and mentions at the bottom "3 seperate incidents"? I suspect a confused journo, but anyone know if any Blackjacks have been spotted recently? Wouldn't have thought so!
There was indeed 3 incidents of Russian aircraft running west in the time from from wedensday to friday, 2 flights of Bears and one Blackjack flight. The Tu-160 Blackjack flight did however stay in the Barents sea. The QRA flight that went super over my house on friday was a back up QRA flight on it's way to relive the first 2 F-16s following the Blackjack flight.
(All according to the Norwegian Joint Operational HQ press officer.)
The Russians claimed that is was a normal training flight. Funny how they invited the international press to see one of the Bear flights as it landed at Engels.
Coordinated
pr stunt? Nahh......
