[blam]

The Original Story:

Russian Bombers Buzz US Base In Guam

[familyop]

They should be escorted further in, shot down and made to disappear from the face of the earth, IMO (taken apart and buried).

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“The return of the airborne games of cat-and-mouse is likely to raise concern in Western capitals, where military chiefs will be puzzling over how to respond to Russia’s increasingly frequent displays of defiance.”

I suggest directed energy weapons.

Their ancient planes will just fall out of the sky.

[SampleMan]

"US planes went to an orbit point in preparation for an intercept that never occurred because the Bears didn't get close enough," said Admiral Robert F. Willard, employing a slang term for the Russian planes.

Official NATO callsigns don't equal "slang".

[Steely Tom]

I love this.

Their stupid air force is forced to stand down for what... 15 years? No money for fuel. No money for maintenance. During that time, their main “enemy,” which would be us, doesn’t lift a finger to threaten them, much less invade them or take their natural resources.

Then when they begin to get up off their backs economically, they’re right back at it again, saber rattling to show us how tough they are.

What’s the point?

Maybe they just want to be noticed.

[CGTRWK]

No Russian jets came anywhere near the base - Tu-95s are turboprops.

[Stallone]

Putin is returning Russia to Cold War mentality.

Remember how well it worked for them last time?

[sarasmom]

Russian “Bears” don’t “buzz” Guam.
They annoy the low level people who have to respond to them taking off from long distances, but if anyone cares to look on a map, they would understand that in order to “buzz” Guam, the US Navy would have to be entirely bypassed first.
This statistically improbable occurrence would be akin to the chances of the city of Las Vegas outlawing card games.
I might have considered waking up my air defense alert pilots on Guam for the typical Cold War “Bear buzzing threat”, if I wanted my waking life to become a living hell....

OTOH, my B52s “buzzed” the former USSR (now reduced to strictly Russian) ships and bases at will.

[RusIvan]

“US planes went to an orbit point in preparation for an intercept that never occurred because the Bears didn’t get close enough,” said Admiral Robert F. Willard, employing a slang term for the Russian planes. ==

But it is “close enough” - 300 miles. Bear may shoot all its missile payload and distruct whole base from this distance. Bear needs not to get over base until its airdefense isn’t suppressed.