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Canadian jets repel Russian bombers

by sunnysideup Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:55 pm

Looks like the Russians are testing us - not another cold war coming up I hope.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/07/30/14874181.html

Canadian jets repel Russian bombers

A CF-18 Hornet does a fly-by. (Dave Abel, QMI Agency file photo)

Russia denies trying to enter Canadian airspace

OTTAWA - Canadian fighter jets scrambled to repel Russian bombers that made several attempts to probe Canadian airspace on Wednesday.

QMI Agency has learned that two CF-18s took off from CFB Bagotville to intercept two TU-95 long range bombers about 463 km east of Goose Bay, N.L.

Attempts by Russia to test Canadian airspace have been going on since 2007; military and intelligence analysts tell QMI Agency the frequency has been increasing since then, but one senior official described Wednesday's event as "not the usual s--t."

"The response as always was a rapid, effective deterrent," Defence Minister Peter MacKay told QMI Agency.

"They were in the buffer zone," said MacKay, stressing that although the planes did not enter Canada's sovereign airspace, the bombers did come inside the 300 nautical mile zone that Canada claims.

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