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Norad Admits F-22 Fighter Jets Intercepted 4 Russian Bombers 50 Miles Off California Coast
"At the height of the Cold War I do not remember them getting this close," notes a retired Air Force Lt. Gen. as The Washington Free Beacon reports that four Russian strategic bombers triggered U.S. air defense systems while conducting practice bombing runs near Alaska this week, with two of the Tu-95 Bear H aircraft coming within 50 miles of the California coast, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) confirmed Wednesday. Two U.S. Air Force F-22 jets were scrambled and intercepted the bombers over the Aleutians but the remaining two nuclear-capable bombers then flew southeast and entered the U.S. northern air defense zone off the coast of Northern California, before 2 more F-15s were scrambled. As House Armed Services Committee member Connaway ranted, "truth of the matter is we would have squashed either one of those [bombers] like baby seals."
As The Washington Free Beacon explains, Four Russian strategic bombers triggered U.S. air defense systems while conducting practice bombing runs near Alaska this week, with two of the Tu-95 Bear H aircraft coming within 50 miles of the California coast, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) confirmed Wednesday.
Davis said the latest Bear H incursions began Monday around 4:30 p.m. Pacific time when radar detected the four turbo-prop powered bombers approaching the U.S. air defense zone near the far western Aleutian Islands.
Two U.S. Air Force F-22 jets were scrambled and intercepted the bombers over the Aleutians.
After tracking the bombers as they flew eastward, two of the four Bears turned around and headed west toward the Russian Far East. The bombers are believed to be based at the Russian strategic base near Anadyr, Russia.
The remaining two nuclear-capable bombers then flew southeast and around 9:30 P.M. entered the U.S. northern air defense zone off the coast of Northern California.
Two U.S. F-15 jets were deployed and intercepted the bombers as they eventually flew within 50 miles of the coast before turning around and heading west.
A defense official said the four bombers also were supported by two IL-78 aerial refueling tankers that were used for mid-air refueling during the operation this week.
The bomber incursion is the latest Russian nuclear saber-rattling amid stepped up tensions over Moscow’s military annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea.
Rep. Mike Conaway (R., Texas), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, called the Russian flights “intentional provocations.”
“Putin is doing this specifically to try to taunt the U.S. and exercise, at least in the reported world, some sort of saber-rattling, muscle-flexing kind of nonsense,” Conaway said in an interview. “Truth of the matter is we would have squashed either one of those [bombers] like baby seals.”
“It’s a provocation and it’s unnecessary. But it fits in with [Putin’s] macho kind of saber-rattling,” he said, adding that he expects Russia will carry out more of these kinds of incidents in the future.
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a former Alaska commander for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, said he does not remember a case of Russian strategic bombers coming that close to the U.S. coast.
“Again we see the Obama administration through their covert—but overt to Mr. Putin—unilateral disarmament, inviting adventurism by the Russians,” McInerney said in an email.
“At the height of the Cold War I do not remember them getting this close. Mr. Putin had to approve this mission and he is just showing his personal contempt for President Obama right after meeting him in Normandy less than a week ago,” McInerney said.
McInerney said no American president has been treated with such disrespect in U.S. history.
“A sad day indeed and at the same time Mosul and Tikrit [Iraq] fall to radical Islamists after the Obama administration’s failed Iraq policy,” he added. “He snatched defeat from the jaws of victory yet again.”
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McInerney was part of the big push about Obongo's fake birth certificate... along with General Vallerey... the both have long known that Bad BO was a fraud and a douchebag.
Great sarcastic humor here, Tyler:
Expand that to a couple of paragraphs and you might just give MDB a run for his money.
;-)
All it takes to end all life on this planet is a 100 megaton blast. The dust would diminish the sunlight enough to ruin a growing season. Then the riots happen because pschos would rather kill then pay for a $1000 big mac.
The elite would run to spider holes but end up killing each other over the TV remote.
