Russian
Tu-95 bombers fly during a joint Kazakh-Russian military exercise at
Otar military range, some 150km (93 miles) west of Almaty, October 3,
2008.
On Feb. 18, two Russian Air Force Tu-95MS Bear bombers on a long-range patrol flew close to the UK airspace off Cornwall.
Although the 60-year old 4-engine powered turboprop planes remained in international airspace, they were shadowed by two RAF Typhoons in QRA (Quick Reaction Alert): something that is becoming a sort of routine considered the frequency of such Russian missions over northern Europe.
Noteworthy, as the Bear H aircraft flew close to UK, Tom Hill, a
radio enthusiast and reader of The Aviationist, using an HF receiver,
recorded the following 6-minute audio.
It’s a coded message believed to be a message passed by the Tu-95 to a
female controller on the Russian Air Force Strategic HF Voice net.
Interestingly, according to one of our sources, for the first time in
several months, the entire Bear mission on Feb. 18 was supported by a
Russian airborne command and control aircraft: the Ilyushin Il-80 (NATO
reporting name “Maxdome”).
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