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2009-12-26 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-12-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The A-50 is a Russian AEW aircraft.

It sounds like the Eurofighters were vectored to flyby the AEW aircraft, which may have drifted into Estonian airspace and the two Su-27s responded undetected by the Eurofighters to the "threat".

When the four fighter aircraft had drifted into Finn airspace, they were likely warned by the AEW and returned to Russian airspace.

Posted by badanov 2009-12-26 00:30|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2009-12-26 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Not good for the Eurofighters if they didn't know the Su-27s were there. Were they flying with AWACS back-up or were they depending on their own local radar?

Posted by Steve White 2009-12-26 00:51|| 2009-12-26 00:51|| Front Page Top

#3 To my knowledge, there are no AWACs tasked here in Estonia. There are radar installations operated by the country, and they share data with Finland over the Gulf of Finland.
The Russians do this from time to time. A few years ago, a fighter tried to fly in low into Lithuanian airspace, and the idiot pilot crashed his plane.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2009-12-26 07:42|| 2009-12-26 07:42|| Front Page Top

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