Russia wants to fly surveillance planes over US with advanced cameras, congressional staffer says

Associated Press ^ | February 22, 2016 | UNKNOWN

[Gunslingr3]

yawn

[ClearCase_guy]

Russia will ask Vienna for permission to violate US air space.

We have no borders and we are not a sovereign country any more.

[LucyT]

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

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.

[Sasparilla]

Can we put a microphone in Putin’s office?

[chuckee]

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.

[Minutemen]

Zero (The High & Mighty) will have no problem with Russian request.

[DesertRhino]

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.

[DesertRhino]

“Why overflights? All they need do is put on a sombrero and come up through the southern border”

LOL,, so true

[drypowder]

ruse for an EMP device activation

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Interesting to note that the article also says:

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."

[PIF]

Introducing the new TU-214R

[DonaldC]

Whey don’t they just use a satellite like everyone else?

[McGruff]

We signed the open skies treaty in 2002.

And who was president at the time? No wonder Putin liked him so much.

[mac_truck]

Turkey just rejected a Russian request for an over flight of their country a couple of weeks ago...no reason given.

[John S Mosby]

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?

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“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. ;-)

[RayChuang88]

They can do it on one condition: we can do the same with the Global Hawk drones or specially-modified RC-135's equipped for Open Skies monitoring duties.

[fortheDeclaration]

Don't they use satellites already?