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Pentagon Confirms Russia Violated US Airspace 16 Times In Last 10 Days, "Not Just Training Missions"
Having admitted that a Russian fighter jet flew within 30 meters of a US spy plane (on the border of Russia) a month ago, The Washington Times reports defense officials confirming Russian strategic nuclear bombers conducted at least 16 incursions into northwestern U.S. air defense identification zones over the past 10 days - an unusually sharp increase in aerial penetrations.
The numerous flight encounters by Tu-95 Russian Bear H bombers prompted the scrambling of U.S. jet fighters on several occasions, and come amid heightened U.S.-Russia tensions over Ukraine.
Also, during one bomber incursion near Alaska, a Russian intelligence-gathering jet was detected along with the bombers.
“Over the past week, NORAD has visually identified Russian aircraft operating in and around the U.S. air defense identification zones,” said Maj. Beth Smith, spokeswoman for U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
Smith called the Russian flights “a spike in activity” but sought to play down the threat, stating the flights were assessed as routine training missions and exercises.
The bomber flights took place mainly along the Alaskan air defense identification zone that covers the Aleutian Islands and the continental part of the state, and one incursion involved entry into Canada’s air defense zone, Smith said.
The Russian strategic aircraft included a mix of Tu-95 Bear H heavy bombers and Tu-142 Bear F maritime reconnaissance aircraft, she said, adding that one IL-20 intelligence collection aircraft was detected during the flight incursions over the past week to 10 days.
Perhaps most worrying...
A defense official disagreed with the spokeswoman on the increased bomber forays. Russian strategic nuclear forces appear to be “trying to test our air defense reactions, or our command and control systems,” said an official familiar with reports of the incursions.
“These are not just training missions,” the official added.
“Additionally, we have seen significant Russian strategic aircraft deployments in the vicinity of places like Japan, Korea, and even our West Coast,” Haney said at a defense industry breakfast.
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Bullshit. First-order fear mongering bitch.
If they are not training missions what are they? We are not at war.
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You're definately not paying attention.
Poor Tom Clancy, he up-n-dies just before the big one he'd been having fantasies about his entire life.
Is it the same pentagon that provided us with "the undeniable evidence" of Iraqi WMD and the one that bombed itself with an airplane that had no wings, no engines and no one on board on 9/11?
Are we feeling the heat yet?
Aerial penatrations
I have never been able to get this suggestion to go anywhere.
It's important to practice for Armageddon.
Hysterical YELLOW JOURNALISM !!!
huh?
" in and around the U.S. air defense identification zones"
but according to US military officials,
"the flights were assessed as routine training missions and exercises" or not.
so, "in and around" ID zones thousands of miles from US border, "routine" or not,
and assuredly US/NATO does the same and more much closer to Russia's border.
"Violated US air space" ??
puh-leez
So facts are "Yellow Journalism"?
I guess if RT is your only news source.
taking a few selected "facts"
to sensationalize into a headline screaming falsely that
Russia "violated US air space"
is yellow journalism.
"an unusually sharp increase in aerial penetrations"
Make that "an unusually sharp anal penetration"
That's why we need Neocons back.
Bank Lobby is ruining USA with Obama by warring against Neocons
Bring Neocons back.
They never left...
True.
But Obama and bank lobby are trying to take their place
the neocons are the deep state.
So ultra liberal Obama is a "Neo-Con"???
Obama's not smart enough for that.
axelrod, sunstein, emmanuel - seems likea puppet of zionists/neocons to me.
Especially when you look at his appointments.
But sure - there's a lot of Goldman and CFR types in his admin. Par for the course, these days...
Who were the leading Bolsheviks? Termites almost to a man. The Termites lost Russia, they want it back, Putin is fending them off, but they have the US to use as a foil against Russia.
Do an airstrike on the Red Shield-built HQ they have in a small ME country, solve a lot of problems.
Used to be.
Now bank lobby is trying to displace them
I'm voting this up, he's right, they were hilarious !
Bring back Termite Trotskyists? I think not.
Damn..........and Slim Pickens is up on Boot Hill.
How do we get the Pentagon to stop violating our 'brainspace?'
I'm sure this is testing out how we react, how our systems operate, in case something bigger happens.. and something bigger WILL happen, and it will be on Putin's timetable, and Obama will be reacting and losing more chess pieces.
Oh it is. And the Russians have been doing it for a while, even before the Ukraine crisis.
See below
Haven't heard from mccain for a while, I wonder what he would do in this situation? Always thought he looked a little like slim pickens.
If McCain was Prez we would already be fighting the Russians in Syria and Ukraine. That jack-ass-hole LOVES WAR, no matter what he tells you.
They're flying there to uphold peace and tranquility...
