Posted on 02/22/2016 9:18:47 AM PST by PIF
You probably just have to shoot one of them down to end the problem...
“When was this treaty signed?”
2002 :(
“2002 :(”
Thank you! ;-)I did not know that this country had succumbed to this nonsense.
Unless these aircraft are also outfitted with ESM gear, seems they can get the same information from Google Earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_OC-135B_Open_Skies
This is what we use. And we carry a local officer observer from the country we are over. As do they when they fly here.
It was a good idea and they had more to lose from it than we did. In 2002, the Russians were in total chaos, and weapons wise it was the wild west.
We locate many cool things there that even they don’t really know all about.
When the USSR imploded many places with insane things were simply abandoned. It literally wasn’t impossible to find nuclear materials abandoned.
On the other hand, there really is nothing to learn from flying here. They have a right to something like 31 flights a year here and only use 2 or 3. The days of searching for hidden fleets of bombers are gone.
If their plane cant see into an electronics laboratory, they wont learn much.
Russian Tu-214R intelligence gathering plane exposed
A special Tu-214 version, designated Tu-214ON, fitted with four photographic and three TV cameras, synthetic aperture radar and a linear-scanning infrared sensor, was developed to perform monitoring and observation flights under the Open Skies Treaty. The Tu-214ON (registration RA-64519) attended MAKS 2011 airshow.
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>On the other hand, there really is nothing to learn from flying here
Adm. Cecil D. Haney and Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart seem to think there is
“The treaty has become a critical component of Russia’s intelligence collection capability directed at the United States,” Adm. Cecil D. Haney, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, wrote in a letter earlier this year to Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chairman of a House subcommittee on strategic forces.
“In addition to overflying military installations, Russian Open Skies flights can overfly and collect on Department of Defense and national security or national critical infrastructure,” Haney said. “The vulnerability exposed by exploitation of this data and costs of mitigation are increasingly difficult to characterize.”
“The open skies construct was designed for a different era,” Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told lawmakers when asked about the Russian overflights during a congressional hearing. “I’m very concerned about how it’s applied today.”
No sightings here either.
I’ve got dibs on the photos of Area 51!
Sure hope their plane doesn’t “malfunction” while over American territory.
During the cold war, the Czechs would unfold an ultralight aircraft from its trailer, and fly over our military bases at night and take pictures.
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