http://news.yahoo.com/britain-summons-russian-ambassador-bombers-intercepted-183747141.html

London (AFP) - Britain said it had summoned the Russian ambassador to London on Thursday after Russian bombers were found flying close to British airspace, saying the incident had disrupted civil aviation.

The move comes after a string of similar incidents and amid tense relations with Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine and a London inquiry into the poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.

The Ministry of Defence said such incursions by Russian planes were currently running at around one a month and that the latest happened off the south coast of England.

"Russian aircraft manoeuvres yesterday are part of an increasing pattern of out of area operations by Russian aircraft," the Foreign Office said in a statement.

"While the Russian planes did not enter sovereign UK airspace and were escorted by RAF Typhoons throughout the time they were in the UK area of interest, the Russian planes caused disruption to civil aviation.

"That is why we summoned the Russian Ambassador today to account for the incident."

The defence ministry said that the planes involved in the latest incident Wednesday were Tupolev Tu-95 bombers, known by their NATO classification as Russian "bears".

A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority, which regulates aviation, said he was "not sure where this idea has come from" that there had been disruption to civil aviation.

He suggested it may have been the two British Typhoons which caused any disruption as they may have flown through airspace near Bournemouth, southern England, where there is a small civilian airport.

"It was probably two Typhoons that were scrambled to intercept that caused some disruption," he said.

In November, four Russian navy warships were spotted sailing through the English Channel and were accompanied by a Royal Navy patrol boat.

The Soviet Uni...errr Russian Federation is back to its antics of almost causing mid-air collisions again (Or I guess they consider it a show of force with 60 year old bombers), while this has been going on for the better part of a year now, they seem to be getting a lot more adventurous. While no one should be worried because they are in international waters the biggest threat is mid-air collisions which there have been a lot of close calls recently. I can remember almost 4 off the top of my head that involved SU-27's flying without there radars or IFF tags on which is a big no no in a commercial flight zone. Russia likes to test NATO air defenses, any time they get NATO country's to send aircraft up they get to see the response, IE what aircraft they are using and what radars pick them up. Since Russia feels its backed into a corner with the Ukrainian crisis this is just there way of venting and keeping NATO on edge.

The TU-95 bear is a sexy looking bomber though, not gonna lie, keep flaunting it Russia.
 
So, thoughts, comments, questions on the impending Soviet invasion of Europe?

We laugh now.

We won't be laughing when we're living in Russian concentration camps.

And the Russians are living in Chinese concentration camps in turn.

Fucking Reds.

So they weren't flying in British airspace, and the disruption came from the British Typhoons flying through commercial airspace to reach the Bears, which were escorted the entire time?

Is this a clickbait article, or are we supposed to be upset at something?

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on January 29, 2015, 03:25:06 PM

So they weren't flying in British airspace, and the disruption came from the British Typhoons flying through commercial airspace to reach the Bears, which were escorted the entire time?

Is this a clickbait article, or are we supposed to be upset at something?

Well this isn't the first time its happened, its just another incident to add to the pile and admittedly your right this one is no where near as bad as the others especially the example I put below the article.

The articles title is definitely click bait though mentioning summoning the ambassador as if this was a major diplomatic emergency.

For sure there have been many instances of Russia measuring NATO's dick against its own, but this case seems pretty harmless.

Lol. Russia sends radial engined planes near the UK so they sent fucking Typhoons.

Why we haven't heard of the Scandinavians (or anywhere else in Europe) about this "incident" and freaking out as much I don't know.

Hard to believe it was an accident, that's for sure. Kind of hard to fly several hundred miles off the mainland just to land back in the mainland.