Zulu Alert

[ironroad]

Take any "alert" sortie run out of Keflavik, Soesterberg, Bittsburg, Galena, or King Salmon during the "Cold" period.


Now what if no one blinked or one side misinterpreted the other side's actions???

Would any of us be here today? Edited December 16, 2010 by ironroad

[mppd]

It happened all the time:

 

Cold War Shootdows: http://users.skynet.be/Emmanuel.Gustin/faq/shotdowns.html

[ironroad]

It happened all the time:

 

Cold War Shootdows: http://users.skynet.be/Emmanuel.Gustin/faq/shotdowns.html

You have to look no further than Korea to see an example of "Pot Shots" which were taken after the ceasefire (the war has not ended yet).

 

But how many of those types occurred directly between US and Russia?

Edited December 16, 2010 by ironroad

[JediMaster]

That C-130 shootdown over the Caucusus was direct IIRC.

[TheStig]

I wonder if F-22s will be taking over this role in the future... There was already a Raptor/Bear intercept over Alaska not too long ago.

[Lexx_Luthor]

Gordon describes what seemed to have been a long running play dogfight between F-4 and Yak-28 over the Baltic or up north somewhere. I'm guessing they just had a go at it. Its in his Yak-25-26-27-28 book someplace.

[Derk]

Does this one count too: Soesterberg 32 FIS F 15's intercepted an unmanned Flogger (pilot ejected over E. Germany) and escorted it until it ran out of fuel and crashed in Belgium (it WAS a kill of some kind, ha,ha)

But the fact is that even over our part of the Northsea the number of intercepts by our F16's (Bears mostly) is increasing again

 

Houdoe,

 

Derk