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Close Encounter Between NATO F-16 And Russian MiG-31 Caught On Tape
Once upon a time, the only place where a western fighter jet could come within meters of a Russian MiG was on Top Gun.
However, according to a video released earlier today by the Norwegian Armed Forces, that is no longer the case.
In the clip, a Russian MiG-31 "suddenly cut in front of one of two Norwegian aircraft sent up by NATO to intercept Russian aircraft in international airspace north off Norway. “What the hell,” says the Norwegian F-16 pilot in the video, as he dodges the MiG-31 passing him at a distance estimated to be closer than 20 meters (65 feet)."
According to the WSJ, the release of the video on Sunday follows a series of publications by Norwegian defense authorities regarding encounters with Russian aircraft this year, and it marks another sign of escalating concern among North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies over Moscow’s increased military activity.
The Norwegians are angry:
Norwegian Armed Forces spokesman Brynjar Stordal declined to say when the incident occurred, but said close calls such as this are rare. “We could have had a collision between the aircraft,” he said. “The pilot has a spontaneous reaction in the video, and both his comment and the evasive maneuver indicate that this is unwanted … We don’t know if this was a mistake by the Russian pilot, or a sign of a more aggressive behavior by the Russians.”
Or perhaps it was just aggressive behavior by Norway? After all, the Norwegiansdecided to intercept the Russian aircraft in international airspace on behalf of NATO.
It is now a provocation to fly in "international airspace"? Actually, it isn't. "“I don’t think there’s a special need for worry, but we are of course monitoring the activity,” Minister of Defense Ine Eriksen Søreide said in an emailed statement. Ms. Søreide said it was legitimate for the Russian military to exercise, also in international airspace, but that “Russia, like everyone else, must abide with international aviation laws and regulations. It is unacceptable that Russian planes create dangerous situations in European airspace….”
Wait a minute, according to that clip, it was the Norwegian behind the Russian not the other way around. And last we checked with any insurance company, it would have been the Norwegian's fault if a "dangerous situation" was created. Sadly, it increasingly appears that NATO's only motivation these days is to create as many "dangerous situations" involving Russia, as possible, with hope that one of them finally escalates into more than just jawboning. After all, one can't stimulate plunging "Keynesian" GDP with mere harsh words or John Kerry-esque "diplomacy."
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Manueuvers in Intl airspace,,, Who was intercepting who?
Hey you gutless fly boys and girls in NATO. Your not dealing with a helpless country this time,,, You know, where you drop democracy bombs and back home for lunch.
Those Ruskies may not appreciate the North Atlantic Terrorist Orginazation interrupting their war games.
What's new, more provocative actions from Putin. He is playing a dangerous game, one that could get out of hand quickly.
Dont breed.
We gonna send Trayvon and Michael Brown to stop him. Keep watching TV, Hollywood andvoting for Dems as America becomes more feral by the second.
It was just the Russian jockeying for the SHB
http://fightersweep.com/837/the-ultimate-carrier-break/
http://fightersweep.com/946/fatal-f-16-crash-middle-east/
Was this an F-16 shot down by the Syrians because they do not want the USA in their airspace?
The cover story by the USAF is fishy at best.
What is scarey is the timing of this, since Obama (and supposedly Turkey) are talking about a "no-fly" zone in Syria.
Hmmm... perhaps the Syrians and their friends have a "no-fly" zone of their own...
Can't find any actors actually born in Norway to play Maverick - plenty of Swedes though - might have to get Kristanna Loken to Terminate the Red Menace...
Norway huh, an oil producer who charges their citizens a 50% higher price than UK for gas at pump (taxes ); 3 times more than Russia.
Hope those flying lessons are paid for by NATO (USSA) and not the sheep of Norway.
This is only one of examples that shows Putin regime is agressor that is asking for a spanking - he will get it.
Yeah, that's like saying that a pack of pugs will give a spanking to a bear... Ludicrous
I always think how tough American Pit Bull owner think his doggie is...
till meet Siber Alabai, Caucasian Shepherd, etc.
Your namesake it would seem...
Yes.
Siber Alabai is best. Better sweet disposition than the Caucasian Mountain.
At same time, better defense/fighter by weigh. Seen them kick other more bigger and fierce look dogs.
Like Siberian Lady also more sensible than euro, pole, ukr, caucaus, georgian etc.
Siberian Ladies make best wives/helpmate
better fighter also, if need
I once got jumped by a Rottweiler. I walked around the corner and he started barking like he was going to come at me. I yelled at him and held my ground. If it had been a Cacasian Mountain dog then I would have fainted. They are scary as hell and the Siber looks like a killer.
On the contrary dear Latvian troll, the Norwegians were the aggressors.
Russian MIG was flying in "International Airspace" or did you miss that??
Check out what that means.
tch tch
"Keep on Trolling".
New Years resolutions for Viedoklis:
1. Get new name. Something that flows better.
2. Cut back to 2 bottles of vodka before lunchtime.
3. Stop trolling ZH
He's marked for death, like Moamar and Saddam. He has very little to lose.
i'll bet you're big on spankings. lol
tough guy viedokis is back! lol did you bring your gun today? you fucking pussy
A spanking like Napoelon and Hitler ?