Russa doesn't have to do anything but wait for China Yuan to become the next gold standard.
Its just all fun an games untill someone loses an eye.
"truth of the matter is we would have squashed either one of those [bombers] like baby seals."
Which means what?
Fuck me. I thought the article read "baby seats".
Which makes about as much sense.
" McInerney said no American president has been treated with such disrespect in U.S. history."
Oh yeah? No American president/first lady have so completely disrespected the American people in U.S. history.
How can putin or anyone else for that matter respect a democratically elected leader (crony capitalist sociopath puppet) that openly states that he is going to drain the wealth from the American people and destroy their standard of living because it is the right thing to do?
McInerney said no American president has been treated with such disrespect in U.S. history.
When was the last time we had a president that lied, stole, covered, lied, took rogue action, lied, crushed Liberty, and any other heinous action I left out....more than our current?
If there was a Heavyweight Belt for fucktards......
You mean, other than Bush-Cheney?
The last time? It was Obama.
Knowing the first time is more interesting.
This is between Obama and Putin. Let them fight it out mano-a-mano. Winner take all.
Wait. Never mind.
aside: I live in California. 50 miles is too close. It would have brought a smile to my face if one of ours would have popped a cap up one of theirs. Or force it land at least. And why was it TWO fighters scrambled and not TWENTY?
Our fighters are not like american cops. They don't have to fire hundreds of times in order to hit their intended targets.
Think one and done.
The price of fuel in a non-producing country. Can you understand that ?
This is clearly a signal from Russia that it will not just roll over if Nato and the US continues its aggressive policy towards them. Lets hope Washington has enough intelligence to take heed. If that republican prick McConaway is typical that is not a good sign
it is a signal that putin is going to nuke nyc.
Maybe the Russkies were looking for a lost missile or something.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwFmjARCvT4
"No US president has been deserving of such disrespect in US history." is what i think he meant to say
Putin is showing Obama how easy it would be to bomb the US. Another couple years and we'll be stopping them over Iowa.
No, it will be The Republic of California's problem by then.
Give them the address for Nancy Pelosi so they can drop a few gifts
Two us fighters dumped last week. One in the Pacific and the other crashed over San diego.
The last Russian bombers off the coast saw the air traffic go down later blamed on a u2 overflight.
Sweden is Just Thankful It Is Someone Else For A change
More American zenophobia...first they would deny millions of people the international (Comintern) right to pour over a false construct called the border of the United States, now those same racists would scream about another country flying in international airspace.
this post was white hours but now its been upgraded to grey, stiatuition is heating up.
Why can't they just let them fly in, head to DC, drop their bombs, so the world can be a better place?
WOW! what a hypocrisy!
US insisted that it has the right to fly anywhere over international airspace, defined as 12 miles out of any shores of any sovereign country. In fact, US routined flying over China's airspace closer to the 12 miles of shores.
So, Russian flew over 50 miles off the shores of the US...and that was disrespect to the US president...
Hey, Bomber, took that to the president of the People's Republic of China
Double standard, hypo-crazy---
According to Wikipedia, the Tu-95 Bear is old, small, slow, and notoriously loud. It has propellers! The Russians chose not to fly the Tu-160 Blackjack - which is newer, bigger, faster, and overall way more threatening.
If this is Putin making a statement, it seems more like an insult than a provocation.
Putin is just fucking with us. He's playing Chess in 5 dimensions while O'bummer thinks the game is Checkers.
Yeah, and just regular checkers at that. Chinese checkers would be asking to much of the POTUS.
One 'american' stated on this site that Obama was eating the pieces. That is a very good depiction of what is going on. It could be added that not only Obama is eating the pieces, but various next US American presidents are going to eat the chessboard.
Putin sticks to a familiar pattern because that familiar pattern comforts him and Putin does not want to see what 'americans' are doing.
Better for Putin to keep playing chess.
Chess? Remember the story told on here before?
