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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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Have they done a joint video with NASA yet for their Muslim outreach programs? When they do, I will take NORAD as a serious agent for social justice. Until then, they are a bunch of radar wonks sitting in a mountain.
NORAD has not way to track Grandfather Christmas and the Ice Princess.
From Wiki:
The Bering Strait (Russian: ???????? ??????, Beringov proliv, Yupik: Imakpik[1][2]) is a strait 82 kilometres (51 mi; 44 nmi) wide at its narrowest point, between Cape Dezhnev, Chukchi Peninsula, Russia, the easternmost point (169° 43' W) of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, USA
So 55 miles could actually put these a/c in Russian terrirory.
So does the u.s ADIZ extend into Russian territory now?
Man, I am so sick and tired of war drum pounding amerikans. Stop threatening people and they just might leave you alone.
Lots of button pushing going on lately Homer.
The intensity is on the verge of being staggering.
Time to golfing yet?
Putin is just gathering SigInt and closure rate information. Russia military said they were going to acquire new targets so they need to know how best to knock out our current air defenses. The US responds to threats with sanctions while the Russians respond to threats by obtaining targeting coordinates.
Amazing that they sill need to get target coordinates. This is the 21st century, after all.
Hey Boris, What did comrade pilots say about seeing Palin nookie down below?
Sorry, only American comrades are believe Palin is good looking meme.
It's ok. Sarah's keeping an eye on them.
Tactical nuclear ICBMs.. That must be a misprint.
Tactical nuclear weapons are used in-theater, small nukes to destroy a regiment or a base. They would be fired from artillery pieces, or dropped by fighter bombers like the old F-4, (my airplanes).
ICBMs have thousands of mile range capabilities, they go sub-orbital and re-enter over the target.
They are strategic weapons. Captain Obvious to the rescue.. Thank you, thank you very much.
Listen. Sometimes I think Tyler wakes up on Saturday morning(USSA timezone) and because of previous evening activities, he just posts whatever Stratfor sent him overnight. Just to quiet the SpaceMonkey's who are scratching on the door.
Listen. Sometimes I think...
Now that is debatable.
If Russian Warplanes are testing USA defense perimeters that is a NEED TO KNOW.
I do not really care if you reside in India. A Nuclear Winter will doom the entire planet. India is not immune.
So start thinking for a change instead of being so damned bent on your hatred for this particular Nation-State. Emotions kill rational thought.
Sometimes you think? Yeah???
You feel. You do not think..
Listen.
YES SIR GENERAL TOM SIR! (salutes) Oh, btw General. The nucular bombers in question were "MISIDENTIFIED" or purposely falsified as nuke bombers.
The actual plane is a recon plane that specializes in communicating with subs that are deep under the ice, IN RUSSIAN TERRITORY! SIR!
Tu-142's, the cousin of Tu-95's.
You best be digging your bunker a little deeper, Douchenozzle. Maybe you and your bunkermates can start a USA, USA, USA chant.
You actually beleive this was the Bear testing American air defense?
Go play with some glycerine. The lead you previously handled has already warped your feeble brain.
Looking like it's almost time for a false flag attack...
http://olduvai.ca
55 miles off the Alaskan coast
across the Bering Straits
is inside Russia !
If it isn't NATO, it's the Pentagon attempting to whip up
budget hysteria if not war fever.
With all this huffing an puffing going on how come a Russian was able to buy Pabst brewing company? Almost all the beer is owned by foriegn companies now. That is really dangerous! America, get you priorities straight. A beer shortage could cause a revolution.
Go craft style. Plenty of them around now. Don't sweat the majors being off shored.
We have an ACE in the HOLE!!! The F-35, once operational in the air (about 10 or 11 years from now) will have the Russians wetting their pants.
Military Jet Weekly has already dubbed it as the most capable fighter for taxying around on runways in a generation. Yeah!!! Kick ass!!!
I think what the bear is doing is pretty clear. as Washington continues it's drive to weaken Russia via sanctions and expand it's influence right up to Moscows front door, the bear is responding in the most pointed way it can. these have been increasing messages and reminders, not just to the American political and military establishment but to the American public as well. reminders that should this go sideways, should the west's drive for global supremecy push things past the PSR, they have the ability to bring this war to the Alaska and even the continential US.
Moscow is just showing all relevent parties that while NATO can threaten and posture and continue to encrouch further into the bears den, they can knock just as hard at Washingtons back door.
insteresting fact to keep in mind as this continues to play out, currently Russia and the US are the only two countries on the planet that operate and maintian long range stratigic nuclear bomber forces...
and then there was one?
The only time I saw it get "Hot" was when the Sec Def got shot at in East Germany back in the mid 80's. We were outside the Mieningen Gap before you could say Cat! 11ACR had Fulda all wrapped up too. Good times back then. Beer too.
