Cold War "Bear's are back"

[tigershark]

I see the cold war days are coming back England producing fighters again, Nixon claims there are no tapes, oh yes two Tu95 “Bear” bombers were dispatched from their base on the Kola Peninsula in the Arctic Circle and headed towards British airspace.   I remember seeing all those F-14 pictures of Bear intercepts and brings back hiding under the desk drill memories at school. 

The complete story
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2093759.ece

Just found this the Russian side of it
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070718/69179730.html

[Globetrotter]

well, maybe the Bear's crew just wanna see the Typhoon from close... ::)hehe

[alyster]

That's due to the Lugovoi case and the expelled diplomats. They got lucky yet.

That's not bad yet. In Northen Estonian air space you can play Iraqi bingo: Su-27, Tu-95, An-26.

Russian airforce rents commercial air planes sometimes and send them to some un clear missions, in which they 'accidentaly' cross our air space for some minutes. I guess we ought to deploy some Patriots to island of Vaindloo and othe other common violation location. (but we only buy mistrals  )
Thinking back then one Flanker crashed in Lithuania.  Lithuanian firefighters were on site before the NATO QRA.  (q stands for quick)

[WRCKid]

WOW, it appears that we're back in the cold war days...what next Bay of Pigs?

[Viggen]

Ah! The good old cold war, i do miss it sometimes. The world was actually a better place back then. 

[Webmaster]

Actually, a few months back a pair of Tornado F.3s were also dispatched to intercept a Bear, probably Tu-142. But at that time it was monitoring a NATO naval exercise.

So this might be totally unrelated to the Litvinenko stuff.

Bear intercepts, diplomatic/spy wars, argueing over missiles in Europe, healthy MiG order book, and messing about in Afghanistan, it does all sound like the Cold War days. Only back then arms treaties were mostly signed, not torn up...

With Putin and Bush, I'm not surprised we're heading this way.

Bay of Pigs...well, could be, let's see how the US wants to handle Chavez. 

[Viggen]

Twice this week the Norwegian AF sent up F16´s to check out the russian bears that was flying close to their airspace.  According to their airforce this is not unusual.