The Russian MiG-31 fighter intercepted two American B-1B strategic bombers over the Barents Sea

Western aviation Intensified not only in the southern, but also in the northern direction, a pair of American B-1B Lancer strategic bombers tried to “probe” the Russian border over the Barents Sea. Takeoff of the Russian MiG-31 fighter from the duty forces of the Northern air defense fleet forced US Air Force strategists to reverse course. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

According to the military department, on March 24, airspace control equipment detected an unidentified air target over the Barents Sea, moving towards the Russian state border. As noted, the goal was group. For testing, a MiG-31 fighter-interceptor from the duty air defense forces was lifted into the air.

The crew of the Russian aircraft, having arrived at the interception point, identified the air targets as American B-1B Lancer strategic bombers. Having noticed the Russian interceptor, the Americans changed course to the opposite, moving away from the Russian border.

As the Russian fighter approached, the American strategic bombers adjusted their flight course, moving away and then turning around from the State Border of the Russian Federation

- said in a statement.

The Russian MiG-31 returned to its home airfield, where it continued to remain on duty. As noted, recently Western aircraft prefer to immediately move away when Russian fighters approach, since they do not rule out that Russian Aerospace Forces pilots may take actions that threaten the lives of NATO aircraft crews.

Comments

[Ross xnumx]

Or you could have waited and slapped... Following the example of the Patriot crew...
With great pleasure...

[Lev_Russia]

What are you waiting for...??? They wouldn’t have entered our airspace anyway, so following the “Patriot calculation example” it wouldn’t work, and to slap us differently would threaten us with big troubles... This is a common test of our “weakness” and we hardly need it now a war on two real fronts... We should first end with one victory...

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: Lev_Russia

What are you waiting for...??? They wouldn't have entered our airspace anyway.

Who knows...Remember how the American "Virginia" was hiding during the TF exercises, but after an acoustic warning it went into the "deep sea"?

An American Virginia-class nuclear submarine was discovered in Russian territorial waters near the Kuril Islands. Naval exercises take place in this region. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the submarine was expelled from its territorial waters. But how she was expelled is not reported. One can only guess.

So here you could “play”...
But you don’t need to be afraid of them... They bombed the airfield:

On October 8, 1950 at 16.17 local time, two US Air Force Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star (Meteor) fighters violated the state border of the USSR and, going almost 100 km deep, attacked the Soviet military field airfield Sukhaya Rechka 165 km from Vladivostok, in the Khasansky district.

Otherwise they have already developed some kind of imaginary sense of superiority...

[bandabas]

What if they enter our airspace? Will they spank or not? Or the guarantor will continue to draw colorless lines,

[Hariton laptev]

On February 12, 1988, in the Black Sea, they let two people poke around and then piled them on them. That’s what the Black Sea bulk is called! So here we could have waited a little.

[fruc]

Lev_Russia
This is a common test of us being "weak"

This is not a “weak” test, but an identification of the composition and types of air defense forces on duty (aviation, air defense systems, radio equipment). Perhaps there was also an RC-135 working nearby.

[Thrifty]

Our pilot needed a spiller in front of them in afterburner, as close as possible! Let them accuse them of “unprofessionalism,” but they will fly as far as possible from our borders! It’s a pity that they don’t attach a container of shit to the MiG so that they can drain the shit onto the planes of their sworn “friends” !

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: Thrifty

Our pilot had to fly in front of them in afterburner, as close as possible!

If you wait for the moment and shoot down, like our Su-24 was shot down in Turkey, and bring a bunch of apologies like: “Don’t be too upset, we weren’t upset when you blew up our joint venture...”

[abrakadabre]

It’s a pity that they don’t attach a container of shit to the MiG so that they can dump the shit on the planes of their sworn “friends”!

At those speeds, the impact of the feces is comparable to the impact of a blacksmith's hammer. Which is steam.

