Posted on 10/22/2014 2:44:38 AM PDT by Candor7
MOSCOW, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Russia has begun a large-scale militarization of the Arctic Ocean region, with a military command structure planned by 2017.
It comes after recent discoveries of oil and natural gas reserves under the ocean floor, and the possibility a potential Northern Sea Route -- an alternative to the Suez Canal -- could soon be established as global climate change causes melting of Arctic ice.
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Cold weather fighter jets and bombers? There are still going to have very limited usability. But we’ll probably just sit there as they try and they’ll develop better cold weather technology than us.
There is a large increase in point of failures (unknown knowns) and not just for the jets and bombers, for the base in general.
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