Posted on 12/26/2018 11:08:03 PM PST by familyop
La Orchila Airport runway is 10,499 feet long, but the Russians will probably build their naval base separately. I wonder if some Floridians from New York will get some of the building contracts to help the Russians nuke Florida in the near future.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/11.8071/-66.1413
Looks like shallow bedrock with sand over it. The Russian military will be happy with this.
Isla La Orchila - Venezuela - La Orchila island, Venezuela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTW—h0H_84
You as many other Americans vastly overate the Russians. The main reason they are not at war with anybody is because they can’t afford it.
Single runway -- 10,000 feet "from pad to feet-wet" (claimed 10499 feet...)
Virtually zero apparent facilities (ILS, Tower, POL, etc.)
Marked parking to handle about five (5) TU-160s--with the wings fully-swept back.
Largest observed A/C on pad: De Havilland Twin Otter or Shorts 360-size.
TXnMA
On the matter of La Orchila, in the world of conspiracy theorists who favor the CSTO, its outposts and its allies in the new axis, Russia builds the most advanced military equipment in the world but cannot build an airstrip and naval air station facilities. The planned development is easily doable.
For readers here who’ve done some construction design and building,...
Isla La Orchila - Venezuela | La Orchila island, Venezuela | Ilha La Orchila - Venezuela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTW—h0H_84
I just got back from living in Russia for almost a year and a half (and Im in the process of buying some real estate for when I return). From everything Ive seen, their military is top notch (pretty much all new equipment across the board) and new infrastructure is going up everywhere (and this was in Krasnodar, far from Moscow). Russia is nowhere close to the bad place so many Freepers think it is.
Thank you, and I agree. Please let me add one further thought. We have armed forces to fight against “enemies foreign and domestic”. Well, dear Freepers, we will never defeat the enemies foreign unless we first defeat the enemies domestic.
As Sun Tzu knew. As the Romans knew. As most of the US seems to have forgotten.
The Monroe Doctrine relates to foreign efforts to take over or interfere with independent countries in our hemisphere. If the Venezuelans invite the Russians in, it doesn't apply. Remember that while the Monroe Doctrine was announced, Britain, France, Spain, Holland, and Denmark all had colonies in the New World.
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