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US F-22 Jets Intercept 6 Russian Warplanes 55 Miles Off The Alaskan Coast
Yesterday it was the UK which scrambled a squadron of Typhoon jets when two Russian Tu-95 "Bear" Bombers had gotten too close to its shores, even if still located in international space. Then overnight, none other than the US did the same when two F-22 fighter jets intercepted six Russian military airplanes just over 50 miles away from the western coast of Alaska, military officials said Friday, among which identified as two IL-78 refueling tankers, two Mig-31 fighter jets and the same two "Bear" long-range bombers, which are known to carry tactical ICBMs with nuclear warheads among their arsenal.
According to the AP, they looped south and returned to their base in Russia after the U.S. jets were scrambled.
Lt. Col. Michael Jazdyk, a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, said the U.S. jets intercepted the planes about 55 nautical miles from the Alaskan coast at about 7 p.m. Pacific time Wednesday.
Additionally, at about 1:30 a.m. Thursday, two Canadian CF-18 fighter jets intercepted two of the long-range bombers about 40 nautical miles off the Canadian coastline in the Beaufort Sea.
In both cases, the Russian planes entered the Air Defense Identification Zone, which extends about 200 miles from the coastline. They did not enter sovereign airspace of the United States or Canada.
Jazdyk said the fighter jets were scrambled “basically to let those aircraft know that we see them, and in case of a threat, to let them know we are there to protect our sovereign airspace.”
In the past five years, jets under NORAD’s command have intercepted more than 50 Russian bombers approaching North American airspace.
So just more training missions by Russia, or is the Kremlin testing out US and UK response capabilities?
And if the US scrambles jets whenever Russian jets fly over international airspace, some 200 miles away from the coastline, how should Russia feel when US, pardon NATO, military jets do combat missions some 20 miles away from the Russian border from the Baltics all the way to Ukraine? Or perhaps the answer is irrelevant, because when it comes to "feeling threatened", only one side of the rational response story matters.
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It's on like Donkey Kong.
An American Navy Pilot, an American Air Force Pilot (dressed in a Russian Air Force Pilot's uniform), and Dick Cheney walk into a Washington DC Bar...
Listen. You are probably right. Don't poke the bear America you will be sorry.
Good!
How many countries did the US invade during the Cold War?
More "he said, she said" war propaganda - in international airspace, yet. I don't believe any it coming from .gov because they are liars.
Ehh are we sure we were not in their airspace, I think Russia at some places is less than 55 miles from Russia. After all Palin could see it from her porch hahaha.
But seriously these USA Mavericks have a habit of intercepting planes in another country's airspace for the past few decades ;)
They did not enter sovereign airspace of the United States or Canada.
Yawn, another non event designed to scare the sheeple with the Russian bogeyman. Just another disgusting example of the servile nature of the USSA mainstream whore media. Meanwhile, in the Ukraine, the junta breaks the ceasefire by hitting Donetsk with 2 ballistic missiles, blowing up a chemical plant. But you never hear a word of this on CNN.
Putin knows the US and any western country are too toothless to respond in any meaningful way today. Nothing but words, hash tags and non-boots on the ground in defenseless countries to make us feel big.
50 miles away from Alaska? ....Isn't that Russia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diomede_Islands
You can walk between Russia and the US on a cool enough day
Every time someone makes fun of Palin for this - they show their ignorance
All it takes to outfox the US air defenses is to carry box cutters onboard the Russian planes.
/s
And how many NATO bombers and fighters has Russia intercepted 50 miles off the Russian coast in the last year ?
A far better question is how many subs has each side chased out of each other ports since the Cold War "ended"? Back to 5 minutes to midnight on the doomsday clock again...
This is becoming an all too common occurance.Russian bombers keep probing our defences.
http://www.planbeconomics.com/2014/09/russian-bombers-probe-us-to-practi...
Oh dear...
all credibility of an article flies out the window when they say stupid things like:
... tactical Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles...
Right....