So the U.S can violate any air space or anywhere really (along with spyng on everyone in the world) and it is OK but Russia does it and it isn't. Good logic and it really makes me put value in anyone who thinks that way.
WHo's warmongering again?
As I've previously posted, these flights have been going on for months.
Last May
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/06/world/asia/russian-bomber-flights/
Off the California coast
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-bombers-fly-within-50-mi...
Before the Ukraine crisis bombers flew to Guama:
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/15/16978049-russian-nuclear-b...
Russian militism has been going on for a while. Let's not forget the invasion of Georgia several years ago.
Only after the US tried to do a Nuland in Georgia.
How many times did the US violate Russian airspace? Because, you see, the US fighter mentioned at top was no where near the United States, and deliberately flying right near Russian airspace.
it happened just a couple days ago as well - again, the US fighters being no where near American airspace...
http://theaviationist.com/2014/08/01/rc-135-violated-swedish-airspace/
Of course, when the US actively tries to destabilize a country on the other side of the planet, and is caught on tape hand-picking the next pro-IMF bankster leader, that's just being pro-democracy, but when Russia provides unnamed, unproven support to ethnic Russians, in what used to be Russia proper, from the US puppet regime's military assaults... that's unconscionable medding.
Got it.
So,
Your story is that the US has no business sending a spy plane over the Baltic Sea.
But that Russia is justified sending Nuclear bombers to CALIFORNIA??????
If this is your idea of fairness, I don't think I can live with that.
Either both are justified, or neither.
What business do you think the US has over the Baltic, exactly?
Seriously...
Pipeline business?
"Over the Baltic Sea"
Or over St Petersburg?
Were you there, flying high alongside the US spy plane as it took pictures of herring in the Gulf of Finland?
Interesting editing job on this article.
Here is the full article:
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-strategic-bombers-conduc...
Tyler omitted a few key phrases like this one:
"The bomber flights took place mainly along the Alaskan air defense identification zone that covers the Aleutian Islands and the continental part of the state, and one incursion involved entry into Canada’s air defense zone, Smith said."
And this one:
"The Washington Free Beacon first reported that two Bear bombers flew within 50 miles of the California coast on June 9—the closest the Russians have flown their nuclear-capable bombers since the days of the Cold War. A U.S. F-15 intercepted the bombers"
At TU-95 speeds 50 miles is less than 15 minutes flight time.
And this littlle jewel:
"U.S. officials confirmed that an RC-135 Rivet Joint electronic intelligence gathering aircraft was forced into violating Swedish airspace by a Russian fighter jet July 18. The U.S. jet was seeking to evade the Russian interceptor jet at the time.
That encounter took place a day after Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down by a missile over eastern Ukraine."
SWEDEN. NOT JAPAN. NOT SURROUNDED BY RUSSIA ON THREE SIDES.
Why the creative editing?
That's some scary stuff. Do you need mommy to hold you?
Meanwhile, we have a guided missile cruiser in the Black Sea for the next 20 days.
What do you think would happen if Vlad parked a similar ship in Havana?
Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury.
Geography 101 tells us that Kalingrad is a Russian enclave, lodged between Poland and Lithuania.
The airspace there is Russian.
Ooh, I guess the Russians want to keep some peace here, too.
Putin is just doing that to fuck with what remains of our "real" military, chill guys, there's nothing in the northwest to nuke, and Putin sure as hell aint gonna nuke Obama.
If a monkey were in charge of Russia would we remove it? Obama is just the type of stooge that Soviets put in charge of satellite states, Obama was "bought in" on subprime loan fraud financed by EU banks.
Obama aint worried, he's doing bongloads.
If Putin really wanted to act harsh he'd impose carbon export taxes in collusion with OPEC, push the "green agenda" down the West's throat while he plays with our ears.
Hey, what about the US violating soverign states air space ALL THE FARKING TIME???
Most hamburger face stuffin', poverty consciousness Ameri-can'ts won't ever consider...
Fear fear fear! Love the smell of proooopooganda served with spine tingling action.
The magicians hand strikes again. 'Look over here populace.'
...and all the public goes, "Bad Russia, Semper Fi. ooo-RA RA, feed me more tasty lies".
What's the chance they're forgetting to check if their wallet is still there?
What's the probability they've taken the opportunity to talk some sense into their draft age sons?
Which country, Russia or USA, is run by politicians owned by a lobby in tel aviv? Should the US military be discussing a way to coordinate with Russian leaders to root out the parasites? We can hope for that. How many Americans trust Putin more than Obummer?
for a start, Russia did not bomb Iraq, Afgan, Eygpt, Ukraine etc back to the stone age and install puppet govenments to steal all the resources. How that compared with Clinton/Bush/Obozo(DC) with the Kremlin. I'll take the Kremlin any day of the week for political stability.
