Pops (SJS) called and asked if we had put anything up on the Guam Bears yet — we said we were busy with his other weekend rock-painting exercise article, but he said to do something. So here’s some photos from the golden era (note the interceptor of choice) and a link back to his series about Bears and the North Atlantic. – SJA#3
Badgers, Buccaneers and Bears – A North Atlantic Tale from the ‘Good Ole Days’
Quite a bit has occurred in the intervening week+ since the last roll-up so let’s jump right in, beginning with the latest on the European leg of the BMDS: GREEK PAPER DISCUSSES PROPOSED EUROPE MISSILE DEFENSE UMBRELLA AGAINST IRAN, Ta Nea (Greece), BBC Monitoring International Reports, March 14, 2007. NATO wants to install in Greece…
UPDATE: Lots of comparisons to the F-22 based on the front end shots and planform, but I’m also thinking that Sukhoi took some cues from this bad boy: based on a comparison from the tailfeather POV: for comparison, here is an in-flight of the YF-22 and YF-23: Things that make you go hmmm…. In this…
In an area of the world where memories of Chernobyl are not a dim/receding thing of the past, it doesn’t take much to invoke immediate concern, if not panic: ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) — A fire broke out Monday at a Russian factory that makes equipment for atomic power plants, but there was no risk of…
News and notes from the other side of the Iron Red Velvet Curtain this week. Navy Plans To Move To St. Petersburg (MOSCOW TIMES 01 NOV 07) Alexander Belenky The Defense Ministry is planning to move the Navy headquarters to St. Petersburg in the latest instance of a federal institution being shifted to the former…
One of the threads arising out of the F-22 “Raptor-ski” post was the practice of using foreign designs to advance indigenous efforts. All nations, at one time or another, have used this process. The US manned space program though Apollo, for example, is but an outgrowth of Werner von Braun’s concepts and designs which in…
On 13 April 2010, the Presidents of the United States and Russia signed the collection of agreements and protocols which aggregated have been popularly called “New START,” following on the heels of the first START treaty, signed by President Bush and Secretary Gorbachev in July 1991, and the Moscow, signed by Presidents George W. Bush…
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Steeljaw crew,
F-14’s and F-4’s were the only jets to intercept Tu-95 Bears.
Some family friends remember seeing the aluminum overcast fly overhead as some intercept controller in an E-2 sent an A-6 into find them and escort them away. Here is a link to a shot of a VA-95 Green Lizard KA-6D escorting a TU-95 away from the Big E in the mid-80’s http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/Assets/Still/1984/Navy/DN-SN-84-03469.JPG.
My father remembers the Bear box fondly while doing the WestPac in the late 60’s and thru to the early 80’s. Too many times of having hearing the voice of god say “Now lauch the Alert 5 Fighter” and then 3 minutes later hear “Now launch the Alert 15 Tanker.” and having to run around to get a KA-6D ready to top off the F-4’s that went up to escort the snooper.