I bet they also carry .30 caliber high capacity clips too.. on guns that have a shoulder thingy that goes up!
They carry cruise-type missiles don't they?
Yeah - it's a rich, creamy stupidity that makes those downvotes so delicious
Ahh, ICBM's don't get lauched from aircraft....period
It's gotta be less than 50 miles, since Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house (in Wasilla).
Not that it matters one iota....But Sarah Palin didn't say she could see Russia from her house....
It was only said in a SNL skit by Tina Fey pretending to be Palin....but since more people believe SNL than the truth nothing really matters
Not what she said -
http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/russia.asp
And it does matter - because repeating these stories incorrectly as fact in an attempt to discredit someone only discredits the liar.
And it is lying when you know the truth - you are no longer just ignorantly misinformed.
politics aside, when peope parrot an untruth such as this, freedom and liberty are harmed by lies. only truth leads to liberty.
-edit-
So a "Sovereighn" nation has a right to defend it's airspace? But, but, our dear leader tells Syria, Don't shoot at our planes! What's that word I am looking for...........
Strange how it is very, very bad of the Chinese to declare an Air Identification Zone over the East China Sea (which the USSA promptly violates with flights of B-52s) and it is very, very bad, of the Russians to enter a USSA Air Identification Zone north of Alaska.
Ao when we want to intrude on another countries airspace that is "Defending our right to free navigation," but when another country does exaclty the same thing that is deemed to be a threatening and hostile act?
This foreign relations stuff is beyond my limited mental capacity. Time to go back to the Bar-B-Qued Fruit Bat.
The polite word is "hypocrit", the less polite is "wanker".
let's re-write the headline
US warplanes intercept Russian planes training in international airspace.
And no, they don't carry ICBM, maybe curise missiles but not Inter Continental missiles.
Of course it's propaganda, no need to report a non-event otherwise but of course the people have to be terrorised to go along with warmongering and spending.
As Hillary would say "What difference does it make?"
Yawn... Let me know when they stop doing this with Bears and start using Blackjacks, until then it's just foreplay. Where are the subs is the bigger question and do they have any missiles in the hold of any chartered Panamian freighters? I'll be more concerned when they decide to stop these testing maneuvers. it might mean they are readying for a stealth first strike.
it is mobile missiles and launchers in the top layer of cargotainers on transports motoring into the Gulf and east coast ports that has NORAD kinda jumpy...the west coast continues to be a global haven per the standard Nightmare on E.m.p. Street.
Nuclear missiles can fit on the belly of a relatively small jet fighter. Case in point
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rgCitybF6qk/T-Uf1mZ1PUI/AAAAAAAAMOM/zZR3eE8KXn...(ASMP-A)++French+air-launched+nuclear+missile+Dassault+Rafale+French+twin-engine+delta-wing+fighter+aircraft+(1).jpg
Supersonic cruise missiles are a core part of Russian military strategy. They could launch before they were even in the ADIZ. So could russian subs, for that matter.
Safe to say this is a pure propaganda ploy (on both sides.) The rooskies used to do this all the time in the 70s/80s during the cold war.
International airspace as in 99 air balloons.
My airspace as I`am a remotely based hillbilly got violated
quite a few times with new fuel made available by war exercises.
I`m so scared.
A wet summer makes my veggies rot, made up for by plenty of free mushrooms.
Free scare ? Keeps me and my dogs contemplating about fleas and zero rate interest rates.
Quite possibly a 50% chance it never happened.
However, if I was a Russky, I would be scoping out anything I could right now, since they might have to blow it up after ZATO attacks them.
They, unlike me, are eternally conditioned to prepare for a long hard winter. Always some sort of winter , hard diet
of stored white cabbage , soft diet of fresh white cabbage
or the other way round. They hate summer swamp`s mosquitos,
invaders and fake smiles, like smiling for no reason except
for vodka jokes.
I`d hate to be a Russian as a well fitting refugee.
Would score well and long to be a member of the Western Freecorps.
