Posted on 06/28/2012 7:59:06 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Obama will not say or do anything about this. He wants America destroyed and would welcome the help of any Russian who would contribute to his evil plans.
Our wimpy Chief and President won’t do a thing. He is only brave enough to create expensive programs where money can be spent. Heaven forbid that one of them is now considered a tax increase.
My thoughts exactly. obama must go.
Ping.
If Palin was still gov she would have made a big stink about this she had clearance way beyond obama before he became a hole in chief
We should use the same policy toward them.
Would you like to play a game Dr. Falken?
1) The ADIZ IS NOT SOVEREIGN US AIRSPACE. It extends hundreds of miles offshore of Alaska, and the U.S. doesn't "own" it.
2) This has been a routine occurrence in many previous administrations, and happened repeatedly at the end of the Bush administration. We've not been shooting down Russian bombers in the ADIZ previously so it's no suprise we didn't this time.
3) The US military is itself instructed to ignore the ADIZes of foreign countries.
Please! Those old TU-95 Bears are nearly 60 years old, prop driven, and cruise at less than 400 mph. They have the radar signature as big as a battleship and were likely tracked by an F22 sitting on the ground at Elmendorf (Anchorage).
Tu-95 production resumed in the 80s and 90s. Cruise speed is roughly the same as that of a B-52H and RCS isn't a big factor when you're launching standoff weapons from long range.
Couldn’t we “accidentally” not send any F-15s to intercept but once they enter US airspace do the intercept and force them to land or shoot them down?
Those Ruskie aircraft would make great museum pieces!
The bomber was made obsolete in August 1957 when the Soviet R-7 Semyorka was first introduced.
Robert McNamara realized this in the early 1960’s which is why he decided to build 1,000 Minuteman silos and 41 SSBNs.
...Interesting that very little coverage could be found on this several day exercise in the MSM , and what I did find was pictures of the older Bear class bombers and not the newer and more sophisticated hardware. So , does anyone recall what happened to mother Russia when we simultaneously parked all of those subs on their back door ? Thats right , they fell , and by the way, 1983 was put in checkmate.
Wasn't your previous pseudonym U-238?
USS Batfish (SSN-681) trailed a Soviet Yankee class boat for 44 days in 1978 during an operation called "Evening Star".
Batfish gained valuable info about the Soviet Yankee class SSBN.
Hope our F15 drivers had good earplugs.
IMO, if the violation has really took place it is a diplomatic move.
NATO told it was bad to down NATO combat aircraft in sovereign Syrian airspace and Russians are there to check what would NATO say about Russian aircraft in NATO airspace.
It is a loose-loose situation for State Dept to both condemn this flights and take measures to be caught on double standards or to show weakness ignoring it.
Checkmate.
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