Originally Posted by
henra
Free- fall bombs would require you to overfly the target. You can be sure the Swedes won't sit there and wait until being over Stockholm.
So I don't see a real downside to sticking to this practice.
well at least this time Swedish AF managed to scramble the fast jets, not like the last time when Russian bombers were simulating an attack on Stockholm and Sweden had to ask Ramsteinn to scramble QRA from Lithuania…
ps you are forgetting Su24s were not alone but covered by Su27s, so a pair of Grippens might have disappeared from the radar if russkies intention would have been different.