Not that many 'direct invasions' - but the U.S. has well made up for that 'deficit' since then. Perhaps however, the better question might be: How many innocent lives have been lost - you know, 'collateral damage' & so forth - up to and including countless lives lost that U.S. citizens will Never even know about as a result of 'fighting terrorism'...? Or, the ongoing carnage as a direct result of U.S. 'nation building' since - oh I don't know, perhaps the 1980's in more countries that you can count...?
.
If you're keeping count, here is a good reference from which to begin. I'm sure the actual count is higher and continues to grow.
http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-government...
There has been 236 conflics since WW2 and America has started 201 of them . America don't you want somebody to bomb, don't you need somebody to bomb, wont you love somebody to bomb.
Each morning I get up, I kill a little,
Remote firing the drone from my seat
(Take a look at the screen)
Take a look in the monitor and laugh
USA what you're doing to me
I have spent all my years in believing you
But I just can't get no relief, Lord!
Somebody
(Somebody)
Oooh somebody
(Somebody)
Can anybody find me
Somebody to bomb?
With apologies to Freddie Mercury.
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb... Bomb, Bomb, Iran,
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Bomb-a
Bomb Iraaan...
That is the plaaan...
Were gonna rocket 'em and roll 'em,
rock 'em and a reel 'em,
Bomb Iran!
(apologies to the Beach Boys and Grampa John "shit-stain" McCain)
On which continent?
Putin knows The One has no balls to resist. Putin wants the rest of the world to know, that he knows that. Me,......I would move the Naval fleet, based in Qutar, to the Black Sea. Do you think this gutless position from The One, is, "tell Vlad I'll have more flexibility after the election"?
Now read The Treaty of Montreux
Don't. Poke. The. Bear.
Did it really happen?
And, was it the exact same two bombers? Or did these two have "CNN" painted on their tails? The ones near Scotland had "BBC" painted on their tails. Go look at the pictures.
another warm up event for the coming Red-Blue Olympics -brought to you by your faaavorite! central bankerz!!
Inquiring minds would love to see the radar data from the UK and Alaska; at best this is a "non-event made for weekend media"
So just more training missions by Russia, or is the Kremlin testing out US and UK response capabilities?
That has to be it... invasion imminent..
In international airspace deemed "Defendable" by the US
Happens dozens of times a yr.
Stop with this fucking bullshit
But....
"I can see Russia from my house!" — Tina Fey
We owe Tina fey a lot. Without her mockery, McCain might be president.
Not Tina Fey, but funny as hell...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QevraCQUc
Down vote all you want fellas. Facts are facts: Barry is the lesser of two evils. That is a scary, fucked up, hard ass fact.
.
That's not scary. That's fucking scary. Those capable of escaping the self-reinforcing, multimedia-generated, cognitive short-circuit of party politics propaganda, even momentarily, and can comprehend that the simple act of comparing two villains doesn't endow one of them with non-villain status, will agree.
Wanna know something else? Remember how, during the Cheney regime, you thought there couldn't be a president worse than George W. Bush, until Obama proved you wrong? Well, if you now believe that there couldn't possibly be a president worse than Obama, prepare to be proven wrong again.
From here on out, every current US president will be worse than the preceding one. That's not just fucking scary, it's hard ass fucked up shitgum scary.
Yeah true Theta, but it's not all B.S. The 'psy-op' is ON - to condition the American citizenry that Russia has now become an official 'enemy' of the U.S. In order to accomplish this, 'routine' flights in or in U.S. areas of interest must be made to look like 'acts of aggression' in order to condition Mr. & Mrs. USA!!--USA!!--USA!! that any upcoming 'sacrifices' that have to be made (raising your taxes, rationing goods, limitation of liberties, etc.), are reasonable - nay, the 'Patriotic' thing to do...
haha, the vaunted USAF did not even knock out the zionists flying those planes on 9/11.
Russky planes can shoot back.
Yeah. There was a good reason that those 'hijacked' planes weren't shot down.
