RAF intercepts Russian aircraft over Baltic

[Regie Mental]

Story on RAF web with nice pics of fully armed Flankers: Baltic Air Policing (http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/baltic-air-policing-18062014)

[togsdragracing]

When these encounters take place are there any radio exchanges or is it all visual?

[PPRuNeUser0172]

"Outwards turn for combat, GO":\

[Take That]

Dirty,

And hopefully you remember that as soon as they turn out, you turn in!

[BOAC]

You have been reading Keith Holland's 'Art of Coarse Combat'?

[27mm]

Ah, the Raynham Split......:ok:

[Martin the Martian]

Again, it makes you realise just how big an aircraft the Flanker is.

[Sook]

And how small the Russian Air Force's budget for aircraft washes is!

[Squirrel 41]

"Again, it makes you realise just how big an aircraft the Flanker is."

Cocky IntO... "Problem with a FLANKER is range - it can only carry 11 tonnes of fuel internally*"

QWI "Err, right. So exactly how much fuel do you define as "a little"?"

:ugh:

(Sukhoi Su-35 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-35), before anyone gets concerned)

[radar101]

The Times had a nice picture today but the caption, referring to an "SU-25 Flanker" spoiled their credibility.

My father's Daily Express got it right but spoiled it by having to circle the Typhoon so that we could tell which was which!!