by "ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
Published 12/05/2017 at 10:47
by "ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
Published 12/05/2017 at 10:47
Tags: planelopnik
STARS: 9
Absolutely no information to go along with this photo, and it’s not even possible to determine the nationality of the F-4. But that’s definitely a Tu-95, so one can assume that this was part of an intercept/escort mission.
Via Global Military Strategy & Statistics Facebook
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
12/05/2017 at 11:39, STARS: 1
Seems like safe intercept procedures to me.
"Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)" (galileo-humpkins)
12/05/2017 at 11:39, STARS: 0
I saw this on a news site yesterday and from what I can recall it was from the Cold War era and it’s a Soviet Tu-95 being intercepted by (I think) a Turkish F-4.
Edit: I remembered that way wrong,
Link
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
12/05/2017 at 11:43, STARS: 0
Definitely a Tu-95, but I think it’s impossible to rule out a US Phantom, even though we bitch and moan about Russian and Chinese interception techniques.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
12/05/2017 at 11:44, STARS: 1
It works for the Chinese.
"user314" (user314)
12/05/2017 at 11:48, STARS: 0
According to someone on The Aviationist who claims he took the photos, it’s a USAF F-4C from the 57th FIS, Keflavik NAS, Iceland. Can’t confirm he’s legit though.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
12/05/2017 at 11:48, STARS: 1
For sure - and probably the Russians, too.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
12/05/2017 at 11:53, STARS: 1
That’s where I originally found the photo, but I didn’t dig into the comments. I looked at the commenter’s avatar, and it’s a pic of a guy in a flight suit standing in front of an F-80/T-33. So he could be legit, though he only joined Disqus today to make that comment. Then again, that means that he’s not a professional troll.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
12/05/2017 at 11:55, STARS: 1
Bob Sihler also has a Facebook page . So it looks like he’s legit. Now, whether or not he’s blowing smoke about this is anybody’s guess. I’m not on FB so I can’t look at his site.
"user314" (user314)
12/05/2017 at 12:28, STARS: 3
Hmm. Crop, invert, rotate, and enhance!
Pulling up a photo from Wiki of a 57th FIS F-4 from ‘73:
Analysis inconclusive.
I need one of those computers the NCIS/CSI people use on CBS, they can pull details from anything ...
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
12/05/2017 at 12:38, STARS: 0
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
12/05/2017 at 12:39, STARS: 1
You’d think that the checker tail would show up even in the blurry photo, but the camo is correct. That’s some fine detective work, Lou.
"Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!" (eurylokhos)
12/05/2017 at 13:48, STARS: 1
I don’t know about this specific pic, but intercepting Bears was a daily occurrence for the 57th FIS out of Keflavik (they were called the Black Knights). My father flew F4s in that squadron in the late 70s/ early 80s and his house is loaded with pictures from those days. I don’t know when they switched paint, but at that point the F4s were all grey with a knight helmet on the tail.
[img] https://goo.gl/images/gGYs3o [/img]
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
12/05/2017 at 14:00, STARS: 1
But still the checkerboard tail flash. Skyfire77 did some good detective work on this pic. It looks like the F-4 still has Euro/Vietnam camouflage on it, but it’s just too hard to be certain. I’d love to see some of those photos. I actually yearn for a time when we actually knew who our enemy was, and there were actual rules of engagement that pilots still followed.
"user314" (user314)
12/05/2017 at 14:53, STARS: 2
Going by the Wiki, the squadron repainted in gray in ‘78.
In early 1978 preparations for the exchange of the F-4C for F-4Es were underway with the first two aircraft landing on 21 March. These aircraft were better equipped than the C models, with solid state radios and tactical navigation equipment, lead computing optical gunsight and ILS. Twelve aircraft arrived between April and July, and the last F-4Cs left on 14 June. On 1 August, one of the squadron’s F-4Es [12] was taking off for a training mission to practice interceptions for the William Tell interceptor weapons meet as the number two ship in a formation. After a very long takeoff roll followed by difficulty in controlling pitch, the crew found the plane’s outer wing panels were in the folded position. After the crew safely landed, [note 1] it was discovered that the wing fold locking lugs were retracted and as the Phantom’s nose was lifted on takeoff, the outer wing panels had “gently lifted to their folded position and stayed there. ” The wing panels had apparently been unlocked when the plane was repainted from Tactical Air Command camouflage to ADC gray and had not been locked when the job was through, [13]
Which is scary as shit.
"rockingthe2" (unpredictable-swerve)
12/05/2017 at 19:03, STARS: 1
Could also be a TU-142
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
12/05/2017 at 20:23, STARS: 0
True.