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That time a Soviet bomber crashed into the sea after buzzing a U.S. aircraft carrier

April 14, 2016 David Cenciotti 5

Low pass with a deadly ending. Low passages of Russian planes on U.S. Navy warships (and vice versa) are somehow frequent as the recent flybys of Russian Su-24 Fencer bombers on USS Donald Cook in […]

Video: How the UK QRA responded to Soviet intruders at the times of the Phantom

February 23, 2015 David Cenciotti 1

Here’s UK Quick Reaction Alert in the 1970s. Last week, UK’s air defense was once again put to the test by two Russian strategic bombers that flew off Cornwall during a routine long-range patrol over […]

Pilots explain how Navy’s F-4 Phantoms intercepted Soviet Bombers near U.S. aircraft carriers

August 11, 2014 Dario Leone 11

Developed as interceptor to protect U.S. Navy’s Carrier Battle Groups (CVBG), the F-4 had frequent close encounters with Soviet Tu-95 and Tu-16 bombers near aircraft carriers around the world U.S. Navy F-4 Phantom jets were […]