[bone1]

The favorite pastime of pilots is to chase each other, since they haven’t violated the border, let them fly, but those who violated should simply be shot down

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: Bone1

Pilots' favorite pastime is racing each other

[HAM]

Well, how can we not remember Vasya Tsymbal!? He was a desperate man, you can’t spoil him.... he taught some to become impudent...

[Aag]

I could be wrong, I'm not an expert. But, it seems, previously duty air defense crews flew out in pairs (at least) to intercept?

[Lev_Russia]

It is unlikely that our Air Force can now afford the luxury of flying in pairs to any provocation... Airplanes are also needed for combat operations...

[kit88]

There are two couples on duty. One is on duty in Readiness No. 1,2,3 crew in the DS building or on the plane; the other is intensified - the crew is resting at home.
To raise a couple at once, it is necessary for the air wing to fly towards us, usually one side is raised to intercept, the reinforcement arrives at the duty flight.
That's all. 4 planes can be lifted into the air within an hour. Further bringing the regiment to increased levels of combat readiness - the time required for flight readiness for 1 side, pair, flight, starting squadron, regiment is already calculated in hours.
And the Northern Fleet has one regiment of interceptors. Although there was information that deck crews are now also on duty.

[Aag]

Quote: kit88

There are two couples on duty. One is on duty in Readiness No. 1,2,3 crew in the DS building or on the plane; the other is intensified - the crew is resting at home.
To raise a couple at once, it is necessary for the air wing to fly towards us, usually one side is raised to intercept, the reinforcement arrives at the duty flight.
That's all. 4 planes can be lifted into the air within an hour. Further bringing the regiment to increased levels of combat readiness - the time required for flight readiness for 1 side, pair, flight, starting squadron, regiment is already calculated in hours.
And the Northern Fleet has one regiment of interceptors. Although there was information that deck crews are now also on duty.

Thank you for your answer.
But! What times are you writing about? : "... the crew is resting at home...".
You will also write about the Strategic Missile Forces in a similar way!
No, I didn’t want to offend in any way, I wanted to understand (within the limits permitted by the 010th order, - or, - there is already another one, - after Serdyukov’s departure?)...

[kit88]

Sorry, I won’t say anything about the Strategic Missile Forces.
What didn’t you like about “resting at home”?
This is 4 Readiness, during official hours they are engaged in daily activities, during non-working hours they are at home.
The technicians are obviously at home, because they were on duty the previous day.

It seems like this was the case under the Union, in the 90s and 00s.
Or maybe now everything has changed, indeed, it was a long time ago, a legend of deep antiquity.

[Aag]

Quote: kit88

Sorry, I won’t say anything about the Strategic Missile Forces.
What didn’t you like about “resting at home”?
This is 4 Readiness, during official hours they are engaged in daily activities, during non-working hours they are at home.
The technicians are obviously at home, because they were on duty the previous day.

It seems like this was the case under the Union, in the 90s and 00s.
Or maybe now everything has changed, indeed, it was a long time ago, a legend of deep antiquity.

"...Technicians, they are understandably at home, because they were on duty the previous day... "...
... No... (I'm shocked - but, really, - I wanted to understand...)...
I remember in the seventies, my parents were provided with an apartment... It was in Riga. New microdistrict, 9-story building, everything is possible... Only here... The runway of the military airfield (Spilve) is across the highway, parallel. Yeah, and the Migi-21s came... They refused...
That's not what we're talking about. ..
We lived quite happily... But BG 1 for the Air Force meant sitting in the cockpits of aircraft (fuelled, armed), perhaps without turning on masks... The second shift (I don’t know - before or after duty in BG1) was at the airfields (I drank tea, played chess, backgammon... - but I was on the territory of a military unit!). A resting person, a change of shift, - taking care of family affairs - wives, children... By the way, as a rule - then these were not “problems”! We went to visit each other, without warning, just like that, spontaneously... But, that's a completely different story...))).
The Strategic Missile Forces were the last to be broken... Not completely! The system built under the Union is partially alive!
IMHO, to a large extent it is this fact that cools the desires of the adversaries...