The last two decadent generations after war can`t wait to have all the old device set off in one go. Bring it on, whatever threat or guilt it is. War we have either way,
ethnic. generational, imperialistic outside or ethnic inside of the nation.
Did they have beautiful Ukranian barmaids then?
Both Russia and the US could be political allies if globalists and neocons would stop the war drums for a minute. Both are basically Christian countries, and powerful within their spheres of influence. Now that Russia has stepped away from communism and the US has snuggled up to socialism, the two systems aren't all that different anymore.
Russia has tried to be reasonable in all this while the US seems to be the barking dog here. We need to roll up a newspaper and smack the neocons across the face.
Sit, Ubu, SIT. Stay. Good dog.
The USA will NEVER accept Russia except as a colony. The USA has only vassals and enemies, Europe is now colonised and only Asia and Russia remain to be brought into the empire
NWO has other plans for both.
Dogs of war barking making all discussions thereof deaf.
But instead of blaming any dogs, we need to round up any newspaper fifth column filth. No fourth power, fourth scum.
"Both are basically Christian countries, and powerful within their spheres of influence. Now that Russia has stepped away from communism and the US has snuggled up to socialism, the two systems aren't all that different anymore."
What is your local or general propaganda outfit suggesting ?
"Russians hate their children too"
Beware of propaganda.
"Now that Russia has stepped away from communism and the US has snuggled up to socialism"
While the second point is increasingly self-evident, the first one not so much.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/did_communism_fake_its_own_dea.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEldxmX5874 11min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrTeFOshRdk 11min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCbCdwrwGWs 6min
http://www.scribd.com/doc/213346777/1978-Golitsyn-Memo-Long-Range-Objectives-of-the-Soviet-Leaders-from-The-Perestroika-Deception
Etc.
It is possible that Russia really has stepped away from communism, but I don't know how to realistically trust our increasingly globalist oriented FedGov to discern and responsibly address that. It seems to me that all of our influential political and cultural institutions have been successfully subverted so that only a miracle can save us.
Nothing and no miracle can save us. They pray to Satan,
all of them, stop praying. But keep believing, nature will set things right.
"nature will set things right"
Gaia (and its various monikers) represent a primitive, anthropomorphic misunderstanding of matter and energy as we experience them.
Of TPTB, perhaps most do, knowingly or otherwise, "pray to Satan". Most of the rest of us do not.
For what I was referring to, see:
Russia will certainly play a crucial role in the affirmative development of mankind. Hard to tell what we'll do to ourselves in the meantime.
If you are American, I must assume that your usage of the word ''Communism'' is 100% incorrect.
What you refer to is a form of government that is Statist, treats people more like feudal serfs than citizens, tends towards a single strong leader that may or may not be elected, and has a strong state sector of industry that may or may not be a looting operation by the elite. Varying degrees of feudalism, totalitarianism, statism, socialism, dirigisme, people are the property of the state, limited property rights, kleptocracy, aristocracy/elite looting, and corruption.
Many of those aspects exist in the USA - treating people like serfs, the elite looting.
Communism, in that the people own the means of all production, simply does not exist on this planet, even if the Chinese insist that is how they do it.
What people say and what they actually do usually differ
It'll take more than a rolled up newspaper to get the neocons under control. Like trying to passify a rabid dog.
Calling the US a Christian country is off the mark. Those in control of the US Deep State are not Christian, and have been busy at work dismantling what the US used to be for a number of generations now.
The US is a pale shadow of its former self, grandious only in its self image. The dual citizen tribe members are just using the US for their own aims and will discard the spent, shattered hulk when they achieve them.
The bear is not as beautiful as the swan !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyXdFefx4L0
Typhoon = Eurofighter rather than anything Hawker or Gloster might have built.
When NATO aircraft are sitting on Russia's borders it is quite reasonable to visit their home bases and see where the empty parking spaces are
It never happened. Russians don't posture, don't yap or waste their time and energy on useless warnings. This is just another piece of pathetic propaganda to wet the MIC appetites and keep the public sufficiently scared- nothing more than that.
"tactical ICBMs" - on bombers. No credibility.
The more correct term would be "cruise missiles".
They just have more range and speed than a classic cruise missile.
When they launch they incinerate the plane..no evidence they were ever there
Time to send up Maverick...John McCain...to show these Russian commies how a real pilot deals with intruders. I'd bet a pair of shit stained underwear, if these Russian bears saw Maverick McCain behind the wheel of an F22, they wouldn't dare even think about coming into US international airspace ever again.
Yeah McCain. McCain might take out another US carrier like the Forrestal or maybe if his old man, the admiral, was alive he could abandon the USS Liberty again. .
