This one's really sweet, cute in fact - I promise I'll go straight to bed and have a nap after this, but really, how cute is this true storys - firstly I'll just lightly paraphrase it for y'all: <paraphrase> Our American intelligence traps are the best! In fact, our bear traps are just the greatest - with our $104 million dollar B-52B StratoFortress cavorting the Black Sea, we got EIGHT Russian fighter jets sidling up and EXPOSING their radar signatures. Did I mention our intelligence traps are the best? No one does intelligence traps like us! We showed those Russians! We have B-52 StratoFortresses, and they great - they are just so good! They have "Fortress" in the name. They are strong. They are like a fortress in the sky! Our StratoFortresses are the BEST StratoFortresses in the world! And we literally ATE up the Russian radar signatures! We are awesome, and our intelligence traps are the best intelligence traps ever! </paraphrase> True story muffas, enjoy: The Pentagon Has 'Staged' Black Sea B-52 Intercepts As An "Intelligence Trap" For The Russians https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-has-staged-black-sea-b-52-in... ... The report describes that at the very moment the Russian fighters were coming extremely close to the B-52, even reportedly limiting its movement and coming within a mere 100 feet, two US RC-135 Rivet Joint electronic-intelligence planes were nearby scooping up useful data on the Su-27 aircraft. Ultimately the "trap" netted valuable intelligence on the Russian anti-air response and technology. ... Sorry if that's a little too lighthearted folks, it's just, I dunno, we need to lighten things up, and this one just tickles the funny bone. Let me just say for the record though, "Oh, dear me, those Russians must be just licking their wounds, they just gave up all that huge, huge sigint data to our glorious StratoFortress - yes, we are really awesome and those silly, silly Russians must be feeling so, so sad." There, I'm sure that improves our essential propaganda situation.