Russian bomber cuts into Japanese airspace

YI SG

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20080209-48851.html

YI SG

22 planes were scrambled. unco-ordinated or simply over-kill.

a-Lost-9uY SG

waaa v fierce

Scania L113 lover SG

22?! Laughing

tankee1981 SG

I am quite sure Russian bombers have intruded or at least attempted to intrude into Japanese airspace before during the Cold War.

Therefore it is logical to assumed that they should have worked out some kind of working plans for escorting nosey survelliance aircraft away from their airspace. The USAF and USN is not too far away to consult too.

I am quite surprised at why they need to scrambled 22 aircraft. Further more they have quite a few very capable AWACS planes. I will have to agree that this is uncoordinated and the bomber caught them by surprise if the news is real.

tankfanatic SG

probably 22 aircraft all over the nation. The commander probably assumed that it is not the only area that the russian intruded. so he deployed 22 air craft scatered searching for any other intrusion

Skye2 SG

It was around 400 km from Tokyo and USN F-18s were scrambled too.

probably 22 aircraft all over the nation. The commander probably assumed that it is not the only area that the russian intruded. so he deployed 22 air craft scatered searching for any other intrusion

No la. They got good radar unlike Uganda.

kenn3th SG

To think that our f16s was an overkill.

duotiga83 SG

is way OVERKILL......

fudgester SG

Uhh..... I agree that it's probably due to a lack of coordination.

Perhaps several bases got a bogie on their radar screens simultaneously, and they all individually scrambled their own fighters without some sort of unified communications system to decide who gets activated.

alwaysdisturbed SG

nothing bad happened, thats why everyone is saying overkill.

its better to overkill than to be killed! hehe.

the Bear SG

i don't think it's overkill..

there are two schools of thought.. you send up just enough, or you send up a heck of a lot..

one is to send one up and buzz the bomber.. this tells the russians that "i know you're here.. this plane is all that's needed to shoot you down.. and you're too insignificant for us to send up more.. the hell with you..."

the other is to send up a heck of a lot.. this tells the russians that "you asswipe.. this is so many we can throw up into the air at no notice.. mess with us and we will hurt you badly"

spartan_6 SG

This dos not reflect well on Japan

the Bear SG

This dos not reflect well on Japan

you sure?

it reflects worse on the Russians..

the bastards think it's the bloody cold war all over again..

what right do they have to send a bloody WARPLANE over another's airspace?

that is technically an act of war..

the Japanese did well not to shoot it down.. because they had every right to do so..

ktk SG

you sure?

it reflects worse on the Russians..

the bastards think it's the bloody cold war all over again..

what right do they have to send a bloody WARPLANE over another's airspace?

that is technically an act of war..

the Japanese did well not to shoot it down.. because they had every right to do so..

this reminds me of the china plane that collided with the US spyplane...

lol then which school of thought is dat?

1) knn we dun have bullets or missles to shoot it down so we send a human meatball to ram it down

2) 2 plane go up and 2 plane come down.. what ? one is not one of ours? WTF?