"Poseidon": Americans Scramble Jet From UK Base Into Eastern Poland in Clear Provocation Move
Headed to the Baltic states. This is about the American plane Poseidon, which took off today from one of the bases in the UK. The Pentagon didn’t specify its combat tasks. As in the case of the reconnaissance Boeing RC-135. It was reportedly sent to the airspace of Eastern Poland at about the same time.
And it happened just several hours after the US complaints about "unsafe actions by Russian aviation." This is about the Su-27 of the VKS which intercepted the US Orion, also, notably, a scout aircraft, over the Black Sea. According to the US military officials, it came a meter and a half close. They call it a glaring violation of international law and say that lives of the plane crew were in danger. However, they didn't specify what this plane was doing near the Russian shores.
One more interesting detail. American partners insist that the US Orion had to fly through the afterburner flow of the Russian fighter. To put it mildly, this doesn't sound true.
Yevgeny Tishkovets will tell why.
- Yevgeny, hello!
- Good evening!
- If it'd been true, would it have burnt?
- Alexei, the US reconnaissance plane wouldn't have burnt, but it most likely wouldn't have been able to continue its flight. But I'll tell about it later.
If military pilots start counting the distance between their plains, it's already strange. The thing is, only the international civil aviation rules use the term "safe distance". If it's about side separation, it's half a kilometers. The Air Forces of different countries have their own distance norms, which are aimed mainly at fulfilling a military task. Russian pilots, and Soviet pilots before them, worked and work at a small distance. When performing group flights, they use open and close formations, when the distance between fighters or destroyers doesn't exceed two wingspans or two plane lengths. So, the distance between the wings shouldn't exceed 15 meters, and the distance between the tail of one plane to the nose of the other shouldn't exceed 20 meters.
Let's go back to the incident. All this story about the US plane flying through the afterburner flow of the Russian fighter and the distance of 1,5 meters doesn't look plausible. Hot waste gases coming from the Su-27 turbines, and they get as hot as 765 degrees Celsius, shouldn't confuse anyone. The thing is, as they separate from the plane, their temperature drops rapidly. 3-4 meters away from the pipe, it's already 2-3 times lower. Such heating is normal. The thing is that planes heat up as much as up to 230-330 centigrades Celsius because of friction with the air. If what Americans say is true, and the distance between the planes didn't exceed 1,5 meters, the US reconnaissance plane, most likely, would have fallen.
The thing is that any air turbine emits carbon dioxide. If it gets into the engine, it stops immediately. And we shouldn't forget about all the turbulence. Acceleration in the aircraft trail can reach 9G, and it already exceeds human capabilities.
There are dozens confirmed cases when a plane got into the afterburner flow, and it led to tragedies. The most famous one took place the next day after the 9/11 tragedy, but it stayed in its shade. Airbus A-300 crossed the afterburner flow of another aircraft and lost control, after which it fell onto a New York suburb. 265 people died, 260 in the plane and 5 on the ground.
As experts think, the distance between the planes most likely exceeded 1,5 meters, And the distance of 10-15 meters isn't dangerous.
Victor Zabolotsky, test pilot: "There's nothing dangerous, as they had turboprop engines, this can't affect their work. There might be some turbulence after passing through the flow. But this can't affect the plane functions and its crew. It can scare them, there can be turbulence, but they're military people, so, they must know what they're doing".
In the end, for there to be no claims when flying close to the borders of others, it's better to stay close to your own.
- Yevgeny Tishkovets told about the US provocations.