The fighters looked around the ocean for a while and then turned around and headed back home. Unlike Europe, where there is a foreign border everywhere you turn, the Russian Far East was renowned for its spaciousness: there was plenty of room to move around in. The fighters burned their fuel doing not very much and then returned to base. When the pilots landed, their fuel tanks were empty, which proved how diligently they had conducted their search.
Naturally, all these flights and maneuvers in the skies were undertaken just to put on a front. In other words, the personnel on duty had ordered planes to intercept just to show that they were doing something, while the fighter pilots had pretended to be searching just to show that they were also doing something. The fighters were still airbo
