They look, we look:
US Air Force F-22 stealth fighters intercepted two sets of two Russian Tupolev Tu-95 bombers, one of which was accompanied by two Su-35 fighter escorts, off the coast of Alaska on [May 20th], according to North American Aerospace Defense Command.
If I was in charge of the Russians, I'd send Tu-95s loaded with every sensor my scientists could devise and take advantage of the ability to test them out against our top stealth fighter.
Why don't we send up F-15s for these routine missions?
Unless, of course, we are sending up old F-22s without using even what they do have in order to lull the Russians into thinking they know what our F-22s can do.