea to intercept some Ruskies in international airspace.
Recently Iran sent up an F4 phantom to intercept one of our drones, so we sent an F-22 to intercept since not long before this Iran tried to shoot down one of our recon drones. The F-22 intercepted him, flew under his plane to see what weapons he had on him, then pulled up to his wing, and said to him over the radio "You really ought to go home". The F4 phantom never knew the F-22 was there until it pulled up beside it and told him to piss off. And he did piss off. Basically, if you see an F-22, it's because it let you
So if Russia wants to show boat, let's show boat[/QUOTE]
Provoke them, great idea!
[editline]3rd May 2016[/editline]
Your story sounds bullshit aswell, one of your articles posted before cites a blog, hardly a legit source.
Just sounds like a bullshit superoorah story that was extremely overdramatised.
[editline]3rd May 2016[/editline]
"You really ought to go home"
Like seriously? Lmao sounds like its out of a script for a bad 80s movie
I wanted to see what 25' looked like to scale, top of body to top of body
[t]http://i.imgur.com/6Va2yLg.png[/t]
represented:
SU-27 = 72' length
RC-135 = 131' wingspan
this is less "precision" and more "miracle it didn't end badly"
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