"John - Tamer" Orion "
Military pilot Vasily Tsymbal different shebutnoy daring and even reckless. In Kilpi Yavr that near Murmansk, he was transferred to the Far East for what blew the helicopter from the deck of "friendly" aircraft carrier.
The task regiment, where he arrived Vasily, was to prevent violations of the state border of the USSR in the Barents Sea area. And just here, NATO forces conducted active surveillance for our submarines. That their planes, the helicopters approaching the border. Our pilots had seven or eight times a day to take off the alarm. And they stood up for duty in a day. So I decided to use Tsymbal "hazing" method instead of loitering near the "probable friends."
Flying over the aircraft carrier he was "pissed" on the deck of the accidental discharge of fuel. The method proved to be effective - a pinwheel at the maritime border began poking much less. But intelligence "Orion" Norwegian Air Force is still haunted.
In a quiet clear Sunday morning, September 13, 1987 operations duty officer of the North Sea air defense corps were ordered to lift into the air one of the Su-27.
Violators of "rest" was a basic patrol aircraft P-3C "Orion" Norwegian Air Force. He "dodged" along the border over neutral waters, and seems to have led a movement exploration ships of the Northern Fleet and control the release of the bases of our submarines. A feature of this spy plane was in the air that it could be up to 12 hours and a long, long forced to "go wild" air defense forces.
The task the duty of the Su-27 was to control the actions of "Orion" and to prevent violations of the state border. The plane was piloted by First Lieutenant Vasily Tsymbal. Everything happened as a normal "bell" crash.
But! Someone, perhaps, remember, while on Sunday, at 11.00 began on television program "Morning mail", which sounded hits Soviet music. And we watched this show everything. In general, all of her look, including a link house, except ... Except the pilot Vasily Cymbala. Since the "Orion" will "hang out" at the border do not know how long. It's a shame! And Basil began to "chase" "Orion".
And he worked specifically on the fairway exit our boats on alert. Dropping radio to determine when to exit the boat on duty. Basil started to carry out the passages of "Orion", the attack on him several times visited, jet engines knocked off course, aerobatics around it twisted. As a result, the keel touched, "Orion" right wing engine propeller, causing propeller broke, and its fragments struck the fuselage "Orion".
All! "Orion" gave up and headed for the base. Basil Tsymbal reports to the command post - "Orion" leaves to the base. He is given the green light to return to the airfield. Basil makes a battle turn, catching up with "Orion", comes ahead of the fuel starts to drain directly to the cockpit and the fuselage. "Obgadit" Basil reconnaissance plane as I could. Then he returned to the airport and still had time to see the "Morning Post" nothing to anyone about the incident reporting.
When viewed from the Su-27, the technician reported that the aircraft has a little damage right keel. Bob asks his techniques, which you managed to get into? "When maneuvers keels shaking, that, probably, and broken." This often happened in the past, nothing special, so just replaced the keel and forget about this story well.
Earlier in the day reconnaissance aircraft in the Barents Sea does not appear. The whole day was quiet and sunny. The rout began in the evening. "Orion" crawled to his airfield. The incident was notified, the Soviet ambassador in Norway. Information is in Moscow, where the Minister of Defense, from him to the Commander Air Defence. The regiment commander comes Corps begin proceedings. Basil, like a normal officer replied that there was nothing normal flight.
And all would do, but with the "Orion" side were filming all Su-27 maneuvers. Moreover, the Norwegians asked Vasya during shooting to remove the mask, which he gladly did, and to pose colleagues. A copy of all the material was handed over to the Ambassador of Norway. And the next day went to the magazine Vasina physiognomy and well visible board SS number. Yes, NATO has begun to transmit greetings Vase.
In short, Cymbala moved away from sin Krymsk in the Krasnodar region, and the regiment long pass tests for all sorts of instructions and Rules ....
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