The McCain clan - f***ing over American sailors and soldiers for almost a century.
Kissinger used to send SAC bombers over the pole just to fuck with the Soviets during the Vietnam War. Turnabout is fair play.
Kissingers "their are more important things about keeping peace, freedom what this is all about" still rings true. Freedom though rings hallow, in retrospect even more so.
Kissinger, Pinochet and Thatcher were my hero`s in my reactionary teens.
Wonder what Kissinger told his prince Putin upon the briefing of the only genuine world leader. Who rules ?
Absolute Bullshit!
Kissinger didn't "send SAC bombers over the pole just to fuck with the Soviets during the Vietnam War".
Kissinger was Secretary of State for just over three years. Before that, he was a mere national security adviser.
That is like saying Condoleeza Rice gave missions to, and ordered military units around.
I would love to see you make the case that Kissinger gave missions to, and controlled military units (nuclear bombers in this case). That would mean he usurped the legitimate command and prerogatives of several people, including one of the most stubborn, hard-ass Presidents that ever sat in the White House (Nixon).
My guess is that you take the weenie route and try to weasel your way out by trying to puff up Kissinger into some kind of Svengali that didn't need to order nuclear bombers directly, because he had so much influence (which he did not) or some variation of this.
In any case, it is still absolute bullshit...
Trillions of dollars spent on defence and still nobody's come up with a better idea than burning dead animals to get around.
Live animals are much slower.
Putin telegram: We're still here, and unlike Saddam, we DO have nukes.
An American, not US subject.
"POE" "OPE"
US war mongering instigators.
Is it time for the next Top Gun? Quick, somebody get a Kickstarter going!
Highway to midshipman zone,
Gonna take you right out of the poverty zone ...
Wake me up when Devo comes on.
This is the same NORAD that couldn't get a single fighter into the air on 9/11?
Hold on thur a minute. The TEEVEE told me that the 'Muricans launched kamikaze pilots that day...so we actually were safe, we just didn't know it.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44459345/ns/us_news-9_11_ten_years_later/t/kamikaze-f--pilots-planned-ram-flight/#.VB32wfldV8E
I'm surprised the F-22s made it there and back. F-35s still grounded? Great $460b investment
http://zbigniewmazurak.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/rebuttal-of-mark-thompsons-lies-about-f-22-fighters/
Here's a USAF B-47 recon pilot's USSR-baiting story from @ 55 years ago
http://rb-29.net/HTML/31HAustinB-47/31harb-47.htm
Hey, please report all non-news for consistency then:
Think of the possibilities!
Obama announced a budget surplus and trade surplus on the same day.
Elvis Presley was interviewed on CNN tgether with Whitney Houston
Osama Bin Laden on live TV yukking it up with John Brennan
Did the F22s manage to make it all the way back to their base without killing the pilots or breaking mechanically? Clearly they're getting better then.
They'll still now require several weeks of maintenance to "recover" from the mission.
Palin watched it from her porch for confirmation
yay cold war we could be attacked by megaton nuclear weapons any day now
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I wish my grandparents were still alive
You can still get the instructions for Duck and Cover on Youtube here. It works for earthquakes too.
It must have been a rare site for russian pilots to see a f22 in flight . At a cost of 356Mil$ each and for every hour in the air the F22 needs 23 hours maintenence they would be trying to work out how the US got two in the air together.
I should think Russia and China know the names of the pilots and their children
... too bad they wouldn't/couldn't let Dick Cheney know the same thing on 9/11
They should have sent Tom Crusie up there. Only he can invert over the "enemy".
/s
"If we like your Alaska we can keep your Alaska"
Putin - 2014
The Tupolev Tu-95 can carry multiple missiles.
The Kh-55 missile has a range of 2,500 km. The Tu-95 doesn't need to be close to the borders of any country to launch it.
What a waste of energy this article. For fucks sake, Russia is less than 50 miles form Alaska.
Next thing we'll hear is that Russia has encrouched upon the 50 mile zone, while still flying over Russia? A lot of crap on ZH these days.
Well, the news is that F22s were actually deployed in some capacity other than making a mockery of Congress and Lockheed Martin.
But really, unless the Russians invade Whidbey Island and can be repelled by a squad of A6s, there is essentially no defense of the continental United States whatsoever. You can reference 9/11 on that one.
Where were these Awesome Eagles, these Top Gun Slingers, these Masters of the Air on 9/11?
What? In Alaska? Oh....roger that.
If this were a feint by the Russians what would be the purpose? The purpose of a feint is to learn something or achieve something. Was the purpose to distract US air defenses - from what? To mis-direct Homeland Security - from what? To warn against - what? To assist who in achieving what?
Or is it in some way really routine?