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Originally Posted by Silent Hunter
OoE is right. Gary Powers was over the USSR when his aircraft was spammed out of the sky by "Guidelines" (I've just got a Osprey book on the SA-2 series and I'm surprised at how many missiles they used per successful downing).
The Tu-95s have entered NATO's Air Defence Identification Zone. That's not illegal at all, provided they're non-hostile.
If they were to enter actual UK airspace, then things would be interesting.
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I remember it well, it was a Lockheed U2, what I could never understand was why it had to take off from Peshawar, Pakistan
, any idea why??