Putin said dealing with Obama was like playing chess with a pigeon. He knocks all the pieces over, shits on the board then struts around as if he had won the match.
Good visual on that one, hope he actually said it and is not just the fertile mind of a ZHer.
The assumption that our F-22s can easily splash otherwise helpless baby seal Russian bombers may not be accurate. I doubt the Russian bombers are defenseless. And when they come for real they will have a lot of friends with them. This looks more like a 'send the message' run and something to gather Sigint from the US response.
Hmmm, maybe instead of bales of marijuana washing up on the shores of Southern California, we will start discovering crates of fine Russian vodka instead? A man can dream...
Got weary from dreamin' and learned to make my own. Life got better since then.
Based on how america is "defending" it's borders they probably think they can just land at LAX...
Put the Mexican flag on the tail and they can...
Would anyone in the government of the USSA care to say how many thousand times per year US aircraft fly within 50 miles of Russian territory? No takers?
Peace sells, but who's buying?
putin sold peace down the river. time for a nuclear war soon.
where is Scoop Jackson and sam Nunn when you need them ?
Message delivered. A very clear middle finger to the spineless campaigner in chief.
"It's true, this man has not dick." - Dr. Peter Venkman
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it's the real time NSA monitoring
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"Hey, Bill! Look, an ad for anti-nsa spyware."
"Cool, Jim, get some for the office. Who makes it?
"nsa, so it must be good."
"It's true, this man has no dick." - Dr. Peter Venkman
Freak out!
Freak out!
MUST.....INCREASE....DEFENSE......SPENDING.........
Fnord
The 'american' taste for conspiracy can be easily understood: 'americans' have installed such a determinism everything goes by the plan. Up to a marvelous plan.
Putin's behaviour is an odd ball. Going that much on the way 'americans' want him to go indeed look like Putin is instructed to behave the way he is behaving.
On this site, it has been announced for years that 'americans' would use the opportunity of having a negro in the oval office to set a new standard to toughen their policies.
The idea behind it is very simple: next US American president will not be able to do less than Obama in certain regards because doing less than Obama would mean doing less than a negro.
Every next president's margin of action is going to be squared by that standard.
It is exactly what it is going on: Obama is ended in 2016 and the next US president is already be sent a message: Obama is the threshold the next president must not go under.
Is Russia's situation so desperate they need a war to get out of their dead end? Because they are eating their space of negotiation very fast.
Dude - smoke a joint or take your meds - the delusion is palpable.
“Truth of the matter is we would have squashed either one of those [bombers] like baby seas"
I wonder if he is a Frank Zappa fan.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=kp&v=JhHCcUnm4SI
In real situation those bombers would have released their cargo 1000km before.
Check.
Are those Bears not loaded with long-range stand-off weapons like cruise missiles, etc?
A two year old ballerina drenched in oil plays with matches.
The Russian people look on and think:
"Oh, how adorable that our glass slippered Kremlin princess is so very clever. We should give him more matches and more oil!"
Recent events show just how fragile things are for Europe and USA oil-wise --- wonder if Russia was behind this just to remind US of their weak points.
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why would the russian worry when norad and the usa military could not intercept 4 bombers cruising around the most protected air space in the world for a coupla hours. squash them like baby seals, indeed. those bombers could have done the usa a favor and flattened la so we could have some krugman style economic stimulus.
This is a non event, and who gives a shit what a retired general says anyway, you have to suck some serious ass to get to be a general, and probably some dick in Obamas army, anybody with a spine, brain or integrity is culled out. #osprey
And Mike Conaway (Idiot Texas) congrats you got noticed, warmonger for sure, probably an open borders whore too.
I was right, fucking wallpaper. https://www.numbersusa.com/content/my/congress/1179/reportcard/CONGRESS/...is
The US govt is engaging in economic warfare with Russia, and direct warfare with Ukrainians, we're literally murdering ethnic Russian civilians by proxy, to fund Mobeurostan.