This is how the Ruskies get a good look at our F-22's.
Now they can tell what their actual radar signatures are, and they can modify their systems accordingly.
Those weren't bombers, they were spy planes disguised as bombers.
Wow! Really!!??
Those sneaky Ruskies are at it again and after out precious bodily fluids. damn it!!
P O E
Of course, maybe we intercepted with special "non-stealth" F-22s designed to have a larger radar signature just to fuck with them.
(You never know)
Or MAYBE we didn't use F-22's at all, just to make them THINK they are that invisible.
This is their main opponent if it comes to war....if they could take out our limited number of F22s, then they would have a shot at making us turn tail and run....well, this, along with their AC Carrier killers....
F-15's can still dust anything they can fly.
I guess Palin looked out her windows, then called the USAF.
We know the NSA didn't call. They were too busy watching ISIS.
/s
Moar like they were too busy watching PORN!
Nah HB. They have direct access to the awesome voyeur goods. I bet there are giant flat screens in Ft. Meade that have a live feed of every Jennifer Lawrence and Olsen twin selfie taken on a phone.
Impeach Obama or die M'Fers.
Like there isn't just another plastic plugin puppet waiting for their chance to shine. Hillary or worse awaits the sheeple. Biden as a post impeachment short-term break from the current programming could be fun though...........
When you carry Kent or BrahMos or any other Mach3 seaskimming dart with a 3k+ mile range, why would you draw even near to a border? :grin:
The Ruski talks a big game, but we think he's short of know how
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxLe8MWdWe0
Fuck you Putin and Obama, Statist shitheels, both
From your posts VeggyDave I see the only statist shithead you like is Benny Nut'n'yahoo.
Actually, since there is an endless supply of anti Yid cunts like yourself, yah.
...has to be endless supply of gentiles like me since there is an endless supply of Shylocks like you.
The american military industrial complex probably had to pay putin at least a billion to get him to pull these little stunts.
Assuming it even happened. The source is liars.gov
Oh my its 5-6 feet tall Putin,
revealing his Napolean Complex,
as Conservative Racist Homophobe personality! Duh!
Russian Food Inflation at 8% in a month!
Putin Arrested Oil Billionaire!
Republican't,
I am so proud that you are an American. Haven't I seen you on "People of Walmart"?
Yeah, Kens ass crack flashing when bending over is emblematic of dumbed down America. This is how he greets his slave masters.
Ken, at least give us some good propaganda points, instead of spewing utter nonsense. Russia has plenty of food, with neigbors lining up to sell it, while EU produce rots in warehouse.
Who was Napolean? I've never heard of him.
Hey! Does Hanoi John McPain have an account here?
Oh look it's Republicunt
I for one would love to see some of our homegrown Banksters and Oligarchs arrested and put away.
just saying...
Quit being pussies and just fucking shoot them down.
If that happens you better quickly run to your gf or wife's pussy and fuck it one last time cause that is the last pussy you or any one else will ever see on this Earth, or dick if you swing that way.
Fucking coward.
Guess I am not as brave as you are, taking it from behind then swallowing it down.
Dirty Sanchez?
It is so nice to know America is protecting the homeland from those fanatical, ideologically driven Russians and arming those freedom loving Syrian Rebels. Let freedom ring, just like in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya....
Somewhere Sarah Palin just creamed her panties...
Too bad no selfie leaked from that...
They hate us for our iPhone6s....
I heard you can recharge them in a microwave oven.
Of course, that is insane.
I wonder if some idiot did it?
I hate Apple shit anyway.
Want to destroy a phone with style? How about hitting it on the thin edge from 1125 yards? Twice.
http://youtu.be/QVLmf_CBHKM
Made in China
I'm at the point where I think this is all a horseshit display to keep our eyes off the ball and foment more Pleb control.
This has been going on every day since the Rusians first had strategic bomber capability. What's the big deal?
@IridiumRebel, always a fan of your sober postings.
Me a ZH addict has a very personal question on you.