Other than routine spying everyone does, Russia as far as I know was happy making money until molested and disturbed by International Termites.
Your MOFO drones are everywhere and you are in Pakistan all the time. Did you ask for their permission? NO....When they complain, you just black-mail them or tell them its all about the terrorists. Well, I got news for you. The Russian's violated US air space becoz they got intel that there are terrorists sitting in Washington DC and taking the white house as hostage.
Then they are ours to deal with.
As you said, if it is fair game then it is fair game.
Maybe, as you said, it should work both ways?
The dudes jumping out of them with suitcase nukes went undetected.
Re-read that first sentence. Who's provoking who?
I love the propaganda...in any event, all these countries want to win the propaganda war preceding any real war
The headline is wrong - "identification zones" are not US airspace. They're international airspace.
“Over the past week, NORAD has visually identified Russian aircraft operating in and around the U.S. air defense identification zones,” said Maj. Beth Smith, spokeswoman for U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
Jingoism is IN!
Hot Money: Pop Goes the Weasel
Civil marriage entitlement at the end of the FILO bankruptcy queue is the carrot, and Family Law inversion is the stick. The rest of the law is stacked by doctrine into event horizons, in between. You are the switch, the bank replaces with hot money.
In Silicon Valley, the refrain is that you are either a programmer or a slave to the machines they program. And no matter what pond you visit, the majority thinks the same way, whether it’s lobbyists, doctors or elevator mechanics.
Longevity, still low relative to preceding cultures, is not a result of healthcare. It’s the result of the baby boomer’s parents putting their children first. Look at the data. Of course the majority of boomers are sucking the system dry, as all majorities are inclined to do, because watching, the derivative, is not the same as doing, the integral.
The global dc technology economy is awash in fixed costs on dead inventory, with associated spiraling finance costs, because the majority is always in the wrong place, at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing, chasing hot money at the cost of purchasing power, starving new growth to pay for self-inflicted disability.
The insurers cannot meet their obligations, because they spent the money scaling fixed costs, to keep the ponzi going. They are not laying railroad ties for a slow train going the wrong direction by accident. Actuarial science is no more a science than Amazon is a bookseller, and Russia is already full up with loss-leaders.
Middle class divorce and legacy corporate reorganization are all about switching partners, climbing the Titanic as it sinks, always at war. A contract made to be broken at the first strong wind, taking out the rungs from below, is not the basis of civilization, any more than its technology is the answer the resulting war.
Just yesterday, programming was something more than a trade becoming a commodity, like its predecessors. The corporations ‘retrain’ the newly minted graduates, replacing the last row of teeth, in a few weeks, to subscribe to the latest corporatology, but only after the graduates have shown that they are stupid enough to bid for ponzi debt with their time. Newly minted doctors are no different.
With a great deal of work, which the majority avoids assiduously, you can help an individual widen perspective, to grow the switch, but no amount of work will change the buffer of peer pressure from within the system. What do you do with that diagnostic program when the car won’t start and memory is full of derivative errors?
The problemsolution of a closed system within an open system is that all the devices are connected, despite appearing to be isolated into circuits. An error in one cycle creates apparently unrelated errors in subsequent cycles, until the entire system is infected, chasing its own tail.
Never follow monkeys into a building without a meter, never show the ape you can use a meter, and pull home runs to the controller every chance you get. You want to be able to bypass all the controls and isolate the sub-circuits. Begin at the beginning, the return line to the motor.
If you widen your perspective to improve discernment, you will always find yourself at the end and the beginning, leaving the empire befuddled, because it can’t know what you are going to do next. The future of a closed system is brightest before it blows. You are looking for the darkest corner, just before daylight.
It’s not about good and evil, or any such other short cut, with which the majority creates the bipolar, divide and conquer world, it chooses to see, subjecting itself to predation by sociopaths, from both sides. Behavior occurs in system distributions, in many dimensions.
Putin is simply getting out, before his artificial borders implode, while other borders are imploding. The Bay Area is not a strategic asset; it’s a psychological asset only to those fully invested in dc control extortion, which means that a lot of really stupid decisions are being made just now.
Hot money is a problemsolution. If you haven’t noticed, the derivative world map is being redrawn again, by derivative dc control technology, keeping automatons safely spying on each other with law enforcement, which doesn’t work because all hot money can do is travel back and forth like a pendulum, more efficiently blowing bubbles in balance sheets. The future, traveling through spacefolds, requires something a bit more thoughtful.
Humans have the same problems as other species; the majority fails to save current surplus to cover future deficit. Hot money employs the mythology of debt as income, chasing debt as asset, other people’s future surplus, becoming increasingly myopic in the process, leaving itself no other outcome but war, with itself.
