“They didn’t catch it”: NATO fighters could not find the Russian Tu-95

A curious incident occurred on February 26 this year over the Norwegian Sea. Aviation NATO tried to find in this area the Russian Tu-95, which made a scheduled flight, but in the end "was left with nothing."

According to Avialive, on February 26, having received an alarm signal about the discovery of the Russian strategic Tu-95 bomber over the Norwegian Sea, five NATO fighters and a tanker were lifted into the air, which went to the area of ​​the alleged discovery of the Russian aircraft for its identification and further escort.

It is reported that two British Typhoon fighters from the Lossimuth air base and an Airbus Voyager tanker from Bryz-Norton were sent to intercept the Russian aircraft. In addition, two Norwegian F-16 fighters from the Bodo air base and the Dutch F-15 were lifted into the air.

NATO fighters carried out a long search for the Russian Tu-95, but as a result, and without having found it, all the fighters returned to their airfields.

Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that there was no Tu-95 in that area, and two Tu-142 anti-submarine aircraft made a planned flight over the neutral waters of the Barents and Norwegian Seas. It turns out, "not that caught."

The crews of the aircraft have worked out the skills of following a given course over a non-reference area, the coordination of piloting in the absence of ground-based radio-technical navigation aids. The flight lasted about 12 hours, the planes returned safely to the airfield.

Tu-95 aircraft in this area did not perform

- said the press service of the North fleet.

Comments

[Viktor Sergeev]

Do you see the Tu95 there? Not? And he is there.

[neri73-r]

Quote: Victor Sergeev

Do you see the Tu95 there? Not? And he is there.

Tu-142 is just a modification of the Tu-95. But the fact that they were not found, already says a lot.

[Sergey39]

Yes, they just have "unparalleled in the world" generators of cover fields Or NATO fighters have forgotten how to catch mice.

[neri73-r]

Quote: Sergey39

Yes, they just have "unparalleled in the world" generators of cover fields Or NATO fighters have forgotten how to catch mice.

The second is more likely.

[orionvitt]

Quote: Sergey39

NATO fighters have forgotten how to catch mice.

What a comedic story looms. The object was not found, well at least they themselves did not get lost. In addition, TU-95, this is not a needle in a haystack, with modern means of detection.

[Berber]

That's really stealth bombers, where is the B-2 spirit.

[knn54]

We looked the wrong way ...

[seregatara1969]

Tu-142 is the largest. Not small. Big. To hide this is a great talent. Respect and respect to flyers

[Letter 7]

Quote: knn54

We looked the wrong way ...

I remembered how now, in the distant seventies, one of our ensigns bought cigarettes in a store, either Tu-134 or Tu-154:
- For me, please, a pack of "Tu".
- Which one? This one?
-No, "Tu"!

[Alexey RA]

Quote: neri73-r

Tu-142 is just a modification of the Tu-95.

More precisely, the Tu-142 was made on the basis of the Tu-95RC.
But the story did not end there - and already on the basis of the modified Tu-142, our current strategic missile carrier, the Tu-95MS, was made the main one.

[Piramidon]

Quote: neri73-r

Tu-142 is just a modification of the Tu-95. But the fact that they were not found, already says a lot.

It is possible that they discovered the Tu-142. (Well, I do not believe that such a goal, which visually, without locators can be seen for a hundred kilometers, they did not detect). But, the fact is that they were then sent specifically to look for the Tu-95, which, of course, they did not find, since it was not there.

[venik]

Quote: Victor Sergeev

Do you see the Tu95 there? Not? And he is there.

======
Is this an anecdote "about a gopher"?
Exactly - "in the subject"! Directly "removed from the tongue"!

[eklmn]

Actually, the editorial office needs to remember / know that today is not April 1st.
From the article:
“As Avialive writes, February 26th, receiving a signal ...”
I decided to ask Google about Avialive, and Google asks me what I mean:
Did you mean:
Avayalive Availive Avaya Live Av Alive
those. there is no such site, but there are many such names on twitter and instagram.
The editors have fun / fooling around - they told a joke and read the reaction of the patriots. It is not good to giggle ... !!