ZH made my original addiction into a disease.
Can`t possibly stay away from the sobriety that ZH consumption delivers to my mind. No need to stray from ZH
my initial condition stays the same, just no venue but I always needed to stay charged up or the lack thereof.
Cut beer to Zero for two month and lost 15 pounds.
Red wine too to go from 01/10/14 onwards. Will I survive ?
Can`t join any local AA or I would loose all special permits and local standing. Self purge is what is on my mind.
No friends on this soul question, anonymous advice from peer
ZH attitude wanted.
Can you join an AA outside of the immediate area? It is supposed to be anonymous even if you were spotted. There are hotlines as well and some online stuff like Alcoholics in Action that have meetings, but in person is best. I have a former sponsee doing "The Midwest Center" that seems to help him. White knuckles lead to further pain so some outside help is necessary. AA was my way, but there are other ways. That's my suggestion and good luck. You can become my contact here as well and we can "get stuff off the chest" via the anonymity of ZH.
Thanks mate . I`ll try the impossible and pull myself like the Lying Baron out of the swamp on my own chop.
Great many thanks anyway, your story inspired me to identify
my problem. And me staying on for good without having to fill myself up with alcohol to contemplate the whole worlds problems.
Remember lots of your remarkable comments, like the one you were supposed to be depressed and called the helpline and got to a call center in Pakistan... can`t stop laughing to this day. Your helping hand is very much appreciated,
will get back on you upon progress or not.
I don't think there is an ICBM that lauches from an airborne platform. I think you must mean the Tu-95s (I refuse to call them by the moniker that properly belongs to Coach Bryant) are armed with nuclear warhead-armed cruise missiles.
Listen. Tu-142 Bear F/J, maritime recon and ASW. But it's fun to see all the zeros get all lathered up over sum simple "FAIR PLAY" recon.
So many 'merican armchair generals on the hedge.
I agree with your point.
those planes carry cruise missiles, I belive 16 in total (12 inside, 4 outside), CM with a range of 3000 km, having strategic Nuclear War Head as a payload.
The missiles are probably ment to be cruise missiles.
Yes, but since the Bears have a long range, you could say the cruise missiles are "intercontinental."
Looks like a little pay back, we toy with them, then they toy with us. In reality America has few military options in Russia's backyard unless it has the backing of a full and enthusiastic NATO and that is very unlikely. Europe has reason to be unexcited about a possible long and expensive conflict. While still trying to recover from a recession Europe would face fuel shortages and a massive spike in the price of natural gas.
Putin a great deal of leverage. Don't hold your breath for Putin to back-off or back-down, he has put down his marker and is now playing both Obama and Kerry for fools. If things really heat up the Russians will not rollover as other armies have when America approaches. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/07/putin-holds-all-cards.html
Hey Bruce, I was just wondering if you track your own billboard postings with your other account so you can give your advertisements an instant Green Arrow?
Lay of Bruce, he makes good insightful posts and he does his best to inform. Last time I checked its not illegal to blog.
ExxonMobil ‘winding down’ Arctic well, complying with US, EU sanctions on Russia
http://www.ogj.com/articles/2014/09/exxonmobil-winding-down-arctic-well-...
ExxonMobil Corp. released a statement that the company is complying with all US sanctions on Russia after news reports that the operator had halted operations on its first arctic exploration well—University-1—in Russia’s Kara Sea.
By halting the well, the analysts noted, “it appears that Exxon was unable to find a creative ‘workaround’ to last week’s tightened US and [European Union] sanctions on technology transfer to Russia.”
in its statement, the supermajor said, “The US Treasury Department, recognizing the complexity of the University-1 well and the sensitive Kara Sea arctic environment, has granted a license to ExxonMobil and other US contractors and persons involved to enable the safe and responsible winding down of operations related to this exploration well.”
The Chinese dynamo will step in. Someone mentioned that the CHinese have all the technology from an acquisition of a Canadian oil firm, forgot the name. Another case of the USA shooting itself in the left and right foot.
