Soon three big, eight-jet B-52 SAC bombers streaked into view in tight formation, peeled off and landed a minute apart, their huge brake parachutes billowing from their tails. Throttled down ...

SAC Sian Stephens/RAF One of the two Tu-160 Blackjack bombers encountered by RAF and Norwegian jets on Wednesday QRAs have happened since the Cold War era of the late 1940s to early 1990s.