cool photos of russian bombers in UK airspace

[98taco3]

Russian bombers 'intercepted in British airspace' - CNN.com

Pretty neat photos of a russian bomber as well as british tornados! id post up the pictures but it is a slide show and wont let me...

 

[M813rc]

Nice pictures indeed!
An interesting (well, to me anyway) side note - variable geometry bombers intercepted by variable geometry fighters. (variable geometry as in swing-wing).

Cheers

 

[elkhunter]

They were in Scottish air space(East Coast) The planes were TU 160's and have increased their incursions into Brfitish airspace.

 

[rorybellows]

soooo they plannin on sumthin or

 

[gunner01]

great pics ....makes one wonder what is going on

 

[subhunter]

I bet they are flying into US and Canadian airspace too.

 

[saddamsnightmare]

March 26th, 2010.

The Russion TU-160 is very similar in general form to our old Valkyrie in design, except that the engines are probably wing mounted as opposed to being in a nacelle on the underbody. I wonder what issue of Russian Playboy the pilots held up for the fighters inspection, as they always used to do that to US Fighter pilots in the bad old days before the wall came down. The bear probably needs more watching then they have been getting of late.....

Note that there are currently no long range strategic replacements scheduled in the pipeline for the B-52.... I wonder when the first B-52 will be due for its social security check, or will it have to keep working instead of retirement????

Cheers,
Kyle F. McGrogan

 

[airbornebandsman]

The Russians are coming, The Russians are coming!!!

 

[hklvette]

March 26th, 2010.

The Russion TU-160 is very similar in general form to our old Valkyrie in design, except that the engines are probably wing mounted as opposed to being in a nacelle on the underbody. I wonder what issue of Russian Playboy the pilots held up for the fighters inspection, as they always used to do that to US Fighter pilots in the bad old days before the wall came down. The bear probably needs more watching then they have been getting of late.....

Note that there are currently no long range strategic replacements scheduled in the pipeline for the B-52.... I wonder when the first B-52 will be due for its social security check, or will it have to keep working instead of retirement????

Cheers,
Kyle F. McGrogan

IIRC, the B-1 was based on the Tu-160 design.

 

[wreckerman893]

Note that there are currently no long range strategic replacements scheduled in the pipeline for the B-52.... I wonder when the first B-52 will be due for its social security check, or will it have to keep working instead of retirement????

I saw a program about the B-52 on the History Channel........one of the pilots they interviewed was youger than the "BUFF" (Big Ugly Fat F**ker) he was flying......ironically his father flew the same plane when he was an active duty pilot.

If you want to read a good fiction book about the B-52 get a copy of "Flight of the Old Dog".

With the upgrades to its systems the B-52 can still deliver a huge load of "dumb bombs" or many advanced "smart weapons".

We probably got more bang for our buck from that plane than any other combat bomber we ever produced.

 

[M813rc]

IIRC, the B-1 was based on the Tu-160 design.

No, if anything it is the other way around, the B-1 is a much older plane with concept design starting in the late 60's, first hardware flown early 70's. The Tu-160 is also a lot bigger.

Cheers

 

[mattsb2000]

If you want to read a good fiction book about the B-52 get a copy of "Flight of the Old Dog".

Dale Browns books are awesome.