(robert arndt) writes:
Again, more words of ignorance spoken like the non-authority Keith is.
Hey Keith, it has already been done. On May 28, 1987 Matthias Rust, a
West German amatuer pilot, took his unarmed Cessna and flew 400 miles
through the USSR's air defenses (the world's greatest)to land on Red
Square.

When Rust did this wery flight, he took off at Helsinki, flew along
the Gulf of Finland to Leningrad (now St Petersburg), then sought
the railway track going to Moscow, which is practically very much
a straight line, and simply flew along the track to Moscow.

When Rust was flying somewhere close to Leningrad, he was catched
by two MiGs. The MiGs spinned for a while around the Cessna and
then simply let it be. I guess that a lonely Cessna was a very
confusing sight to MiG pilots and their commanders just did'n know
what to do.

Just a few years before there had been the shameful tragedy when
soviet fighter shot down the korean passenger plane on the Japan Sea.
I think that soviets wanted to avoid, as much as ever possible,
anything like that happening again. Maybe this was a major
reason why an odd Cessna could fly straight through soviet
defence.
--
Walter