"Xi? I got rid of Exxon."
"Thanks, Agent Haffblack. You get another gold panda in the diplomatic pouch next week."
"Cool!!"
The Chinese have all the most advanced technology from 15 years ago.
Funny. In the network transport world Huawei has made the leap from Cisco knock off to world class innovator in a really short period of time.
American enterprise business are still biased against buying Chinese but they won't be able to ignore it much longer. The carriers are not ignoring it. You see Huawei optical transport gear everywhere.
I'm old enough to remember when all Japanese product was worse than shit.
I was among the engineers laughing at it back then.
You couldn't pay people to buy Japanese back then.
The Chinese are catching up fast on the Japanese and will surpass them in quality.
Just a matter of time..
The Koreans likely passed the Japanese several years ago... even in Robotics which I always thought was their ace in the hole.
Sad to see the Japanese fall so far, so fast. Not surpirsing though, the Japanese are a race of slaves controlled by their Samurai classes who prefer any status quo that leaves them on top. Unfortunately, Abenomics just maintains the status quo in a world where standing still is no better than drowning...
I`am young enough when thought at school that the Japanese
would have as surpassed us any day. Learned conversational Japanese to no avail. Japanese products were considered
cheap imitations, which they turned out not to be.
Wow, that is a surprise.
Assuming it's true of course. I thought Exxon was too big to sanction.
Shell and Total: "Fuck sanctions, we have work to do."
http://en.ria.ru/business/20140919/193103698/Shell-Total-to-Continue-Wor...
I think they mean "reacharound".
do not worry my fallow ameriguns.
norad is on the case.
norad saved new york during 911.
helped get the dancing mossad crews and house of saudi jews home.
yes sir norad as shown during 911 knows the difference between flying out to sea and flying over washington and new york city.
norad full kosher certification yes sir
Listen. Those "DANCERS" made their way down to Texas:
Texas Biolab Loses Deadly Guanarito Virus
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/galveston-texas-biolab-loses-deadly-guanar...
Tony, you need a blog or at least a column here at ZH. No one is more creatively, honest and insightful. I always look forward to your narrative style. Cheers!
I don't get his point all the time, but he sure is entertaining reading.
Gosh, those F-22 are really flyin?
only those 2 F-22...
Or are they hologram projections lol. But really. I see 2 F22s one that has caught fire and the one closer to us that will soon catch fire.
CGI.
Bath House Barry cut off their fuel cardz.
The US cannot probably put up moar than 10 P51s.
Thats just it Ivan you won't see them until your sprouting your own wings. Don't believe everything you hear...
http://zbigniewmazurak.wordpress.com/2012/07/15/the-smears-about-the-f-22-are-false-heres-why/
I get the impression that those Russian fighters would have greased the F-22s. The F-35 is crap and Pierre Sprey (co designer of the F-16 and A-10) has said the F-22 is not much better.
The SR71 was supposedly retired due to the Mig 31.
http://theaviationist.com/2013/12/11/sr-71-vs-mig-31/
The Su35 will beat the F-22.
http://in.rbth.com/blogs/2013/06/26/scatter_its_the_super_flanker_26501....
The F22 requires over 30 minutes of service for each hour of flight time.
Winning
Job creation program
"The F22 requires over 30 minutes of service for each hour of flight time."
It's a lot worse than that. The F22 requires something like 30 hours of maintenance for every hour in the sky, which means its natural habitat is the ground.
From the Washington Post and the NY Times themselves.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR200907...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/opinion/sunday/two-very-troubled-fight...
Correct. My bad.
This has been the US Air Force for decades. B-58 Hustler. Insanely expensive to fly and maintain. F-111 by McCain, LBJ and Obama's biggest supporter also big AIPAC member.
I had a prof who was an engineer for Lockheed. He said you needed an umbrella in the hangar of a C-5A because they spewed hydraulic fluid. B-1. Cool and fast plane but they rarely flyit or use it becauseo fthe cost and maint. I am sure B-2 is the same. Why did they destroy the YF-117? Arms limitations? More like stealth is a scam.
