Daily Mail panic over Russian bombers.

[DukeDickson]

greygoose said:

How did it affect house prices?

Didn't you hear? They did an easy 5% today.

However, dumb schoolboy reporting in that part of the world meant they missed the boiling rain, hail, snow and sun of Mars-UK.


Thank the lord for The Express.

[carinaman]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/raf...

29 times in 3 years? Those Ruskies get up more than I do.

Not quite every 28 days then? I guess they're not Decorated pilots?

[smegmore]

The sweaties will have the measure of them after they go it alone, high-velocity anti-aircraft Buckfast bottles will see off the vodka swilling numpties

[carinaman]

1.25am, some American is on bigging up the Russian threat? Putin has his mindset stuck in the 1930s says the American. Says governments were late to realising the power of social media hence Putin's henchmen taking over the Russian FaceBork equivalent.

[carinaman]

smegmore said:

The sweaties will have the measure of them after they go it alone, high-velocity anti-aircraft Buckfast bottles will see off the vodka swilling numpties

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/in...

They said it was a Torpedo, but given the proximity to Buckfast, they could have been testing your suggested Scottish weapon of choice.

[colonel c]

whoami said:

colonel c said:

Daily Mail Headline.

DM said:

RAF Typhoon scrambled after two Russian planes stray into UK airspace today.

Further down the article the truth emerges.

DM said:

‘There were unidentified aircraft flying near the north of Scotland,’ a Ministry of Defence spokesman said, adding that the RAF had later identified them as Russian.
‘They were flying in international airspace at all times - they didn't go into UK sovereign airspace.’

Phew!




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2611419/RA...

And The Telegraph and Sky News, etc.

So what??

The Telegraph and I believe SKY did not say that the Russian planes had 'strayed into UK airspace'. and then reported in the same article that they in fact were in international airspace all along.

[carinaman]

colonel c said:

The Telegraph and I believe SKY did not say that the Russian planes had 'strayed into UK airspace'. and then reported in the same article that they in fact were in international airspace all along.

Fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD)? They want us to buy something.

[NicD]

The Mail is still running the headline even though contradicted by the article:

'RAF Typhoon scrambled after two Russian planes stray into UK airspace'

why spoil a good story ......

[NicD]

The Mail is still running the headline even though contradicted by the article:

'RAF Typhoon scrambled after two Russian planes stray into UK airspace'

why spoil a good story ......

[Halmyre]

Muntu said:

Bloody BBC are at it too!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27130125

"Fighter jets were scrambled after two Russian military aircraft were spotted approaching UK airspace, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.

Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets took off from RAF Leuchars in St Andrews, Fife, on Wednesday.

The jets were sent to investigate the Russian planes, which are believed to have turned away shortly afterwards.

RAF fighter planes were scrambled to incidents such as this eight times last year, an MOD spokesman said.

The spokesman said the jets were launched to "determine the identity of unknown aircraft" that approached the north of Scotland and "could not be identified by other means".

He said: "The aircraft were subsequently identified as Russian military aircraft. The Russian military aircraft remained in international airspace at all times as they are perfectly entitled to do so."

If they were Tu-95 Bears we're OK, the crews are all deaf from the engine noise and wouldn't hear any order to drop the bomb.

Bomb-Aimer "Left a bit...right...right...target in sight!"
Pilot "What did you say?!"
Bomb-Aimer "Yes it's a nice day!"

[skyrover]

Halmyre said:

If they were Tu-95 Bears we're OK, the crews are all deaf from the engine noise and wouldn't hear any order to drop the bomb.

Bomb-Aimer "Left a bit...right...right...target in sight!"
Pilot "What did you say?!"
Bomb-Aimer "Yes it's a nice day!"

Indeed... here's what she sounds like from the ground, 300 meters below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9S3h37GW2g

[superkartracer]

Yanks sending troops to Poland, Vice Admiral Kulakov running past the UK, nuclear bombers heading towards the UK.... Russia about to send 40,000 troops to battle.

Nothing to see here

[iphonedyou]

Muntu said:

Bloody BBC are at it too!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27130125

"Fighter jets were scrambled after two Russian military aircraft were spotted approaching UK airspace, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.

Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets took off from RAF Leuchars in St Andrews, Fife, on Wednesday.

The jets were sent to investigate the Russian planes, which are believed to have turned away shortly afterwards.

RAF fighter planes were scrambled to incidents such as this eight times last year, an MOD spokesman said.

The spokesman said the jets were launched to "determine the identity of unknown aircraft" that approached the north of Scotland and "could not be identified by other means".

He said: "The aircraft were subsequently identified as Russian military aircraft. The Russian military aircraft remained in international airspace at all times as they are perfectly entitled to do so."

At what? The BBC never stated (in the portion you quoted, anyway) that the aircraft entered UK airspace.

[GTIR]

Does all this mean the Russians will replace the English as the baddies in Hollywood movies now?

Ahh. Just like the 80's/90's again.

[audidoody]

"Bunch of monkeys on your ceiling, sir! Grab your egg and fours and let's get the bacon delivered"

[Rovinghawk]

eharding said:

the ground crew would have drunk the fuel and the hydraulic fluid as well before sunrise.

Some friends of mine drink brake fluid- they claim they can stop anytime they want.

[Puggit]

carinaman said:

Like your neighbour's cat stting in your garden, it's Bear-ly news.

I see what you did there, even if no one else responded

[skyrover]

A nice picture from a couple years ago

[Digga]

Slightly O/T but Mrs Digga and I heard, then spotted to very high, very fast jets in close formation, heading Eastward over the weekend. My wife remarked how you don't hear that noise so often these days, whereas when we were kids fast jets, high and low flying, were a hell of a lot more common. I's a bit of fun for the RAF anyway.

[AndyLB]

Naive question on this - why don't we just leave them to it rather than scrambling jets every time they come our way?

As mentioned before - any attack wouldn't be delivered by bombers, if they did stray into our airspace (which is highly unlikely...) we'd know from Radar and could scramble Jets then.

Anyone?