Russian Jets Flying Near

Russian Bombers Probing English Military Exercises

It is interesting to see that even in today's times brinkmanship is still quite healthy. The bear has chosen to stick its head farther out to the see how the gentlemen was doing in military exercises. Its almost like siblings fighting each other...except here is it just a bit of flying expensive jets with big bombs.

On a certain level, this scares the bejesus out of me. However, on many other levels, I think I am comfortable here. We need mature international relations. I tend to think of the countries of the Earth much like the ancient Greek city states. Among ourselves, we will fight like animals, but when there is a greater threat we will bond together. So I still hold some hope...

"The Russians obviously thought it might be worth coming to have a look at what we were up to and probably take some photos. It's a throwback to the Cold War when they used to fly in regularly to poke and prod at the edges of British airspace and test our reaction times. It's normal to let such aircraft know we're there by pulling up alongside them and they left quietly. The whole encounter probably lasted 20 minutes." - Keith Wardlaw, Sqn Leader