[VPK-65]

Quote: kit88

This is 4 Readiness, during official hours they are engaged in daily activities, during non-working hours they are at home.

I haven’t heard about “Readiness No. 4”, but I wrote about the rest in a comment here:
https://topwar.ru/237856-nad-chernym-morem-vblizi-rossijskoj-granicy-pojavljalis-tri-samoleta-vvs-velikobritanii.html#findcomment14249953
According to “Readiness No. 3,” we all slept together, and another airfield was on duty. We were on duty during the day, and they were on duty at night, so during the day we never had less than “Readiness No. 2”. If anything: military unit 15509, take-off nearby:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B059'20.7%22N+56%C2%B022'03.0%22E/@38.9890833,56.3675,733m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d38.9890833!4d56.3675?entry=ttu
PS and “Readiness No. 4”, as for me, is a troupe Have you ever destroyed your own airfield? And I had... we decided to somehow play tag with the ATS-59 tractor (like running in tanks for lack of them), and we hooked up the communication cable that went from the air defense control to the transmitting stations (communication with the pilots was lost). Do you remember the scene from the film “Retaliation” - “the coastal battery is destroyed”? Here it was almost the same thing, 4 of us idiots stood at the control point in front of the operational duty officer, and he called the district headquarters and reported: the airfield has been destroyed, there is no communication, I can’t control the planes. And we have a chill down our spines... The neighbors' airfield (Nebedag) was on duty for 3 hours, and we rolled out 10 liters of alcohol to the captain of the communications company and he connected the cable in 12-4 hours. Is it possible to call those days readiness No. XNUMX?

[kit88]

I read your post of March 6th.
That's interesting.
Almost everything is like that.
Only Readiness No. 1, this is not takeoff. Takeoff is "Air"
At Readiness No. 1, the crew occupies a workplace in the cockpit.
And the crew is constantly in the house in Readiness No. 3.
The board hung:
Air
Readiness
New target

Of course, I had a question: did you have pilots in pairs constantly in the cockpit? All 12 hours? Did the technician and the mechanic wait 24 hours under the plane on the concrete with headsets on for commands? 24 hours!
Are you seriously?

According to “Readiness No. 3,” we all slept together, and another airfield was on duty.

What does “on duty” mean?

And for the fourth readiness I will tell you.
Late nineties. Collapse and devastation. There are 3 IAPs in the building. In reality, there is only one airfield on duty. The other two regiments place one pair in the DS and put one technician in the house. Of the pilots at night, only the officer on duty at the release comes in to sleep. This is such readiness...
Moreover, somehow the operational officer calls on the phone (!), the chief picks up the phone... Air! speaks. Yeah, now, let’s guess who will fly. We laughed for a long time about who connected the telephone wires wrong and what it was all about...

[VPK-65]

Quote: kit88

I read your post of March 6th. Interesting. Almost everything is like that.

If you're interested, here are a couple more links to my comments with photos from the army album:
https://topwar.ru/220443-press-sekretar-prezidenta-rf-rasskazal-o-doverii-glavy-gosudarstva-k-generalu-surovikinu.html#findcomment13663813
https://topwar.ru/219976-udarivshie-po-chongarskomu-mostu-rakety-storm-shadow-byli-zapuscheny-s-frontovyh-bombardirovschikov-su-24-vozdushnyh-sil-vsu.html#findcomment13641673

Quote: kit88

Only Readiness No. 1, this is not takeoff. Takeoff is "Air"

I don’t know specifically about the phrase that is said in the air traffic control room and the pilot hears it in the cockpit (they command takeoff and landing, and we at the air control center only control the plane that has taken off). Throughout the airfield there was a GHS (Loud Talking Communication) and Readiness No. 1 was a sorry scream from all the speakers (no displays). You need to instantly jump up to the GGS, switch the receive button to transmit and, shouting your call sign, run and turn on EVERYTHING (the plane is already in the air). This is for all RTO (Radio Technical Support) equipment. And if the “Alarm” command sounds, it’s almost the same thing + also a Kalash car from the unit will drive up and give you a ride.