If Putin were going to attack anybody he go after the Kenyan, its personal, he ain't got a beef with America, just our criminal President.
Colin Powell, #shill I'm sure he's got a $imilar opinion, I bet he'll chime in tommorow for moar war, then blame Bush. Spoke too soon he's in Cannes selling fried chicken or something http://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2014/06/colin-powell-to-open-tfwa-cannes/
3rd down and 7....Russia....needs to keep the drive going...
Pootin....takes the snap....backpeddles to throw........LOOKING...LOOKING....
FIRES...over the coastline...
INTER-CEPTED BY #22 Raptor!....
Raptor runs....AND HE FUMBLES THE BALL!!!!
What? No shooting???? No Goose and Maverick? No shiny Russian MIG's????
Wake me when the smell of cordite is in the air.....
Putin has been trying hard to make that business a personal thing. He's been trying hard to personalize the events in Obama.
But it has nothing personal. Obama (or anyone else) could not have achieved the result in his mandate years. This is the result of continued policy that started way before Obama's term.
For Obama, there is nothing personal in that stuff, he is just carrying out the policy imposed by his master, his 'american' middle class.
And the next US president will also have to answer to the same 'american' master: his 'american' middle class.
To be up to his mastermind reputation, Putin must show something else because the past is full of Indians or negroes who did not show such deep cases of cognitive disonances as Putin shows. They had the reality right. But much less means though than Putin.
McInerney said no American president has been treated with such disrespect in U.S. history.
That is EXACTLY the respect this president deserves...
Hey - he drew a red line...
He earned it all by his lonesome.
In fact, he's a regular Lonesome Roads.
(Face in the Crowd)
50 miles off the coast of California ? If they flew that close then they were allowed to fly that close. Or were they stealth planes which just suddenly turned up on the radar out the blew. /sark
Don't tell me that the USA can't see anything and everythin that flies east of Hawaii.
" one of the noisiest military aircraft on the planet."
What better way than to test newer stealth equipment while everyone looks at the loud clown.
Do we scramble for Aeroflot flights that land here? Just damn!
Makes you wonder about those mass military firings.
I wonder how many loyal Americans are left in the top echelon of the Defense Dept. that could possibly initiate a coup and make it succeed.
I wonder what that would look like with all these steroid addled cops with their mil-spec gear. I don't see Obama holding on to any loyalty.
It's not unheard of for military provisional govt.'s to stand down once legitimate civilian control is established.
It would be the best way to clean out the rats without a huge loss of life.
You also have to think about where all the guys are who were forced out by the Queen.
That is a pretty large counter-group if they ever got together.
Problem for the US with a nuclear attack is the agressor can shoot off a few hundred missiles in one attack, only one or two with the nuclear warhead..... good luck in shooting down the right ones.
And you would think some of the earliest real missiles would be on ME oil fields.
Maybe THIS is what 0bamao meant when he whispered to Medvedev to tell Vlad he would have "more flexiblity?"
Someone should ask him.
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a former Alaska commander for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, said he does not remember a case of Russian strategic bombers coming that close to the U.S. coast.
May I respectfully remind the General:
http://militarypictures.info/airplanes/bombers.jpg.html
". . . . . Moscow’s military annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea."
TOTAL propaganda bullshit. Russia DID NOT militarily annex Crimea. There was a referendum by the people of Crimea to secede from the neo-facist putsch in Kiev and over 80% of the people chose to re-unite with Russia - which Crimea was historically a part of for hundreds of years until Khrushchev decide to "give" Crimea to Ukraine back in the days of the Soviet Union.
This one sentence puts the validity of the entire article in doubt.
Not many here remember Able Archer 83'.
We almost started WWIII without even trying. (or perhaps trying a little bit too hard)
So? Do your homework. Under UN law the Russians, the Chinese, Al Queda and everyone else who wants to game us has been given the authorization to overfly the US and dump whatever they want. Also the USA is required to provide them the state of the art technology to do it... queens