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F-104 Starfighter Pilot Recalls His Life Intercepting Soviet Bombers During the Cold War.

June 16, 2020 David Cenciotti

Fascinating stories and photographs from another era. As many of you will remember, last week we published an interesting story that included rare photographs of NATO fighter jets taken from Soviet bombers and maritime patrol […]

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

April 14, 2016 David Cenciotti

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

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

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 […]