Quote: kit88

Of course, I had a question: did you have pilots in pairs constantly in the cockpit? All 12 hours?

We sat for exactly 2 hours, but this was hell - the temperature in the shade was +48, ​​and in the sun it was generally a fox. We got out of the cabins wet, but there was no other way - if you looked at the map, then Iran was 70 km away from us and their airfield was right next to each other. 70 km is nothing, so even from Readiness No. 2 we barely had time to gain altitude, and border violations were stable, 2-3 times a week at least.

Quote: kit88

What does “on duty” mean?

I was on duty, which means just like we sat in the cabins, only at night (it’s cool at night, so it’s easier, no matter how many hours). It is true that sometimes we were pulled at night, but this was rare. BUT all this was on days when there were no flights, and this is not so often. And if there were flights - for up to 14 days in a row, all the planes were in the air, a continuous carousel - they were shooting at the training ground, training bombing, interceptions, etc. In short, you can’t sleep, unlike the flight crew - they change, but we don’t..

[Aag]

Quote: VPK-65

Quote: kit88

This is 4 Readiness, during official hours they are engaged in daily activities, during non-working hours they are at home.

I haven’t heard about “Readiness No. 4”, but I wrote about the rest in a comment here:
https://topwar.ru/237856-nad-chernym-morem-vblizi-rossijskoj-granicy-pojavljalis-tri-samoleta-vvs-velikobritanii.html#findcomment14249953
According to “Readiness No. 3,” we all slept together, and another airfield was on duty. We were on duty during the day, and they were on duty at night, so during the day we never had less than “Readiness No. 2”. If anything: military unit 15509, take-off nearby:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B059'20.7%22N+56%C2%B022'03.0%22E/@38.9890833,56.3675,733m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d38.9890833!4d56.3675?entry=ttu
PS and “Readiness No. 4”, as for me, is a troupe Have you ever destroyed your own airfield? And I had... we decided to somehow play tag with the ATS-59 tractor (like running in tanks for lack of them), and we hooked up the communication cable that went from the air defense control to the transmitting stations (communication with the pilots was lost). Do you remember the scene from the film “Retaliation” - “the coastal battery is destroyed”? Here it was almost the same thing, 4 of us idiots stood at the control point in front of the operational duty officer, and he called the district headquarters and reported: the airfield has been destroyed, there is no communication, I can’t control the planes. And we have a chill down our spines... The neighbors' airfield (Nebedag) was on duty for 3 hours, and we rolled out 10 liters of alcohol to the captain of the communications company and he connected the cable in 12-4 hours. Is it possible to call those days readiness No. XNUMX?

I admit, I haven’t followed your links yet...
Regarding text information, that’s a thing of the past...
I seriously doubt it has gotten better. (one thing that saves us is that this trend seems to be happening not only with us, but also with the adversary...
Thanks to all the pilots who responded, they clarified things a little... No complaints (of course, we need to look at the time, place of events...).
But, in the last two months of service before dismissal, I spent two nights at home. Yes, it was a little better before. (99th year. 29th rd Strategic Missile Forces). I'm not complaining. I'm telling you. I'm worried about the current state of affairs...)))

[Aag]

Quote: AAG

Quote: VPK-65

Quote: kit88

This is 4 Readiness, during official hours they are engaged in daily activities, during non-working hours they are at home.

