Image credit: BAF Western aircraft usually probed Soviet air defenses during the Cold War. Those aircraft were often intercepted by Su-27s. As told by Yefim Gordon and Dmitriy Komissarov in their book Sukhoi Su-27 & 30/33/34/35, for example, in just three months of 1997 alone, the Russian PVO’s 10th Air …
Read More »Russia Releases Video Of A Su-27 Flanker Intercepting U.S. B-1B Bomber Flying Over Black Sea
A Russian Su-27 Flanker escorts a U.S. B-1 over the Black Sea on May 29, 2020. (Image credit: Russian MOD) Russian MoD released a clip showing a Su-27 Flanker approaching a high-flying U.S. B-1B Bomber somewhere over the Baltic Sea. Interesting, even though it does not show anything nefarious. A …
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