Oh dear, a little bit of knowledge, I suggest you do some reading up on your facts.
RAF scrambled to intercept Russian bombers.
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Oh dear, a little bit of knowledge, I suggest you do some reading up on your facts.
Some really interesting replies here, thank god none of us are involved with world politics. This really isn't anything new, they send a few planes down very close to the airspace (as the article states, MOD haven't even confirmed that they got into our airspace it was just Sky News and we all know how our media loves sensationalist claims) and then record our response (how many planes, how quickly etc). Happened a lot during the Cold War years and now they are just reminding us that they are back on the map.
Frankly even if they got into airspace RAF wouldn't shoot them unless they got anywhere near anything worth bombing (so England
). Frankly this can only be good for RAF, get some real practice intercepting stuff.
Frankly even if they got into airspace RAF wouldn't shoot them unless they got anywhere near anything worth bombing (so England
). Frankly this can only be good for RAF, get some real practice intercepting stuff.
Well they are quite similiar really.. the bears engines are extremely powerful and whole idea that they're err 'crap' compared to a "jet engine" is bit ironic considering theyre really "jet engines" with a gear box to convert rpm to torque and a propeller or 2.
B-52s only 50 kt's faster with top speed but the Bear has TWICE the range of the '52.
I would overestimate russia's military might too much.. their equipment is soviet era and i've heard well over 50% of it all is not even worthy for use. Nukes are different thing though
Ha ha haunless they got anywhere near anything worth bombing (so England
Russian aircraft have been entering UK controlled airspace for generations; recently this has been happening more and more regularly as Russia ups its 'presence' and I would expect such flights to happen each month. I suggest it was a quiet news day...
I'm sure our fighters could happily deal with the Russian bombers but I wouldn't exactly call them a cheap Ryan air job. Had a quick wiki at their specs vs the B52 (think the Russian one pictured in the thread is a Tu-95) not exactly worlds apart as far as i can tell but I'm not an expert. Just because they use propellers don't judge them as primitive.
Fair enough
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-160
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurofighter_Typhoon
Typhoon might just be able to catch it, if it's carrying very few weapons.
Still not bad from memory.
Well they are quite similiar really.. the bears engines are extremely powerful and whole idea that they're err 'crap' compared to a "jet engine" is bit ironic considering theyre really "jet engines" with a gear box to convert rpm to torque and a propeller or 2.
B-52s only 50 kt's faster with top speed but the Bear has TWICE the range of the '52.
I would overestimate russia's military might too much.. their equipment is soviet era and i've heard well over 50% of it all is not even worthy for use. Nukes are different thing though
Beaten to biggin up the bears it would appear!
Beaten twice it would appear!! lol
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As I said, a little bit of knowledge..
so the typhoon would still have one hell of a job catching up with it, combined with the fact it's payload is capable of travelling at anywhere between free fall and mach 5-6 means there's not a hope in hell of a typhoon ever stopping one if it was on the war path.
It might get it after wards bet defiantly not before.
It might get it after wards bet defiantly not before.
Pardon? Are you trying to sound really clever? because your not
Can they bomb at full speed or do they have to drop down?
Drop down. do it at sea fire a missile then **** off home.
Pardon? Are you trying to sound really clever? because your not
yeah I was thinking of commenting on the bastardisation of the quote
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The Tornado F3 is capable of Mach 2.4 and the Typhoon Mach 2.2 (stated is 2.2 and 2.0 respectively).
The TU160 has a max of Mach 2.1. It can also only fly up to 50,000ft, whereas the RAF Typhoon can go up to 65,000ft!
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both the typhoon and what?
Problem is though the bomber doesn't even have to reach it;s targets now, just get within range of a high speed missile.
Plus it;s course would most likely be set so that it's as far away from every typhoon in the country so they have to make up ground.
Still the question academic really considering the Russians wouldn't even have to leave home to flatten us
Frankly they are just interested in our and other NATO (Norway, etc) response times, since they would have to pass near our airspace if they want to send any long range bombers to Eastern coast of US (well unless they want to fly above entire Europe instead ). With us they can just squash us without any planes or even getting anywhere near outspace.
General public seems to maintain the view that they fight with nothing more than AKs and everything else is rusting away somewhere. While they are certainly nowhere near as strong as they were during heights of Cold War if they decided to have a war with us their land forces wouldn't even need to get involved.
Really can't see why everyone making such a big fuss about this.
). With us they can just squash us without any planes or even getting anywhere near outspace. General public seems to maintain the view that they fight with nothing more than AKs and everything else is rusting away somewhere. While they are certainly nowhere near as strong as they were during heights of Cold War if they decided to have a war with us their land forces wouldn't even need to get involved.
Really can't see why everyone making such a big fuss about this.
Frankly they are just interested in our and other NATO (Norway, etc) response times, since they would have to pass near our airspace if they want to send any long range bombers to Eastern coast of US (well unless they want to fly above entire Europe instead
Surely it would be easier to just go over the north pole then down long the cost or the Atlantic?