Originally Posted by
Sleeve Wing
international support eg. Suez. Malaya, Falklands, . . . The Cold War didn't just happen along the German border.
The problem is one of definition. Although the operations you cite happened
during the Cold War and with
Interceptors that were available during the Cold War they must be irrelevant as far as the Cold War itself.
Then the OP talks of Cold War Interceptors, well the majority were not on the IGB so really he would seem to be looking at Cold War Interceptors
not in Germany which tends to leave Air Forces in SACEUR and SACLANT AOR.
So perhaps you should be offering FAA activity in relation to Soviet activity. Now we know that the SNAF reacted to Allied Naval
exercises but it was the role of the RAF to react to LRAF and SNAF intrusions into the UK ADR was an
operational role, a subtly different role from air defence of the fleet during exercises.
Now if you can point to any Naval air defence operations then that would be different.