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Post by Batman. on Aug 17, 2007 18:48:57 GMT
Watching the news with interest tonight. Russian President Vladimar Putin, as ordered Russian AF Bombers to probe western skies once again, like the old days of the 1970's and 1980's, look's like the QRA at RAF Leuchars, is going to become busier again, intercepting the new threat?
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Post by Chris Gurney on Aug 18, 2007 12:38:27 GMT
If only there would be a new cold war, reactivate the old bases, drag all the old jets out of retirement. Alas that will never happen, this is just the typical Russain mentality of trying to show they are still a force to be reconned with.
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Post by cherskiy on Aug 21, 2007 19:03:51 GMT
What used to be called Dalnaya Aviatsiya (DA, or Long-Range Aviation) but which now goes under the grand title of 37th Air Army, Supreme High Command, are only flying again because the Government have oil money to spend on fuel and maintenance of the Tu-22M/95/160 fleet. The numbers of aircraft available however, are only a fraction of what DA had at its bases around Murmansk in the late 1980s. We're not going to see the numbers of intrusions that say occurred in the mid-1980s.
Flights stopped in 1992 because of lack of money for spares and fuel, not due to some gesture on the behalf of the Russians. America won the First Cold War through economics in the end. The Russians might rattle their sabres occasionally now, but they haven't got the amount of conventional weapons they once wielded anymore to make any threats stick.
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