Winter in Russia is terrible.
To calm down, have a few Polish applies, our Latvian friend.
Did anyone spank Ronald Reagan for this:
Commander-in-Chief Reagan would not let the pilots answer the Russian fighters. To be forced down in Russia and have the cameras in the Korean plane discovered. So Reagan sent 269 people to their deaths.
Reagan was a bigger nigger than Obama.
You should see what the West and its allies do to Commercial airliners if you think this is bad.
I was thinking of another interception in international airspace (but this story was quickly put to sleep): July2, 2013, the plane carrying President Evo Morales of Bolivia was not just intercepted but forced to land, on the unfounded suspicion that a certain Enemy of the State might be on board.
Your assumptions about aggressive behavior and analogies to cars and insurance companies are off the mark and do not apply here. To fly an attack aircraft along another countries airspace boundaries is aggressive behavoir. To give that aircraft an escort is normal practice. To behave in the way the Russian fighter behaved is aggressive, reckless or incompetent.
Fuck off ! It's called "international airspace". The Americans are doing it on a daily basis...
Right. And when the Americans do it they are often met by escorting aircraft. It is customary that both parties then act carefully and not recklessly. That is why this is exceptional.
You mean like reclesly flying an electronic surveillance plane so close to Chinese airspace to actually ram a Chinese jet? That aggressive? Or, like, outright bombing UN member countries on false pretenses and without Security Counsel approval? That agresive?
I'm a pilot. From the video, I can't figure out how one concludes that the Russian fighter dropped in front of the Norweigen.
shto? WSJ? haha so automatic Russia's fault
This is state of Norwegian Air Force?
Not know another aircraft in vicinity in real?
Be sure Rus Mig wide awake
Maybe compare with USS Cook
New Norwegian Airforce motto:
To get me up in the air, you have to force me...
The Troublesome fact on the video is that the Norwegian pilot was surprised !
The Mig came 20m close and the guy just realized it when the MiG was clearly on top of him!
The MiG pilot even Joked the F16 by placing himself just in Front of the nose of the F16 ! Amazing ... same scenario has the many flyby's of another MiG that disabled all eletronics of a US NAvy ship !
Precisely. The military-industrial complex has been selling inept malfunctioning products to the miltary for decades. All the good stuff is reserved for our "allies" the israelis.
Decades? Easily going back to The Civil War. A war created by European banksters (aka dual citizen types) to profit from internal genocide.
My guess is shitty weaponry was even paned off during The Revolutionary War.
The secrets in the "good stuff" is then resold to the Chinese and Russians.
Kentucky Long Rifle (German and Swiss Immigrant designer)http://www.tngenweb.org/campbell/hist-bogan/KentuckyLongRifle.html
this very informativie tells that Washington knew excellent from shitty:
http://www.tngenweb.org/campbell/hist-bogan/KentuckyLongRifle.html
"Kalash" (Altai Krai Siberian designer)
still in ongoing developments l(look 6.5 versions)
"Russians don't make anything"
sr72 mach 8+ ..
substract 5, and drop the dope...
It was an SR71 and could do mach 4...
No, it couldn't, and there was (still is) a reason for that...
Underwhelming video. Maybe the idiot light on the dash was burned out about an approaching aircraft. Yeah that's it!
Zio agit-prop is getting weaker by the day, they must be leaving in droves to grab the big shekels in tech/media land
If patroling fighters in international airspace is not a provocationin the North Atlantic, then is it still not a provocation in the baltic sea? Off the coast of Konigsberg? In the bering sea off Kamchatka?
I am curious because last week's ZH articles - not ancient history, only DAYS, were saying that Nato fighters in Poland - hundreds of miles from Russia - were a provocation, and that a small exercise that Russia was originally going to attend, and had full knowledge of, that occured five hundred miles from Russia was a provocation.
I don't give a crap what the standard is as long as it applies to everyone.
If on the other hand this is about one side or the other saying 'I own you! You will do as I say!', then I say this, "Fuck you both. LIfe isn't precious enough to have on those terms".
Can't we just have a return of the plague, or something, to kill off all these assholes on both sides?
both sides did not start this...
just the exceptional one.
Scandinavians need to be under a more intelligent and oriented peoples control, otherwise they just become bitches for the US/Israel axis and flood their countires with Somalis and Arabs - Russia would be good for them and their culture.
Da, I think all the good Viking genetics stayed in Russia
the brave ones did not sit at home
Norwegies have softness now
He was simply merging onto the highway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwpn14IE7E
Fucking Russians - Apparently they fly just like they drive.
Maybe it's because the MiG pilot had one of those ominous blacked-out helmets, like in Top Gun, and couldn't actually see.
Who needs eyes when you have "The Force."
Looks like butthurt feelings to me, big deal.
Let the dumbasses in the US, EU and NATO have the effin Ukraine - lock, stock, and barrell. Then what? Are they going to launch an invasion from there?
