Prop driven...relic of the Cold War...show of force maybe or trying to sell them to potential buyers? Of course Obama isn't going to do anything - he's on vacation in Hawaii!
Posted on 12/21/2014 10:10:37 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The key phrase in the article is "they restarted in 2007", so apparently Obama is doing the same thing that Bush did.
If there is no violation of air space, should we nukem anyway?
I’m surprise Obama and Kerry didn’t invite the Russian bombers to land on Guam and give the crews lunch as a gesture of “good will”.
Prop driven...relic of the Cold War...show of force maybe or trying to sell them to potential buyers? Of course Obama isn't going to do anything - he's on vacation in Hawaii!
Not sure why this gets such coverage. The USSR did this for decades. We reciprocated. Their bombers would approach the N.A. ADIZ, we scramble Phantoms, the pilots wave at each other and the Bears head home. A flight of Buffs would approach the Soviet ADIz, they scrambled Migs, the pilots waved to each other and the Buffs headed home. A cold war game that went on for forty years. Hardly anything to work up a sweat over.
International airspace?Those bears and backfire bombers of the Russian Air Force could launch land attack cruise missiles from that distance and attack this country quite easily.
Instead of shrinking our Air Force we need to be building our Air Defense forces up.
Old Vladimir is surely rebuilding his.
Prop driven...relic of the Cold War...
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It’s a turboprop with a swept wing and almost as fast as a jet. The B-52 also comes from the Cold War, and both have had long and useful lives.
RE post 5: let us hope so.
Who said anything about nuking them? I’d go Buzz around their territory though, the little shites.
The high Arctic is actually America's first line of defense against Russian bombers. If it ever happens they will come in over Alaska and Western Canada and in the east over Greenland and Labrador.
Look on the bright side. The US has at least one solid ally in one defense sector. Maybe you could let us finance and build a pipeline and a bridge?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/07/1266893/-Cold-War-Relics-TU-95-Bear#
Why do we tolerate this?
We already do that. Don't you remember when China forced down the US aircraft? 2001
“Prop driven...relic of the Cold War...”
Actually, it’s an amazing design and also very fuel efficient even by today’s standards...and also supposedly one of the noisiest aircraft ever built.
That was a spy plane wasn’t it? I am talking about fighters/bombers and Russian territory. We stop when they stay the hell away from our territory.
Bellicose? I don’t give a damn, these Russian swine need to be put in their place.
Our war planes need to initiate missile lock on these intruders; get into a kill position, lock on, & let these pilots know they are seconds from oblivion.
Putin needs to know we will vigorously defend our airspace, every damn time.
[a] I don't know that, but with F-22's stationed there and on alert it is common sense to assume they were up.
[b] Scrambles and alerts are not always reported and in some cases personal photographs taken by Hornet jocks I have seen are pretty funny.
[c] The USAF would not admit in that theatre of operation if they were up and airborne to the Russians or anyone else for that matter, and the Russians are most likely attempting goad them up and than to gather as much intelligence as they can on F-22 signals, tactics, abilities, intercept procedures, etc...
[F] no "D" and go straight to F for failure if we left a whole squadron on the deck that could be knocked out without two up and ready to take out the bear's if they turned in toward the base.
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