A storm in a teacup. Just sabre rattling to see what they could achieve ... normal Cold War activity. Nothing to get mad about. I mean, what was a Poseidon doing there anyway if it wasn't muscle flexing?
Seriously? And they say Boris Johnson is mad! This is La La Land in extremis! What about all those container ships keeping England supplied with essential goods? They use minimally refined heavy oil and would likely produce more pollution in one trip from Hong Kong to Britain than all the Exec Jets flying into the UK would do in a year. One of the major by-products of burning jet fuel (essentially kerosene) is a chemical consisting of hydrogen and oxygen known as H2O ... water! How evil! And don't get me started on contrails, pleeeese!
Today's airliners cannot land safely at maximum take-off weight, hence the heavy landing, bouncing and gear collapse. Given that the pilots didn't attempt to dump surplus fuel indicates that a real time-critical emergency was already present.
What? How was it that a B-200 King Air "followed the jets from a distance of 2,000 feet, snapping their trek through the sound barrier at 1,400 frames per second." This can't be right. A King Air maxes out at about 310 kt/574 km/h. The sound barrier is 667 kt/1,235 km/h, so what gives?