Sadly, nowadays it has less to do with the plane or pilot.
More to do with the missiles.
Actually, it is the avionics. The better a warplane's avionics (on-board electronics), the better its ability to survive and fight. And it has been that way for decades.
-- Paul D. Bain
PaulBain@PObox.com
Pierre Sprey has said that is false for fighters. He said for 50 years the fantasy of fire and forget missiles at a distance has been the dream of the Air Force. He said that is BS and they still have to dog fight. Sprey helped co-designed the F-16 and A-10. He said the F-35 is junk and the F-22 is only marginally better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDSiwqM2nw
If avionics is the case then now it is software. The Russians have very good software programmers. The F-35's software is still not done. I would guess MIC including Lockheed Martin uses a lot of Indian H1-Bs. They use Chinese parts or grey market Chinese parts.
They tried to ignore dogfighting when they built the F-4 Phantom. but had to rethink that, so they strapped a machine gun pod on for dogfighting.
I guess that worked until the airframe could be retrofitted with machine guns, but today most engagements happen over the horizon.
http://zbigniewmazurak.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/rebuttal-of-mark-thompsons-lies-about-f-22-fighters/
The Russian would be dead before he even knew he was in a fight.
Yes - but like an old XKE Jag, never far from the Garage...
Must not have been raining. Or is that the F35? So many problems between them it's hard to keep them straight.
Which reminds me: What if the real reason the Pentagon is fobbing arms and materiel to police departments is that our stuff is so crappy and expensive to operate and maintain that no one else wants our surplus anymore?
Gee, I bet a gold maple if the ZATO powers quit fucking around in Ukraine, the number of these incidents on Russia's part would drastically decrease to usual operational levels.
All these AF's do the same stuff, but it gets ramped up when someone gets too close for comfort and fucks around where they should not be, like 20 miles from Russian Airspace. Duh.
IMO, it is both a message and a training exercise.
I've wondered how long it will take Putin to send troops, warships and jets to Cuba for "Exercises", if for no other reason than to expose our hypocrisy.
Our MSM would be apoplectic. Flag waving dipsticks would ratchet up the drumbeats to deafening.
http://in.rbth.com/blogs/2013/04/08/why_australia_should_scratch_the_f-3...
MIC is making junk. I feel sorry for US Air Force pilots. Unless they are in an F-16, they are in trouble. The F-35 is junk and the F-22 is not much better.
Freddie, had a real live encounter with F16 on air traffic control and visual, they just warned me casually on the radio and took of almost vertically BEFORE air traffic control got me posted. Awesome, almost vertical strait into the sky, kissing me goodbye on my lowly chopper.
Birds of war are awesome, make no mistake. War is another issue. I`d win one on my own. Stupid warmongers could discuss details at leisure at Hades.
The F-15 gets the job done, particularly the two-seat E model.
War is a racket in which everybody loses but the F'ers who started it and financed it.
Honestly, isn't it time to start taking our neocons and chickenhawks out to the woodshed so they can run around and around feeling the breeze in their necks?
USA can defend ourselves quite fine. Past time to stop poking the bear, and sending our troops everywhere for every frigging thing, or nothing at all.
I'm pretty sure we can "defeat" Russia militarily, but at what cost and to what end? Time for a culling. Who will it be?
citizens on all sides of the wrold would agree that all of us are better off with the bankerz silenced, and the planes and ships grounded and docked.
that prospect gives the sociopsychopaths and psychosociopaths employed by the bankerz the heebyjeebies as for the first time ever THEY have to learn to deal with unemployment and most importantly, the loss of control.
It'll never come to that. If necessary, Russia will go tactical nuclear. Once those birds start to fly, all bets are off. Likely things go full throttle from there, and it's showtime for cockroaches.
S&P is up how many ticks?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hrIF68Dc68o
How can anyone take NORAD seriously.