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>Their planes commit an incursion, waited for a response, and then exited once they detected the response. That's pretty much the status quo during the cold wa
by duxup 1y ago
>Their planes commit an incursion, waited for a response, and then exited once they detected the response.
That's pretty much the status quo during the cold war anyway, speed or not. You measure response times, where it came from, and so on.
- jacquesm 1y agoIt should have come at Mach 9 from below. Good chance that next time it will.
- ben_w 1y agoAnti-missile and anti-drone lasers are starting to appear, which may make the response somewhat faster than Mach 9. (IIRC the laws against weaponised lasers are only for intentional blindness, not incidental while e.g. cutting a fuel line).
- cjbenedikt 1y agoThat is such an old "standard" procedure. We ( West) used to fly Phantoms into East Germany to see how long it took them to respond - then switched on the afterburner and disappeared. The Russians have done that in Norway and Finland for ever. Old news.
- jacquesm 1y agoWith the small caveat that there wasn't a hot war with the party doing the peaking in progress one country over. This is literally begging for an escalation and that's most likely the only reason they haven't got one yet, not for lack of ability. The amount of hardware on NATO's Eastern flank is pretty impressive, especially in NE Poland and the Baltics and Finland near the russian border. Those pilots must have been wondering if the lack of response was good or bad news.