[RusIvan]

It is interesting did they really do undetected?

[A. Pole]

U.S. Air Force is now investigating why its military was unable to detect the Russian bombers

Stealth technology?

[armydawg1]

I highly doubt that the Russians with their military rusting away and falling apart could send planes undetected towords the USA.

[Jaxter]

Neither one looks very stealthy:

TU-95

TU-160

[Psycho_Bunny]

Old time bluster, I'm betting.

How would the Lieutenant General know they weren't detected? 

And that's assuming the planes actually went into the Arctic zone.

[jimtorr]

I'd guess that the recently defunct Canadian government sabotaged the NORAD radar systems years ago. They didn't want to participate in any anti-missile systems.

[AppyPappy]

It is interesting did they really do undetected?

Probably. We most likely don't have AWAC planes up there all the time. The old radar net was built to pick up high-flyers.

[edpc]

This entire article is based upon what the Russian Air Commander has stated, printed on a Russian based site. Dubious information, at best.

[Rokke]

It isn't much of a stretch to say we probably knew the names of the pilots as they stepped to their aircraft. Before they got their engines running, we'd already assessed what type of threat they represented. And by the time they were airborne we'd already settled in to watch their "exercise" with a mixture of amusement and nostalgia about the threat they used to represent.

Of course, it also isn't a stretch to consider the possibility that this Russian exercise never really happened.

[beckaz]

Say it's true. Why would they tell us?

Only reason I can think of, ad gimmick to sell their wares?

[TADSLOS]

Detected, yes. Gave a crap- no.

[Drango]

Message below:

Hide it by turning it white!

This could be the technology the Russians were using!

[dakine]

DEW line closed...? Thought they were automated...

[VaBthang4]

YYYAAAAAWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNN...........

These idiots lied like Children when they had a little bit of Power behind them...what should I expect now?

[manwiththehands]

Consider the source. This is propaganda.

[Gorzaloon]

We probably just shrugged and assumed they were being delivered to the Air and Space Museum, or being traded at the desert graveyard for two old B-52's for some Mob Collector.

[Sub-Driver]

Blinders? I though they were decomm'd. Too damn old.

[SandRat]

Did they now? Are you sure? hehehehehehehehe Are you sure this wasn't a practice run for a Aerial Skeet-Shoot Rally?

[The Electrician]

The U.S. zone of the Arctic Ocean? Sounds like Alaska. So, what is Ted Stevens going to do about it? Build another bridge?

[Chode]

keep telling yerself that igore... what ever gets you to sleep at night.

[R.W.Ratikal]

All during the Cold War Russian Bear Bombers flew up and down the Atlanta costline of the U. S. They were detected but flew just the same. Russian bombers based in Cuba also covered the Panama Canal are and off the Pacific coast.