[nikon7717]

It’s good that 5 Air Force planes returned to the base, otherwise it would have happened like in Bermuda with 5 US torpedo bombers, flew out and disappeared in clear weather. Well, we didn’t have to look for ourselves

[g1washntwn]

How strange you are. For individual vessels, Twitter comments are already proof.
Here we play, here we play again, but here we do not play because I wrapped the fish here?

[RADIOACTIVE]

Lounged

[Kurare]

A few days later the gene. sec NATO Stoltenberg will accuse the Russian Federation of violating the Negotiation of not introducing stealth technologies in old bombers.
PS: Not bad, so they burned fuel

[Pete mitchell]

Quote: Kurare

A few days later the gene. sec NATO Stoltenberg will accuse the Russian Federation of ...

no matter what, he has such a job.
Question to the author

A curious incident occurred on February 26 ... and the Dutch F-15

where are the firewood from?

[pipetro]

where are the firewood from?

https://rg.ru/2020/02/26/reg-szfo/minoborony-rf-nazvalo-samolety-uskolznuvshie-ot-istrebitelej-nato.html

https://www.airlive.net/breaking-raf-typhoon-fighter-jets-scrambled-after-a-russian-tu-95-has-been-spotted-west-of-norway/

[Kurare]

Quote: Pete Mitchell

Question to the author
A curious incident occurred on February 26 ... and the Dutch F-15
where are the firewood from?

Yes, I was also surprised where the Dutch got their F-15s from.

[pipetro]

There, in the original source, only about the 16th is said, although it is clear that the article was edited, so maybe they had a little

[Kurare]

Quote: pipetro

There, in the original source, only the 16ths are said ...

Then, we will send to the category "Blackfire".

[Pete mitchell]

So let's write

Quote: Kurare

in the category about

Everyone completed the task, not all successfully

[Mouse]

Broke off ... but spent the fuel ...

[Livonetc]

Modification of Tu95N with TuNevidimka technology.

[Thrifty]

Have they even seen Tu142? And then it turns out that Tu142 was also absent in the sky, according to NATO flying sights!

[Jcvai]

They simply accompanied him at a safe distance, just in case, heading in the opposite direction from the direction indicated by the radars.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: JcVai

They simply accompanied him at a safe distance, just in case, heading in the opposite direction from the direction indicated by the radars.

How did we joke in our youth?

The most effective method of karate - exhausting the enemy’s strength

[Amateur]

Again, the tax authorities broke the ass?

[asv363]

And AFAR in addition.

[anjey]

Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that there was no Tu-95 in that area, and two Tu-142 anti-submarine aircraft made a planned flight over the neutral waters of the Barents and Norwegian Seas. It turns out, "not that caught."

Visually, there is almost no difference between these planes, ours did not use "autonomous cloud" stealth technologies .

[savage1976]

That had to be stated, the Tu-95 was flying in the latest development of the Russian military-industrial complex. Invisible hat.

[Runoway]

I can recognize the sound of TU-95 at home on the couch with the TV turned on. You can only confuse it with the AN-22, but it is no less visual. Keep it up NATO pilots
By the way, a joke in the subject
NATO air forces are recruiting pilots. Receptionist is sitting
commission (K).
German comes in (N).
Q: Do you have any flight experience?
N: 15 years on a bomber !!!
K: Is there any experience in fighting?
N: That's right! Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Cambodia !!!
Q: How much do you want to receive?
N: 3.000 EURO !!!
Q: Justify why exactly 3.000?
N: 1.000 - for me, 1.000 - for family, 1.000 - for insurance !!!!
K: Great. We will inform you about the results. Go ahead.
Amerikos comes in (A).
Q: Do you have any flight experience?
A: 20 years on the fighter !!!
K: Is there any experience in fighting?
A: That's right! Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Croatia !!!
Q: How much do you want to receive?
A: 6.000 EURO !!!
Q: Justify why exactly 6.000?
A: 2.000 - for me, 2.000 - for the family, 2.000 - for insurance !!!!
K: Great. We will inform you about the results. Go ahead.

