Posted on 02/22/2016 9:18:47 AM PST by PIF
Russia will ask permission on Monday to start flying surveillance planes equipped with high-powered digital cameras amid warnings from U.S. intelligence and military officials that such overflights help Moscow collect intelligence on the United States.
Russia and the United States are signatories to the Open Skies Treaty, which allows unarmed observation flights over the entire territory of all 34 member nations to foster transparency about military activity and help monitor arms control and other agreements. Senior intelligence and military officials, however, worry that Russia is taking advantage of technological advances to violate the spirit of the treaty.
Russia will formally ask the Open Skies Consultative Commission, based in Vienna, to be allowed to fly an aircraft equipped with high-tech sensors over the United States, according to a senior congressional staffer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the staff member wasn't authorized to discuss the issue publicly.
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Russia will ask Vienna for permission to violate US air space.
We have no borders and we are not a sovereign country any more.
I remember that Ike had asked the former U.S.S.R. about this ‘open-skies’ policy and the U.S.S.R. rejected that idea. Then the U-2 incident happened.
When was this treaty signed? I am unfamiliar with it.
Can we put a microphone in Putin’s office?
Why overflights? All they need do is put on a sombrero and come up through the southern border and see the USA up close and personal like millions of others.
Zero (The High & Mighty) will have no problem with Russian request.
We signed the open skies treaty in 2002. The treaty says that the intent is for current film cameras to be upgraded to digital which was emerging at that time. That’s all this is.
All data or film shot is shared with all signatories of the treaty. We fly the same mission over there.
“Why overflights? All they need do is put on a sombrero and come up through the southern border”
LOL,, so true
ruse for an EMP device activation
The treaty, for instance, obligates each member to make all of its territory available for aerial observation, yet Russia has imposed restrictions on surveillance over Moscow and Chechnya and near Abkhazia and South Ossetia, he said. Russian restrictions also make it hard to conduct observation in the Kaliningrad enclave, said Rademaker, who believes Russia is "selectively implementing" the treaty "in a way that suits its interests."
Whey don’t they just use a satellite like everyone else?
We signed the open skies treaty in 2002.
And who was president at the time? No wonder Putin liked him so much.
Turkey just rejected a Russian request for an over flight of their country a couple of weeks ago...no reason given.
So, just WHO pushed this “Open Skies” treaty? And what does it say. What idiot would do such a thing? And, are WE flying over Russia in the same way. Is this the world according to GOOGLE and the Russian mob?
“Can we put a microphone in Putin’s office?”
My money says that, one way or another, his conversations are already known to the NSA/CIA. I remember the triangular crystal which was in the window glass of the Soviet embassy. ;-)
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