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COLD WAR 2.0

All the most significant close encounters between NATO and Russian warplanes since 2013

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Introduction

In the last couple of years we have observed and reported about the increasing number of Russian flights across the world. Suspended in 1992, Russian Air Force bombers long-range missions resumed after President Vladimir Putin, in 2007, announced that Russia would resume strategic-scale flights. On Aug. 17, 2007 RAF Typhoon Block 5 jets belonging to the XI Sqn at Coningsby, launched their first scramble since assuming Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) duties on Jun. 29, 2007, to intercept a Russian Bear bomber flying over the North Atlantic Ocean. Since then, the frequency of close encounters between NATO and Russian aircraft has increased, with a "spike" recorded in northern Europe in the months that followed Russia's annexation of Crimea and the subsequent crisis with NATO over Ukraine. Through a collection of posts published by The Aviationist between 2013 and 2015, you can read how routine interceptions have become recurrent, tenser and more dangerous; the proof that we live in a new Cold War, or a "Cold War 2.0", as we dubbed it.

David Cenciotti Founder & Editor

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CHAPTER 1 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 3

B

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N

-

R

T

U

S REPORTEDLY SKIRT

MILITARY BASE AT

G

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R

T

U

B

ACKFIRE BOMBERS ESCORTED BY

S

U

F

LANKERS SIMULATE NIGHT ATTACK ON

S

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R

USSIAN INTELLIGENCE GATHERING PLANE FLIES NEAR

S

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S

A

F

ORCE ALLEGEDLY FAILS TO INTERCEPT IT

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F

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S AIRSPACE VIOLATED BY

R

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NCREDIBLE PHOTO SHOWS

T

U

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S

U

AND OTHER FIGHTER PLANES INTERCEPTED OVER THE

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C

LOSE ENCOUNTER WITH

AS SEEN FROM INSIDE THE

R

USSIAN SPYPLANE

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E

R

USSIAN COMBAT PLANES SKIRTED

E

STONIAN AIRSPACE ON THEIR WAY TO HUGE

Z

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J

APAN INTERCEPTORS SCRAMBLED

C

R

USSIAN AIRCRAFT IN LAST

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USSIAN BOMBERS PRACTICED BOMB RUNS ON

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S

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F

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E

STONIA INDEPENDENCE FLYBY DIVERTED TO INTERCEPT

R

USSIAN SPYPLANE

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R

S

U

F

ENCER ATTACK PLANE PERFORMS MULTIPLE PASSES NEAR

B

S

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CHAPTER 2 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 24

R

USSIAN BOMBERS FLY OFF

C

ALIFORNIA AND AROUND

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G

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B

F

M

C

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S INTERCEPT THEM

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WESOME PHOTO OF

B

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YPHOON INTERCEPTING FULLY ARMED

R

S

U

B

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SPYPLANE VIOLATED

S

WEDISH AIRSPACE TO ESCAPE INTERCEPTION BY

R

" .................................................................... 29

R

"

STRATEGIC BOMBERS INTERCEPTED BY

T

YPHOON JET FROM BASE IN

S

COTLAND FOR THE FIRST TIME

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T

R

USSIAN ATTACK PLANES INTENTIONALLY VIOLATED THE

S

WEDISH AIRSPACE TO PROBE LOCAL AIR DEFENSE

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G

T

YPHOONS HAVE INTERCEPTED

7

R

A

F

ORCE COMBAT PLANES OVER THE

B

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UNUSUAL LEVEL OF

R

USSIAN AIR ACTIVITY OVER

E

UROPEAN AIRSPACE

WARPLANES INTERCEPTED TODAY

S

R

A

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ORCE ACTIVITY IN

E

UROPE MAY BE A REACTION TO LARGE

S

C

OMMAND BOMBERS EXERCISE

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H

ERE ARE THE PHOTOS OF THE

R

T

U

B

EAR BOMBERS INTERCEPTED BY

T

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E

P

A

F

ORCE HAS INTERCEPTED AND PHOTOGRAPHED

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USSIAN BOMBERS WANDERING ACROSS

E

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CHAPTER 3 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 43

R

USSIAN SPYPLANE VIOLATES

L

ITHUANIA AIRSPACE

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C

H

ORNETS INTERCEPT IT

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N

S TOOK SOME STUNNING PICTURES OF

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S

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FIGHTER BOMBERS FLYING OFF

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R

USSIAN BOMBERS TO FLY OVER THE

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M

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HIS IS WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR IN

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F

A

F

H

ORNET JETS HAVE TAKEN SOME COOL SNAPSHOTS OF

R

USSIAN BOMBERS SKIRTING

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R

USSIAN SPYPLANE NEARLY COLLIDED WITH

A

S

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N

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LANES INTERCEPTED BY

N

F

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R

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BOMBERS ESCORTED BY

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INTERCEPTORS SKIRT

GET INTERCEPTED MULTIPLE TIMES

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I

T

YPHOON JETS HAVE INTERCEPTED A

R

A

F

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TANKER OVER THE

B

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R

T

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AIR DEFENSES FLYING AT SUPERSONIC SPEED OVER THE

B

S

EA FOR THE FIRST TIME

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H

ERE ARE SOME COOL IMAGES OF

R

S

U

ATTACK PLANES INTERCEPTED BY

S

T

YPHOONS OVER THE

B

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R

USSIAN BOMBERS INTRUDE INTO THE

AIR DEFENSE ZONE

,

NO INTERCEPTOR SCRAMBLED AFTER THEM

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