I haven’t heard about “Readiness No. 4”, but I wrote about the rest in a comment here:
https://topwar.ru/237856-nad-chernym-morem-vblizi-rossijskoj-granicy-pojavljalis-tri-samoleta-vvs-velikobritanii.html#findcomment14249953
According to “Readiness No. 3,” we all slept together, and another airfield was on duty. We were on duty during the day, and they were on duty at night, so during the day we never had less than “Readiness No. 2”. If anything: military unit 15509, take-off nearby:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B059'20.7%22N+56%C2%B022'03.0%22E/@38.9890833,56.3675,733m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d38.9890833!4d56.3675?entry=ttu
PS and “Readiness No. 4”, as for me, is a troupe Have you ever destroyed your own airfield? And I had... we decided to somehow play tag with the ATS-59 tractor (like running in tanks for lack of them), and we hooked up the communication cable that went from the air defense control to the transmitting stations (communication with the pilots was lost). Do you remember the scene from the film “Retaliation” - “the coastal battery is destroyed”? Here it was almost the same thing, 4 of us idiots stood at the control point in front of the operational duty officer, and he called the district headquarters and reported: the airfield has been destroyed, there is no communication, I can’t control the planes. And we have a chill down our spines... The neighbors' airfield (Nebedag) was on duty for 3 hours, and we rolled out 10 liters of alcohol to the captain of the communications company and he connected the cable in 12-4 hours. Is it possible to call those days readiness No. XNUMX?

I admit, I haven’t followed your links yet...
Regarding text information, that’s a thing of the past...
I seriously doubt it has gotten better. (one thing that saves us is that this trend seems to be happening not only with us, but also with the adversary...
Thanks to all the pilots who responded, they clarified things a little... No complaints (of course, we need to look at the time, place of events...).
But, in the last two months of service before dismissal, I spent two nights at home. Yes, it was a little better before. (99th year. 29th rd Strategic Missile Forces). I'm not complaining. I'm telling you. I'm worried about the current state of affairs...)))

And, yes... I didn’t want to quarrel with anyone, I didn’t want to quarrel with anyone... Thanks to everyone for the live responses!
I can, of course, troll about who was on duty, how...)))
I won’t, that’s for sure!
To all brothers in arms, - Hello and best wishes!

[gmss]

MiG-31BM is a modern version of the MiG-31 for the Russian Air Force. It is planned to upgrade 2020 MiG-60s ​​to MiG-31BM by 31[28]. The first stage of the State Survey was completed in 2008, the second stage in 2012.B[29][30]. The upgraded aircraft will receive a new weapons control system and radar, which will allow them to detect targets at a range of up to 320 kilometers and simultaneously track up to ten air targets

What's the point of chasing a couple?
especially for the sake of two bombers?

[Aag]

Quote from gms

MiG-31BM is a modern version of the MiG-31 for the Russian Air Force. It is planned to upgrade 2020 MiG-60s ​​to MiG-31BM by 31[28]. The first stage of the State Survey was completed in 2008, the second stage in 2012.B[29][30]. The upgraded aircraft will receive a new weapons control system and radar, which will allow them to detect targets at a range of up to 320 kilometers and simultaneously track up to ten air targets

What's the point of chasing a couple?
especially for the sake of two bombers?

You probably shouldn’t “drive” at all. Just say - we see it for you!
Seriously, I asked the specialists to answer, within the permitted competencies...
It seems that many people are “boiled” over all sorts of different issues. But this does not mean that under...emotions (or something else) it’s worth blaming everything on the “live broadcast”...

[Aag]

Quote from gms

MiG-31BM is a modern version of the MiG-31 for the Russian Air Force. It is planned to upgrade 2020 MiG-60s ​​to MiG-31BM by 31[28]. The first stage of the State Survey was completed in 2008, the second stage in 2012.B[29][30]. The upgraded aircraft will receive a new weapons control system and radar, which will allow them to detect targets at a range of up to 320 kilometers and simultaneously track up to ten air targets

What's the point of chasing a couple?
especially for the sake of two bombers?

