9-11 Response, was F-15 grounding

schrieb:

What makes you think there is anything special about Germany?

true.

Soviet Bloc aircraft routinely played the game with most of Western
Europe as well as Asia.

that leaves the question open: did the other side (NATO, USA) play the
same game, too?

#m
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Jay Honeck wrote in news:705723df-b4f1-45d7-ac21-
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3. Did word of the Soviet incursions into German air space ever leak
out at the time? *I don't remember reading anything about this, back
then -- and you'd think it would have been big news.

Sigh, there were Soviet incursions into just about every part of
European airspace, Asian airspace, and American airspace.

They would turn around as soon as someone came out to greet them.

It was all a game and both sides played.

There were occasional pictures of Bear crews waving to the US fighters
published in the military oriented aviation mags; it was no secret.

Sure, those intercepts were all over the periodicals at the time --
but they were usually up near Alaska, or off the coast near Cuba.
Never, to my recollection, did we hear about any along the highly
sensitive, highly defended East/West German border -- as the OP
discusses.

That would have been awfully big news, methinks.
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Well, judging from your obvious lack of education on just about everythng,
you might have missed it since you obviously don't read anyhting more
educational than the back of your rice crispies box in the morning.


Bertie

Jay Honeck wrote in
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I previously posted this as a reply on the original thread, but that
thread is getting so old I thought a bunch of interested folks might
miss it, so I thought I'd repost it as a new thread. I've taken the
time to correct and clarify some of the things I wrote in the
original version.

Jay and perhaps some others seem to think that we should have
launched every available alert aircraft during the 9-11 attacks.

Big snip of fascinating post

Thanks, Scott, for the great post. Very interesting -- and scary --
stuff.




Aren't we mr reasonable all the sudden?

Bertie