Let the politicians build their global city on a foundation of sand, drilling sand mines beneath them, while you focus on your purely community interests, beyond the grasp of the FILO bankruptcy queue.
Can you explain that again?
WTF? Who let the dogs out?
Um, hello, ur dumb. The U.S. air defense identification zone is not US Airspace, it's international territory and anyone can fly there. International waters begin at 12 nautical miles off the coast. Dumb da-dumb dumb, time to go back to journalist school.
WIKIPEDIA:
The United States does not recognize the right of a coastal nation to apply its ADIZ procedures to foreign aircraft not intending to enter national airspace nor does the United States apply its ADIZ procedures to foreign aircraft not intending to enter U.S. airspace. Accordingly, U.S. military aircraft not intending to enter national airspace should not identify themselves or otherwise comply with ADIZ procedures established by other nations, unless the United States has specifically agreed to do so.
A U.S. Air Force university dissertation states:
These regulations do not pertain to military aircraft, but to enter US airspace, without inducing the scrambling of fighter interceptors, these rules must be complied with and followed. The US does not claim sovereignty over these zones per se, but does closely monitor and request information of all objects entering the zone.[5]
The Pentagon lost all credibility when it allowed 4 planes to meander around an hour and a half unmolested on 9/11.
Having over 700 military bases around the world doesn't violate anything!
The world will know they are not serious until they target 85 scumbags and a couple a queens. Otherwise its a setup to kill Americans by the NWO.
I'm finding myself thinking - how would John McCain/Sarah Palin be handling this? I'll bet Sarah was locked on to those Russkie bombers from her kitchen window. They probably spotted her and her Moose gun and turned tail for home.
US Air Identification Zones cover the entire planet - except for any place that Malaysian Airlines planes are.
"unusually sharp increase in aerial penetrations."
Dear Russian, Ukranian, Canadian and fellow US citizens...not you fucking elite, but citizens...there will be "penetrations" for us all once this gets outta hand.
Penetrated 16 times in 10 days. Now the airspace knows how the rest of us feel.
That's a lot of times in a very short period of time.
Putin certainly must have been scared off by US response, eh?
Maybe Obama didn't know about this until it appeared in the news, or he certainly would have solved the issue long time ago.
I've been short now for a few weeks. Just sitting back watching all the prop'd up dominoes slowly tumble down...
Right - the USSA spy plane was "along the border".... like there is a lane striping up in the moronosphere
Those Bears carry nuclear-armed cruise missiles.
You will shoot it down maybe after it has unleashed its payload from a stand-off distance.
And how the fuck would they know that when the only thing they have are black glasses and 3 year old google maps to use as evidence
Washington Times and bill gertz... get a life.
I guess the story would not have as much punch if it was known how many of these same incidents have happened in the last ten years.
Bear has been around and in and out of production since the mid '50s. We've got the the radar stations covering everything along the West Coast and over Canada with DEW and Pinetree Lines and hndreds of interceptors, F-89, F-101, F-86D, F-94C, plus ARADOM Nike Sites. Ooops! Me bad. All that stuff is long gone but we do have a handful of F-15 and 16's and can temporarily mount air to air missles on the Congressonal fleet of private Government Air Force jets based in D.C.
Lots of good stuff on this site, but the "journalism" is an unnecessary shade of yellow.
During the Cold War...F15's out of Iceland would intercept the bears...
"Another hilarious moment dates back to the time when one F-15 pilot showed off a Playboy nude centerfold across the expansive side of the Eagle’s canopy, for the Soviet aviators entertainment. Once they saw it, they responded by running the Bear air to air refueling probe (which was encased in a long cylindrical tube extending above the nose and would be run out to clog up into the drogue basket) in and out, and in and out of its protective sleeve."
Good stuff
http://theaviationist.com/2014/08/04/russian-bears-at-giuk-gap/
No worry, I heard Obama has a hashtag for that.
I swear to god... I think I saw Slim Pickens in the cockpit!
EDIT: Comment withdrawn. Too many people here who have seen "How I learned..." and beat me with a better punch!
But I think it may be time for a viewing of that great old Peter Sellers flick. Here is a quick anecdote for lovers of the film who have not seen the accompanying commentary on newer DVDs...
The reason Peter Sellers was in a wheelchair as Dr. Strangelove was not planned. He got into a fight with director Stanley Kubrick while they were in the mock up plane and Peter fell out of the bomb bay doors onto the ground!
Psst Vlad little secret NORAD stands down on Boston and NYC flight routes... http://highrisesafetynyc.org/about/
Okee USA goes to war
& confiscates all the Gold of all countries at Fed. Reserve Bank NY
& all other properties of other nations.
Reason : Force Majeure
"Pentagon confirms ..."
Once I read those two words the substance of the report no longer had any truth or validity.