Why was a A-7 doing with a f-4 during a soviet escort?

"Theecmo" wrote in message
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Don't forget we escorted them in the Prowler as well. We had a couple
extra
sets of hands to take pictures. :-)

"Wake UP back there (yelling over the ICS) and grab that camera" the Pilot
screamed so loud the ECMO awoke with a start.

Larry

No spam- I may have misunderstood - correct me if I'm wrong - but are you
saying the
escort aircraft would allow (or escort) the Soviet aircraft close to the
aircraft carrier so it could take pictures rather than escorting it away
from any ships? If so, why? BRBR

You weren't going to 'force' these A/C to do something they didn't want to do.
They routinely flew through the case 1 pattern, really gooning things up. This
was 'peace time', no shots across the bow or anything like that. They took pix
of us, we of them, really quite a game.
P. C. Chisholm
CDR, USN(ret.)
Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer

drag-nd Hey, Pechs and ECMO, remember NorPac '82, the "deceptive transit",
and
the surprise we gave the Russians who were paying more attention to the
Big E? I have pix of the Russian flying around us after that when they
followed the A-6's back to the boat. BRBR

You bet. I was airborne and intercepted a Badger and was told later that comms
from it was 'where did the F-4 come from, Enterprise has F-14s only", type
thing. We and Coral-maru did surprise them.

two old boats that made 'E' look silly.
P. C. Chisholm
CDR, USN(ret.)
Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer