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Russian Strategic Bombers Flying Along California Coast
Breitbart ^ | 5/5/14 | Chriss W. Street

Posted on 05/05/2014 8:39:09 PM PDT by Nachum

The Associated Press reported Monday that Gen. Herbert Carlisle, Commander of United States Air Forces in the Pacific, acknowledged a significant increase in the activities by Russian long-range strategic aircraft flying along the California coast.

There was no comment about whether the aircraft were nuclear capable, but it has not been since the Cold War ended in the early 1990s that Russian patrols have skirted the West Coast and California.

Gen. Herbert J. "Hawk" Carlisle is the Commander of Pacific Air Forces; Air Component Commander for U.S. Pacific Command; and Executive Director, Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. As the PACAF, he is responsible for Air Force activities spread over half the globe in a command that supports 45,000 Airmen serving principally in Japan, Korea, Hawaii, Alaska and Guam.

Speaking Monday, May 5th at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan Washington DC think tank, General Carlisle said there had been long-range Russian air patrols to the coast of California and a circumnavigation of the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam. He noted that a U.S. F-15 fighter jet intercepted a Russian strategic bomber that had flown to Guam.

General Carlisle linked the increased activity and incursions to the situation in the Ukraine. He said Russia was demonstrating its capabilities and gathering intelligence on U.S. military exercises.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: bombers; california; coldwar2; communism; putinsbuttboys; russia; russian; sovietunion; strategic
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To: windcliff

An American did not write that sign. The apostrophes are written sideways.


21 posted on 05/05/2014 9:23:26 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: Nachum

Weakness will be exploited.

Testing response...or, in Ø’s case, the total lack thereof.


22 posted on 05/05/2014 9:24:30 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: Hoodat

UN forces


23 posted on 05/05/2014 9:25:03 PM PDT by mylife
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To: Hoodat

That US flag patch isn’t really adhered to the uniform, either. The edges are raised like it might have been taped on.


24 posted on 05/05/2014 9:25:59 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Hoodat

Good call.


25 posted on 05/05/2014 9:26:01 PM PDT by mylife
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To: GOPJ

Of course Putin controls him. It’s called being ‘flexible’.


26 posted on 05/05/2014 9:26:54 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: RegulatorCountry

That is kinda normal now.
No one wants to be tagged.


27 posted on 05/05/2014 9:28:44 PM PDT by mylife
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To: Hoodat

Most likely Eastern com block UN operatives


28 posted on 05/05/2014 9:30:29 PM PDT by mylife
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To: mylife
It's probably the Russkies who shut down the LAX's traffic control computers and Team 0bama is helping to cover for Putin by blaming it on OUR U2.

This problem goes all the way back to where Bama's parents met; in a Russian language class in the 60's!

29 posted on 05/05/2014 9:32:37 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Nachum
"...but it has not been since the Cold War ended in the early 1990s that Russian patrols have skirted the West Coast and California."

That's either a lie or extreme ignorance.

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30 posted on 05/05/2014 9:33:25 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Nachum
Russian flights set off new defense scramble
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912293/posts


31 posted on 05/05/2014 9:34:46 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Regulator

I ran a scenario on it once; just 3 20 kilo-ton weapons would do the trick.
But then I had to go and get greedy and do LA, Santa Monica, San Fran and the Bay area and the Inland Empire down south.
The program is online some where but I don’t remember what it was called.


32 posted on 05/05/2014 9:37:34 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Hoodat

Putin’s at it again.


33 posted on 05/05/2014 9:38:01 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Dunno why they shut down LAX over the U2. They fly out of Palmdale all the time.

Weird


34 posted on 05/05/2014 9:38:29 PM PDT by mylife
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To: Nachum

NO word whether it was nuclear capable? Did they really say that? In 1955 that might have made sense to ask. Today anything with a hardpoint can be nuclear capable.


35 posted on 05/05/2014 9:39:27 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: windcliff; Hoodat; mylife
Good eye, Hoodat. That hoax was used years ago.

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36 posted on 05/05/2014 9:41:13 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Something stinks.
To many coincidences.


37 posted on 05/05/2014 9:41:16 PM PDT by mylife
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To: Nachum
Special political interests have been lying to us about the effects of nuclear weapons. Nuclear war is much more survivable than presented in their false scenarios! Have a look at the effects of one of the most powerful warheads--warheads that will not be used, because much smaller yields are much more practical (costs, delivery, concealment, lack of extra effects with higher yields, etc.).

http://glasstone.blogspot.com/2009/11/groupthink-and-proliferation-why.html
Declassified effects of nuclear weapons and other threats: minimizing weapons effects on civilians
Can Britain and America prevail over an alliance of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea in WWIII? American sanctions on Japan in 1940 led to Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, so beware of the lessons of history Mr President, and get civil defense Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Evidence that inaccurate statements about weapons effects have historically caused increased threats to national security, instead of reducing them

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EFFECTS OF THE EXPLOSION OF A THERMO-NUCLEAR BOMB


38 posted on 05/05/2014 9:42:06 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Nachum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpvFEwRDOkA&feature=kp


39 posted on 05/05/2014 9:43:05 PM PDT by darkangel82
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To: Nachum
Well, those of us in CA would like to know if they were Bears or Blackjacks!

It matters.

40 posted on 05/05/2014 9:43:58 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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