TO ThisIsBob
"Are the US, EU and NATO going to launch an invasion of Russia from Ukraine?"
Yes, this is the general plan.
The US GGOV Procurement office had opened offers for bids for the construction of the NAVY bases in Crimea and the military bases near Kiev, Ukraine in 2012-2013. The gov canceled the offers only in the beginning of 2014. If NATO gets the nuclear capable military facilities near Kiev, it will be able to bomb Moscow in about 20 minutes time.
Needless to say that Ukraine would become a ground zero for a nuclear war in this case, but the majority of Ukrainians are incapable of thinking logically.
Links?
http://russia-insider.com/en/2014/11/07/04-27-51pm/i_guess_contract_wont...
Russia has been providing fighter escorts for all commercial airliners over Europe ever since NATO shot down that airliner over the summer.
Maybe we can find the MIG pilot's family and lock them up in Lebanon?
don't forget, my fellow americans, our military is the result of politics with only a nod to tactical need and strategy. the russian and chinese military is all military purpose. they actually have a working f-35.
That Chinese contraption is nothing like an F-35.
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So you're saying the Chinese one actually flies?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspace
Your free to intersept in International airspace. Everyone does.
"russian's increased military activity"
That looks like a F16 HUD. I can't play the video though.
must be something in the scandinavian diet.
the swedes are seeing things that don't exist (eg RU subs) and the norwegians are not seeing things that exist.
can't decide which one i'd like to have in my corner.
amazing.
.
Probably tainted lutefisk from the Latvian S.S.R.
We have backed Russia into a corner. People fight when they are cornered. Why should this surprise anyone?
Whomever downvoted you is a CIA troll or a fucking idiot...
To Russian Ambassador in Hunt for Red October---
"It would be well for your government to consider that having your ships and ours, your aircraft and ours, in such proximity... is inherently DANGEROUS. Wars have begun that way, Mr. Ambassador."
NATO would be wise to take this same advise.
In reetrospect, Tom Clancy was probably a See Eye Aye douchebag writer creating war porn thrillers for the masses. I did like Richard Jordan who played the American ambassador. The poor guy died of a brain tumor not that long after the movie.
Wow that was cool!
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
i miss eating steak. remember eating steak? medium rare rib eye. medium rare new york strip. so tender and juicy you don't even need steak sauce with it.
i don't want obamacare. i want steak.
we should protest and riot like in fergusen, except for steak.
someone call obama and tell them the american people want their steak back.
If you like your steak you can keep your steak
Quis interceptiet ipsos inteceptorius, Norwegian Dudfeface?
Russian fighter have teleportation machine on their board, can instant teleport at 20 meters while flying at mach 2.
“The pilot has a spontaneous reaction in the video, and both his comment and the evasive maneuver indicate that this is unwanted …
Seeing that pilot got so surprised by this bypass, does that meen that norwegians can't see russian jets on their onboard radar screens. Or what?
Well anyway Norway is supposed to be replacing its 74 F16s in 2015 with the latest white elephant from the US, so it would be worth writing off a few
The F-35 piece of shit or the F-22 lesser piece of shit? The F-16 is better than both of those planes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27qdB1D0s9M
The Rand Corp (nuke war AH think tank) said the F-35 is crap as has Pierre Sprey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDSiwqM2nw
Question:
Why does the startled Norwegian F-16 pilot curse in English language and not Norwegian?
Sad to see this kind of propaganda on a financial website.......Russia is not an enemy of the West folks snap out of your zombiness
http://newworldorderg20.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/russia-delivers-last-of-u-s-bought-helicopters-to-afghan-military/
http://newworldorderg20.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/jpmorgans-deal-with-gazprom-cements-thier-relationship-of-course/
http://newworldorderg20.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/u-s-using-russian-rocket-engines-to-launch-spy-satelites/
http://newworldorderg20.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/global-ties-of-renewables-highlighted-at-hydrovision-russia-2015/
http://newworldorderg20.wordpress.com/2014/11/22/russian-billionaires-buying-u-s-steel-companies-just-6-years-ago-for-those-that-forgot/
http://newworldorderg20.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/russian-bank-hires-two-former-u-s-senators/
http://newworldorderg20.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/u-s-russia-cooperation-in-science-top-priority-of-course-are-you-crazy/
much more.....http://newworldorderg20.wordpress.com
Videos involving military incidents never make it to the public view, unless the military themselves are running a PR campaign.
The purpose of publishing this video is to plant the seed of war.
iPhones, Samsung, LG, HTC, and every new qualcomm device uses Glonass, too.
Sorry, but there was no "cut in front of" behavior.
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It is possible the guy in the F16 was dozing off, or just not paying much attention to what is near him, in which case it can be startling when you all of a sudden notice another aircraft relatively nearby.
This other airplane briefly visible is on an approximately parallel flight path, and there was never any danger. It could be the F16 purposely feigned this whole situation and his reaction for PR purposes. But we can't know that for certain either.
One thing is for sure, if the F16 pilot was surprised as he indicated, he demonstrated absolutely horrific situational awareness. Also known as "asleep at the wheel".