Russian enters (P).
Q: Do you have any flight experience?
R: What are you, stupid people? I am sick of the plane. I puke constantly !!!
K: Is there any experience in fighting?
R: Yes, I'm a pacifist. I can’t even kill a fly. I'm not in the army
served !!!
Q: How much do you want to receive?
R: 9.000 EURO !!!
Q: Justify why exactly 9.000?
R: Well, why? 3.000 - to me, 3.000 - to you, well, but for 3.000 and German
ready to fly !!!

[CBR600]

Fire !! Russians have a new technology that has no analogues in the world - SuperSTELS! Serial! Service life not less than 12 hours. Masks completely the whole squadron.

[Morgan]

"NATO fighters could not find the Russian Tu-95" - this is probably an anecdote?

[Russian_man]

))) the fishermen were fishing ...)))

[Avior]

It would be very good if there were links, otherwise you won’t understand anything from the article
But if the link was ....
https://www.airlive.net/breaking-raf-typhoon-fighter-jets-scrambled-after-a-russian-tu-95-has-been-spotted-west-of-norway/
It would immediately become clear that
1. The British did not look for Tu-95, and no one says that they found it in the Norwegian Sea (they write that off the western coast of Norway, that is, the North Sea generally works out.)

The RAF aircraft are flying to Shetland Islands after a Russian TU-95 Bear bomber has been spotted near Norway coast, heading to West.

2. The flight of the British was through the territory of England to their Shetland Islands after reports of a Tu-95 near Norway

3. The point was that after the message, two English fighters and a tanker quickly flew out and patrolled between England and the Shetland Islands, far from Norway.
4. The Barents Sea is a huge distance from the scene, it is not clear what the flights to the Barents are to do with it. Where are the Shetland Islands and where is the Barents Sea.
In general, it’s good if the links gave, it would be clearer what the essence of the issue in the article

[g1washntwn]

And what is it geographically and tactically refutes? All the same, they were profane. We didn't go for a distant interception and decided to wait in our kitchen when he himself would fly closer because he was "... heading to West". But the Russians again did not come to the war and broke off the whole "victory".

[Avior]

In the source text there is not a word that the British were going to intercept at all
They just flew out to cover their islands just in case.
It’s impossible to understand from the text whether it was really discovered or was the introduction to the exercises

[g1washntwn]

Quote: Avior

There is not a word in the source text that the British were going to intercept at all, they just flew out to cover their islands just in case.

Do you at least understand that all these excuses are reminiscent of kindergarten - "I won't because I don't want to ..."
Everything is there: you also write "after a Russian TU-95 Bear bomber has been spotted near Norway coast, heading to West. "That is, they discovered (as they thought) a strategic bomber and threw three NATO fighters on its identification and abruptly threw the British with a tanker," just in case "? Key phrases" strategic "," bomber "and "to the west".

[Avior]

I don’t know how you translated this phrase for yourself, but it’s not there that the British sent to intercept, search, identify, or even just to that area.
but there is a map where you can clearly see where they flew and where they were on duty after that, obviously not to the coast of Norway

[Vasyan1971]

(With a Latvian accent): Ne palluchylas.

[Ax Matt]

So, it turns out they did not see the Tu-142 pairs? Well, guys, NATO, you have something completely ... relaxed. Well, yes, this is only for the best.

[Alexander E]

I am sure they are fooling around, or, most likely, their press is driving a fool .. Our objects of this kind are visible from afar. This does not change the essence, there is tension, the spring is clamped, the swollen ones will not calm down ...

[pafegosoff]

Well, did they find the Tu-142? They are similar to the 95th ...

[Old26]

Quote: Ax Matt

So, it turns out they did not see the Tu-142 pairs? Well, guys, NATO, you have something completely ... relaxed. Well, yes, this is only for the best.

Actually more like a fake. About 1000 km from the Bodo da Barents Sea airbase, from Britain, from where fighters and the tanker started, actually about 3000 km. I wonder how, how they could detect or not detect something at such a distance. If you really picked it up and intercepted it is not known where - to knock on the head you need the navigator of the combat command. But most likely a fake

[g1washntwn]

The British zone to the west. The Norwegians and the Netherlands were much closer. It's about "all the valiant NATO."

[Ros 56]

Here are burdocks, they were around the corner.