No, of course, on Zvezda I observed “reports” from various levels of officials that four MiG-31s ​​could block the sky “... from all kinds of threats along a front of 1000 km...”.
It seems that some of the residents of a number of regions of the Russian Federation will not agree with this... (((.
And it’s not the MiG-31’s fault, not its creators... (!!!). / for more than 30 years, the “galosh” people, they can’t even reproduce this! /).

[Ryaruav]

ours act similarly, just checking the reaction time of enemy air defense

[bambr731]

As noted, recently Western aircraft prefer to immediately move away when Russian fighters approach, since they do not rule out that Russian Aerospace Forces pilots may take actions that threaten the lives of NATO aircraft crews.

It’s wise to move aside once when Russian fighters approach, otherwise the Western defense industry will have to pay for psychotherapists for the rest of their lives.

[ved_med12]

We all must do our jobs perfectly!!!! And unite, there is no other way...

But the author couldn’t find a photo of the MIG and put a photo of the “TU” car.... Did he do his job conscientiously?

[Victor Leningradets]

But the author couldn’t find a photo of the MIG and put a photo of the “TU” car.... Did he do his job conscientiously?

And this is the notorious B-1B Lancer, not the Tu-160.

[ved_med12]

Sorry, I apologize. To both the author and all readers, I’m sorry....

[dauria]

I couldn’t find a photo of the MIG and put a photo of “TU”

This is an American B-1

[AC130 Gunship]

The most ordinary day of air defense work. In the USSR in the 80s and 90s there were at least several such escort missions per day.
NATO also accompanies the Russian Tu95 and 160. What the article is about is unclear

[AC130 Gunship]

Two pairs of interceptors are usually on duty. The first - with a standard of readiness for take-off of about 4 minutes, the second - about 40. After take-off, the 1st and 2nd ones begin to be urgently refueled. Why 1 plane went to intercept a GROUP target - we need to seriously understand

[Aag]

Quote: AC130 Ganship

Two pairs of interceptors are usually on duty. The first - with a standard of readiness for take-off of about 4 minutes, the second - about 40. After take-off, the 1st and 2nd ones begin to be urgently refueled. Why 1 plane went to intercept a GROUP target - we need to seriously understand

Not to complain to you, but I asked a similar question in the same thread more than an hour ago...

[Aag]

Quote: AC130 Ganship

Two pairs of interceptors are usually on duty. The first - with a standard of readiness for take-off of about 4 minutes, the second - about 40. After take-off, the 1st and 2nd ones begin to be urgently refueled. Why 1 plane went to intercept a GROUP target - we need to seriously understand

That's why I was wondering...

[Aag]

Quote: AC130 Ganship

Two pairs of interceptors are usually on duty. The first - with a standard of readiness for take-off of about 4 minutes, the second - about 40. After take-off, the 1st and 2nd ones begin to be urgently refueled. Why 1 plane went to intercept a GROUP target - we need to seriously understand

Thank you!
That's why I asked...
Since childhood, I was sure of what you wrote about... And here, -... this... I was, at least, puzzled... Are the 31st “ending”? (They are still minus... "). IMHO (not special), but with normal avionics, he is a serious fighter (as they described him on Zvezda...)...
No, that’s not why I’m rooting for it (MiG-31)! And, because it seems that no better is expected yet, given the modern filling, he is still a Fighter.
It’s a pity that he is considered only as a “thrower” of “Daggers”...
The device (with a capital letter) is capable of more!
We must reproduce it!
I repeat, I’m not an expert, but an outside, personal opinion...
More(!).
Statements that the Russian Federation is “not able to...”, “technology has been lost”...
Is this not the machinations of enemies?
How did it happen?! It’s clear - it’s more convenient for the enemies...
And I would be glad if I found out (I didn’t hear, I read!) that the newly produced MiG-31s ​​began to arrive in the VKS (let the specialists determine the modifications...).

[Dutchman Michel]

How can we make him disappear from the radar?

[Aken]

Today, the only option is to turn off the radar.

[Aken]

Intercepted. What's next? Hit or run?