Sputnik: Top Gunsky: Watch Russian MiG-31 Approach Within Few Hundred Meters of NATO Jet
Aerial encounters involving Russian and NATO warplanes saw a significant uptick in the wake of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis, as the Western alliance concentrated more and more forces near Russia’s western borders and ramped up reconnaissance and bombing run practice off the country’s Baltic and Black Sea coasts.
A YouTube user describing himself as a former Russian Air Force fighter pilot has uploaded a video showing a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet accompanying a Tu-95MS strategic bomber facing off with a NATO F-16.
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Update: Video from inside a Russian fighter jet shows a 'friendly' encounter with an F-16 (Business Insider)
WNU Editor: This was happening all the time during the Cold War. And while the rate of "intercepts" is not as high as it was 30-40-50 years ago, you have to wonder if anything has really changed since the fall of the Soviet Union.
