From: "Adam Flinton" 


"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:3e64d675$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Flying close my ar*e. just about every photo of a TU95 or even Backfire
> had
> > an F14 or F4 or similar "in the shot" & pretty darn close.
>
> The Bear was a bomber, not an unarmed surveillance plane -- (isn't a TU95
> also a bomber and the backfire definitely was a bomber.)  And that was all
> during the cold war.
>

The bear was a long range aircraft period. The orion is a LRMP & so
were versions of the bear. Re the cold war etc that is when the aircrft
& missions were developed & thus the rules of the game. Don't
forget that the korean airliner that was downed by the soviets was taken to
be an rc135 by the soviets.

> > It's a "We know you're there" exercise.
>
> That hasn't been Koreans usual pattern, so it wasn't expected, so it's way
> more dangerous than if it were routine like the cold war stuff was.
>

How do you know?

RC135 operartions are published?

Adam

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