Those old Bears aren't, but I'm pretty sure this one is invisible to ATC:
Posted on 01/30/2015 1:20:38 PM PST by Reverend Saltine
The US sent an aircraft across Russia and they never even knew we were there. True!
This should thrill all the pro-Putin FINOs.
E.G.: pair of nuclear-capable Russian bombers Whoa Nelly, duck and cover!
...transponders turned off, British officials said, making them invisible to many air traffic control systems.... Thank goodness for all those alert Boy and Girl Scouts with their keen young eyes turned skyward!
similar flyovers by nuclear bombers along the west coast of the United States from Alaska all the way down to California. Filthy Communist Swine! Is not our own Pacific Ocean sacred to these beasts?
Heavens to Betsey, Chet! What next, NAZI submarines off New Jersey? I suggest you finish getting your tech from the 1920's Hardy Boys Series and move on to 1930's Nancy Drew. In the meantime, let's write to the War Department and demand more coast watchers and better binoculars.
So current civilian radar cannot detect planes if their transponders are turned off?
Transponders and radar are two different things.
I know that they’ve married the two things together so that radar matches up blips with the transponder info so you can see who each blip is on the screen, but to say radar can’t see these planes as unidentified aircraft?
Seems not right. Even if civilian radar couldn’t see them, military radar sure the hell should have.
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Those old Bears aren't, but I'm pretty sure this one is invisible to ATC:
The British will shoot it down with a beaming creepy grin from Jimmy Saville
No pipeline to China no ka-ching. And then there's the matter of Russia nad China coming to a price agreement.
What “British?” There are none left; only goat-eaters
The enemy of 0dumb0 (Putin) is a friend of mine!
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Russian-Gas-Provides-Lifeline-To-Chinese-Expansion.html
You mean like the one currently under construction?
"Repeat, Please."
Both the gas field and the pipeline won't be operational until sometime in 2019.
They noticed the could get more value selling their fuels for Yuan than selling it for Euros.
And it's gas from Eastern Siberia, meaning that this gas can only be purchased by China. Europe was never a potential customer for this gas.
Wow, right out of Area 51 and reversed aline engineering!!!!!
Supposedly, there was. Nver really resolved, but I thought it was the Chinks did it (can i say that???)
Holy crap! That looks like it could be all the way up to as much as five lbs per hand!!!!!!
Good one, but I’ve seen him do this even in a Speedo!!! And no sunblock.
Supposedly the world is flat. At least there are some people that say so.
There was no launch. It was resolved when it happened.
you seem to be very trusting of those sources you seem to value.
it’s your Call, in the end.
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