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Ukraine crisis: US sends F-16 fighter jets to Poland
The Telegraph ^ | 06 Mar 2014 | Barney Henderson

Posted on 03/06/2014 9:56:38 AM PST by lizol

17.42 Poland's defence ministry has confirmed that the US military will send 12 F-16 fighter jets and 300 service personnel to Poland next week for a training exercise whose scope was expanded in response to the crisis in neighbouring Ukraine.

Tomasz Siemoniak said the training exercise, centred on the Lask air force base in central Poland, was originally to have been smaller and involved only transport aircraft. He said Poland requested it be beefed up after Russia's intervention in Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: poland; ppoland; russia; ukraine
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1 posted on 03/06/2014 9:56:38 AM PST by lizol
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But with no anti-missile system to protect them from a Russian first strike, what is their purpose? Also, a handful of jets within flying distance of one of the largest and most competent air forces in the world? Oh, there’s some good thinking.


2 posted on 03/06/2014 9:59:03 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: lizol

Are we nuts or what?? There is absolutely no reason for these fighters except to antagonize.


3 posted on 03/06/2014 10:00:25 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: lizol
32 Tactical Air Base in Lask











4 posted on 03/06/2014 10:05:09 AM PST by lizol
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To: lizol

We must show the world that we are DOING something!! /s


5 posted on 03/06/2014 10:08:01 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Sacajaweau

Common sense is not generally to be found in Washington DC. These days, the qualities needed to get elected often preclude the quality of good sense. The conventional wisdom on the Potomac is madness when it comes to foreign affairs.


6 posted on 03/06/2014 10:09:41 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Gen.Blather
one of the largest and most competent air forces in the world

LOL -- Russian pilots get almost no training.

There are several Patriot AA missile batteries in Poland.

7 posted on 03/06/2014 10:12:38 AM PST by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
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To: Sacajaweau

Yep. Complete stipidity on our part to intervene. We don’t want a gayed up and feminized led military to try and take on a “real” army with “real men” who will twist them like pretzels if they engage in limp wrist-to-hand combat


8 posted on 03/06/2014 10:13:21 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Sacajaweau
Are we nuts or what?? There is absolutely no reason for these fighters except to antagonize.

This must be penance for abandoning Poland with our promised missile defense system that was aborted by Obama.

9 posted on 03/06/2014 10:14:58 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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To: lizol


Lavrov: Why the long face?
Kerry: I was about to ask you the same question.
10 posted on 03/06/2014 10:20:21 AM PST by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: lizol

Just what kind of man-ly man would have made a decision like this?


11 posted on 03/06/2014 10:23:32 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: pierrem15

“Russian pilots get almost no training.”

Given the huge investment a fighter represents that’s not likely true any longer. During the early ‘90’s, probably. Russia was broke. But, they’re rolling in oil money now. It would be foolish to have pilots who were not qualified to fight as well as their adversaries.

From what I read about the Patriots in Gulf 1, they just as frequently hit the ejected fuel tanks as the free-falling warhead. They were not nearly as good as the military claimd; the claims being for political purposes rather than military.


12 posted on 03/06/2014 10:23:33 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: lizol

The Air Force should throw a few F-22’s into that mix.Or at least make the claim they’re doing that.

The Russian’s would never know untill they got stung.


13 posted on 03/06/2014 10:25:11 AM PST by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: lizol
Kościuszko -WE ARE HERE!
14 posted on 03/06/2014 10:30:34 AM PST by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: Gen.Blather

Are the Russians’ missiles sufficiently trained?

The Patriots are several blocks advanced from where they were in ‘91. I’m not sure if the Pols have any of the ballistic intercept-capable missiles.


15 posted on 03/06/2014 10:30:36 AM PST by Justa
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To: Sacajaweau

That is the reason.


16 posted on 03/06/2014 10:40:01 AM PST by Psalm 144 (My citizenship is not here, Pharaoh.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Well, maybe the reason is, that one of your most loyal allies feels threatend by an agressive neighbour?

You know - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, an alliance, brothers in arms (Afghanistan, Iraq), things like that.


17 posted on 03/06/2014 10:44:38 AM PST by lizol
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To: lizol

Looks like an electronics pod on one of those. Not exactly a sneaky move.


18 posted on 03/06/2014 10:44:44 AM PST by CodeToad (Keeping whites from talking about blacks is verbal segregation!)
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To: exit82

A billion dollars that we pulled out of our ..... is certainly doing something. It’s called REALISTICALLY...a bribe....something forbidden by the 1994 Memorandum.


19 posted on 03/06/2014 10:51:42 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Tenacious 1

That’s a good point and I’m afraid (with all the mikes off) Poland shoved it to us on that little item.


20 posted on 03/06/2014 10:53:02 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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