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Posted on 08/04/2009 5:18:46 PM PDT by GOPinCa
Edited on 08/04/2009 5:20:25 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense officials say two nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines have been patrolling in international waters off the East Coast for several days.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Since the Bush Administration decided to shut down NAS Brunswick, by 2011 the only patrol coverage of P3 Orions for the East coast will be out of NAS Jacksonville, with a real strain on personnel and equipment. A number of us spoke forcefully of the threat Russian boomers would pose without the P3 coverage out of the Northeast. Rumsfeld told us he knew better and to shut up, that the Russians would never again pose any threat.
Well it could be worse it could be an assault weapon but this is just an attack one.
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Well, maybe they are trying to keep the sharks away and ruining the fun of people at the shore? Seriously, I suspect they are “testing the water,” in a manner of speaking. Obama is in the WH. It is apparent that he is weak on protecting the US. Perhaps they want to see just how far they can push him.
I guess he will have to spend a lot of the tax payers money for his private army to keep the common people in line.
There are a lot of very, very, very angry people who may do drastic things if he does not see the forest for the trees. While he may believe that he is as popular as the press days that he is, i still feel if there is no change in his approach 2010 will be a blood bath for those who support his policies and ignore the voters. If that were to happen, the same press who support him now will turn on him like he was a bleeding man in the water with sharks all around.
Obama is probably getting ready to apologize for not providing a Navy escort for these “visiting” Russian subs...
Bambi’s answer to everything when it comes to our enemies is to apologize. President Loser.
Not withstanding the nukes.
If the Rusky boomers have attack subs shadowing them, they aren’t going to launch (it takes time to do). They’re just rattling sabers, and dreaming of the days when they actually mattered. It is a propoganda exercise, using military equipment.
The subs we know about are not the problem. Contemporary diesel electric subs are a different matter, and would be more of a challenge. A leading edge diesel electric sub can be quite formidable. Ask the US Navy. ;-)
Blind Man’s Bluff!
Had a friend on the Halibut, awesome recollections.
Still goin’ on!
Folks - we have a Kenyan born islamo-marxist in the white hut that is nationalizing every industry plus many states and probably the federal govt are bankrupt and you are worrying about Russians?
Hopefully Vlad will take over NY because it is broke.
Their presence must be known if they are used for symbolic purpose and not for an attack (that would be impossibly unlikely today.) As other posters suggested they simply send a message to Obama, and that message is probably about Georgia, considering the anniversary of that brief war. As a secondary benefit the sailors get more experience.
Emergency! Everybody to get from street!
Noted and very well reasoned.
Yes feb. America’s standing in the world has been severely damaged & weakened by Zer0’s foreign policy.
The sorry thing it was defense officials who let the info out, not the russians calling up a talk show to thumb their noses at us. As long as those cans laid up in Minsk, it is surprising they were even considerd for underwater operations.
So that’s what that grating, clanking sound came from this past weekend when I was fishing the 100 fathom mark South of Block Island.
Which reminds me...I heard a report yesterday (source?) that Zer0 hasn't been to church for the last 11 weeks. Phoney, indeed. "I'm a Christian"...yeah, right.
LOL ... cue the Jaws music.
OMG!
OT???
Sorry, but this story continues to trouble me.
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Obama part of group locked up at Russian airport // U.S. delegation stripped of passports as guards demand to inspect plane
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Monday, August 29, 2005
Author: Lynn Sweet, Sun-Times Washington Bureau chi
WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) were not allowed to leave a Russian airport Sunday and were locked in a room briefly.
The incident prevented their departure for about three hours, but Obama told the Sun-Times “it ended up not being a very big deal.”
The senators had their passports seized by local officials at an airport in Perm. Obama said the officials demanded, unsuccessfully, to inspect the DC-9 military aircraft being used by the congressional delegation for the trip.
‘It wasn’t the gulag’
“We were in a lounge with a locked door at one point,” Obama said. “It wasn’t the gulag.”
Obama , who will meet with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko today in Kiev, is on his first foreign visit as senator. He said he was never concerned that the group would be taken into custody, because after all, “we are a couple of U.S. senators.”
Although he was on a first-time diplomatic mission, Obama has traveled extensively, spending part of his youth in Indonesia and visiting Kenya, where his father was born. He noted that as a back- packing college student he had “a lot less leverage than this time.”
Obama , a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Lugar, its chairman, left Wednesday for a trip to inspect sites where nuclear and biological weapons are slated to be destroyed in Russia , Ukraine and Azerbaijan. On Sunday, the U.S. group was scheduled to fly from Perm to Kiev, Ukraine. But border guards wanted proof that the group’s aircraft — which Obama said looked like a “mini-Air Force One” — was really an official U.S. government plane, which would be exempt from an inspection.
Robert Gibbs, Obama ‘s spokesman traveling with him, said in an e-mail that “the border guards took our passports and demanded to inspect our aircraft, which we refused. We were moved to a room to wait.”
“At one point they were demanding to inspect virtually everything, including the gifts their representatives at the missile facility had given us.” The border guard said “they were acting on the authority of the FSB,” the Russian intelligence agency.
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