Posted on 02/22/2024 11:54:44 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin taunted the West by taking a joyride in a modernised supersonic Tu-160M strategic nuclear bomber today - as the Kremlin threatened nuclear war.
The despot's stunt - which lasted around 40 minutes - appeared to be intended to enhance his macho ratings as he stands for re-election next month
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Putin was seen taking off in Kazan a day after he visited a factory in the city where the Tupolev bombers are manufactured.
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How many B-1s are actually capable of taking off and delivering ordinance? Asking for a taxpayer friend.
“The despot’s stunt”
No bias in reporting there, nope.
If China, Russia, NK or Iran is going to do serious damage to the USA, they will most certainly do it while Jobama is still in the WH. Count on it! Also, Chris Wray is a liar.
The Kremlin has threatened nuclear war to protect itself since the day they got nukes. The U.S. does the same thing. What do you think Kennedy was threatening when the Soviets got as close to us as NATO currently is to Russia? Trying to make the ridiculous point that this hasn’t always been the case is extremely dangerous and even more stupid. That’s a heck of a news flash you’ve got here.
How many times has any U.S. President taken a joyride in one of our nuclear bombers? Or is that just a Soviet thing?
Russia is getting 70 more of these monster sized aircraft. Basically it’s a Russian BuB that kept its mach 2 speed capability like the Bone it can also be used as a bombtruck dumping 50000+ lbs of jdam like munitions on anyone who doesn’t have full air superiority or at least a first world level SAM bubble.
A couple of these could level your average Uke sized town if they wanted too. Russia has not taken the gloves off yet and gone total war where you just level whole areas and move your troops over the rubble to the next area. They want to occupy territory and have to still live with the occupied people if they wanted to exterminate Ukraine Russia surely could do that with great efficiency.
I mean we did have shrub take a joy ride in the only ever NAVY ONE a S3 antisub hunter to declare mission accomplished. The S3 could carry nukes, it was rated for the B57 and the harpoon missile which the U.S. never officially armed with nukes but Israel is known to do it so assume we did at one point in the cold war as well. The external hard points certainty could take B61s so yes at least one POTUS has flown in a nuclear “bomber”
Biden was invited to ride along, however he kept falling down the aircraft stairway.
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One heck of a leader the war cheerleaders picked to start a fight with Russia, this brain dead proxy war ( as we are seeing) isn’t going to end well for the West.
Who knows? What the heck does it matter? You really think Putin is going to be bombing NYC from the cockpit of one their bombers? For the last 60 years MAD has been the policy of both nations. You ought to spend some and familiarize yourself with Cold War I. You really should have taken the time before you started cheerleading for Cold War II.
How many times has any U.S. President taken a joyride in one of our nuclear bombers? Or is that just a Soviet thing?
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Biden is a corrupted, senile, debilitated old man…..Putin is much like Trump, strong, intellectual, does what he says, and looks out for his citizens….
Krynky. Wha happen?
Can’t say, I’m no longer a Zoomie.
To be fair, the B-1 is being replaced by the new B-22 Raider. We will turn out more than two aircraft a year....
How gay do you have to be to not want to take a ride in a massive bomber?
B-17 or B-29 - I'm there.
Saw a B-52, but never got a ride.
Some say that sWill earns extra money as a rentboy to BoJo the Clown...
I remember the duck and cover drills.
I also remember being terrified when Saddam started throwing missiles at Israel.
Absolutely NOTHING I have seen of late reassures me we aren’t heading for some serious ugliness.
Thank you for the Triggered Zeeper Daily Mail propaganda post.
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