Britain said its Typhoon fighter jets intercepted two Russian maritime patrol bomber aircraft in international airspace north of Scotland on Monday, within NATO's northern air policing area.
The only thing eyebrow raising about this is that they were bombers (assuming they actually were). Normally this sort of thing is done with recon aircraft.
Keep in mind these were aircraft that had been pulled out of retirement when Putin figured out their missiles are terrible and they don’t have as many as claimed, they do probably still have billions of lbs of conventional bombs.
The only thing eyebrow raising about this is that they were bombers (assuming they actually were). Normally this sort of thing is done with recon aircraft.
Nah they’ve been running bears into disputed territories and known airspace violations, namely several excursions into Alaska.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/us-intercepts-russian-bombers-off-alaska-2-straight/story%3Fid=97260923
Keep in mind these were aircraft that had been pulled out of retirement when Putin figured out their missiles are terrible and they don’t have as many as claimed, they do probably still have billions of lbs of conventional bombs.