Soviet Air Defense organization
also: Soviet air defense zone, Soviet air defense radar, Soviet defense stations
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they would have been alarmed to know that they were well within the Soviet air defense zone. And the Russians took the presence of intruders seriously. Only five years before, another jetliner belonging to the same company, Korean Airlines,…
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For like the fated 707, they too were being tracked by Soviet air defense radar and was soon joined by Russian interceptors. The Soviet radar operators had already spent the night tracking the American and American Air Force Boeing KC-135C,…
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For no matter how hard the frustrated controllers tried, they could not seem to vector their flight to a point of visual contact with the intruder. In the end, after searching until they were too low on fuel to continue, the MiG flight retu…
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the Soviet peninsula, the 500-mile expanse of the Sea of Oktaks, north of the Karel Islands, and was approaching Sakhalin Island, just north of Japan, and had managed to do so completely unmolested, which infuriated the Soviet commanders. T…
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Over a period of a very long time, repeatedly, KC-135s, well, RC-135s, excuse me, not KC. KC-135s are the tankers. RC-135s are the reconnaissance guys. They're the spy ones. They have all kinds of electronic equipment on them. And what they…
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of TWA 800, which crashed into the Atlantic near New York on 17 July 1996. The fuel from this incident burned for hours, marking the location of the main wreckage site. Within two hours of the shootdown, Soviet defense stations in Sakhalin …