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Russia jets resume Cold War runs
BBC News ^
| 08/09/07
| BBC
Posted on 08/09/2007 8:30:14 AM PDT by Sax
Russian bombers have flown to the US island of Guam in the Pacific as part of an exercise this week reminiscent of the Cold War. Two Tu-95 jets flew to Guam, which is home to a big US military base, Maj Gen Pavel Androsov said.
They "exchanged smiles" with US pilots who scrambled to track them, he added.
The sorties, believed to be the first since the Cold War ended, come as Russia stresses a more assertive foreign policy, observers say.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: aerospace; bear; coldwar2; guam; ivan; russia; russianmilitary; sorties; sovietunion; tu95; ussr
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Tu-95 Bears are turbo props, not jets. Basically, cruise missile launching platforms. The Brits just intercepted a few for the first time in many years about a week or two ago. Russia's looking to get a little of their Cold War swagger back.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:30:16 AM PDT
by
Sax
To: Sax
Russian military demanding that they be allowed to train for “whatever” or what is their purpose.
Means nothing.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:32:28 AM PDT
by
WBL 1952
To: Sax
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:33:25 AM PDT
by
Sax
To: Sax
They are not really used for launching cruise missiles - they are used as recon platforms to provide midcourse info to the cruise missiles.
They have a radar cross section like a skyscraper. There was some joke about this “We have sighted the enemy - dos vadanya, Motherland!”
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:37:40 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(Rudy Guiliani: If his wives can't trust him, why should we?)
To: Sax
Maybe now the U.S. will reopen its Alert Sites so for the next 9/11 we will have more fighter planes to put in the air, armed planes, and ones that are ready to go at a moment’s notice.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:42:01 AM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: Sax
I miss the Atlantic Morning Bear in the 70s and 80s that would fly down the east coast to Havanna every morning. You could set your watch by the sonic booms from US chase planes.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:44:45 AM PDT
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
To: WBL 1952
Means Putin is scared to death that what limited influence his thugs still have over the actions of sovereign nations is going away.
Colonel, USAFR
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:45:57 AM PDT
by
jagusafr
("Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" - Robert Heinlein)
To: Thrownatbirth
Time for some of our pilots to “communicate” with these Russkies, like they did in “Top Gun.”
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:46:35 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: Thrownatbirth
I read about some of the guys on the DEW Line talking about that one.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:47:21 AM PDT
by
Sax
To: Sax
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:47:26 AM PDT
by
TChris
(The Republican Party is merely the Democrat Party's "away" jersey - Vox Day)
To: Little Ray
They are not really used for launching cruise missiles - they are used as recon platforms to provide midcourse info to the cruise missiles. No offence, but I think I'll rely on Maj Gen Pavel Androsov, who identified these aircraft as Tu-95MS, which is a cruise missile carrier.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:52:11 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(The Simpsons already did it!)
To: Sax
Is has to be weird for the US crews.... They must feel like they are at a vintage aircraft show when they see these things coming. You'd expect to see some old dude, in an old leather bomber jacket sitting at the controls. :)Crack Russian pilots in their scary Tupolev Bear.
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posted on
08/09/2007 9:00:12 AM PDT
by
FormerACLUmember
(The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
To: Sax
Obsolete bluster. The turboprop Tu-95MS bomber is so unbelievably noisy that the crews are all stone deaf in no time. It is so loud, that submerged submarines recognize its sound signature on sonar.
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posted on
08/09/2007 9:01:03 AM PDT
by
FormerACLUmember
(The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
To: Sax
That Bear was useful to the Sixth Fleet for years - all the EWs could align their shipboard DF antennas daily to that one big pulsing threat emitter.
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posted on
08/09/2007 9:20:06 AM PDT
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
To: Sax
Slow moving target practice for the F-22, nothing more nothing less.
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posted on
08/09/2007 9:57:00 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
To: Sax
We should send up some old F4c’s up to meet them when they fly by.
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posted on
08/09/2007 10:31:08 AM PDT
by
ArtyFO
(I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire at the moonbat loonery.)
To: ArtyFO
We should send up some old F4cs up to meet them when they fly by. There might be a few drone F-4s left, but they are starting to use early model F-16s for targets.
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posted on
08/09/2007 10:53:59 AM PDT
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: FormerACLUmember
The turboprop Tu-95MS bomber is so unbelievably noisy that the crews are all stone deaf in no time. It is so loud, that submerged submarines recognize its sound signature on sonar. Sort of surprised they haven't re-engined them with high bypass turbofans. Looks like it would work structurally.
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posted on
08/09/2007 10:55:38 AM PDT
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: FormerACLUmember
It looks like a rip-off of the B-29.
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posted on
08/09/2007 11:03:31 AM PDT
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(eHarmony reject)
To: Rb ver. 2.0
same mission, cheaper + more primitive plane.
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posted on
08/09/2007 11:10:30 AM PDT
by
FormerACLUmember
(The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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