Su-27 "Headbutts" a B-52
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The Basket
Senior Master Sergeant
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- Jun 27, 2007
This has been going on for donkeys years.
The idea is that the turbulence spills your coffee.
Read any stories of ferret missions and this is par for the course.
The idea is that the turbulence spills your coffee.
Read any stories of ferret missions and this is par for the course.
Good one!
Nothing has changed except the hardware has gotten heavier and faster. When I was in the Nav 50 years ago, the EC121 ELINT planes out of Florida were getting the same treatment from Fidel's MiG21s out over the Caribbean, sometimes even within our own ADIZ. Kept the Hotpad guys on their toes. Four or five scrambles a week not unusual.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Do NATO aircraft ever return the compliment, as it were?
And stoop to their level? If NATO aircraft do pull that sort of stunts, do you think we'll hear about it? We're supposedly the ones all about freedom of navigation, aren't we? Bullying other nation's aircraft in international airspace doesn't present very good optics to the rest of the world.
Fidel's boys had a particularly nasty stunt. A pair of MiGs would pull up just ahead of the Connie's tip tanks, then slide inward until their vortices were battering the big bird's ailerons, which would give the whole airframe a good shaking. Then they would light their burners and chris cross in front of its nose. Gave all the intel types inside a good shakeup. Those folks deserved combat pay. Most of the non-flightcrew types, such as communications techs, linguists, photo interpreters, data analysts, cryptologists, etc, didn't even get flight pay, as they were officially ground pounders and not involved in "field operations".
