Posted on 09/21/2015 2:27:12 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
Russia has started flying drone aircraft on surveillance missions in Syria, U.S. officials said on Monday, in what appeared to be Moscow's first military air operations inside the country since staging a rapid buildup at a Syrian air base.
The start of Russian drone flights underscored the risks of U.S.-led coalition planes and Russian aircraft operating within Syria's limited airspace without agreeing on coordination or objectives in Syria's civil war.
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No, it will also be a win for bh0 in his mission to destroy the US and its influence in the Middle East.
we need new national leadership
now
The US air campaig against ISIS was total artifice and the US media COVERED for him. Putin knew the truth, and that’s why he’s there, now.
They want to preserve their client state and their single warm water port on the Mediterranean.
The freeper above makes a series of predictions that are reasonable.
No this Administration is not going to attack Saudi Arabia’s proxy army ISIS.
They were allies of convenience against the Nazis during WWII, but immediately after that common foe was defeated they became our adversary, and it was their choosing to do so, not ours.
“When you know your nation has reached new depths of despair?
When Russia has to step in to confront evil terrorist organizations because your president refused to.”
Worse, terrorist organizations which we have nurtured if not created.
It should have been done long ago. NWO Bush 1 treated the Russians like crap because he wanted to work with Gorbachev.
The old question was: Who lost China?
The new question is: Who lost Russia?
We should be standing back to back with Russia to crush Islam that even thinks about getting out of its banks. The Uniparty, transnational quislings are at war with our own civilization.
A little elint intercepting and code cracking to understand ASA’s remarks:
http://www.army-portal.com/jobs/military-intelligence/35s.html
Apparently we have or will have US Marine Corp pilots operating off a UK carrier:
DSEI: U.S. Marine F-35Bs Will Operate From British Queen Elizabeth Carriers
USNI News ^ | September 17, 2015 | Jon Rosamond
Posted on 9/21/2015, 5:49:50 AM by sukhoi-30mki
LONDON — The U.S. Marine Corps will deploy its Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II strike fighters on combat sorties from Britain’s new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, a senior U.K. Royal Navy officer has confirmed.
Rear Adm. Keith Blount, who is responsible for delivering the two 65,000 ton ships, said that using Marine aircraft and pilots to bolster the U.K.’s nascent carrier strike capability would be a natural extension of coalition doctrine.
“We are forever operating with allies and within coalitions. It’s the way wars are fought”, the Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Aviation, Amphibious Capability and Carriers) and Rear Adm. Fleet Air Arm told an audience at the DSEI defence exhibition in London on Wednesday.
“In order to get the best out of [the U.K. carrier program] we have to be able to situate it in a coalition context. That could mean that we operate with an American ship as one of the protecting escorts”, Blount said.
“But … given the fact that the U.S. Marine Corps are buying and will operate the same type of aircraft as we are buying and operating, it would make no sense whatsoever if we were to close down the opportunity and potential of the U.S. Marine Corps working from this flight deck. “So yes, I expect the U.S. Marine Corps to operate and work from the deck of the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier. We are going to get the most bang for the buck we can for the U.K. taxpayer, and that’s one of the ways in which we’ll achieve it.”
While Blount painted the co-operative arrangement in positive terms, it will disappoint critics who believe the U.K. government should provide the R.N. and Royal Air Force (RAF) with sufficient resources, in both aircraft and manpower, to regenerate the country’s carrier air wings independently.
Each of the 284 m-long carriers, fitted with a ‘ski jump’ bow ramp instead of the catapults and arrester wires once planned, will accommodate up to 40 aircraft: short takeoff/vertical landing F-35B strike fighters, helicopters, or a blend of fixed-wing and rotary tailored to the mission in hand.
Britain took delivery of its first Lightning II aircraft in 2012 and currently has three; the fourth is due to roll off Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth production line in January 2016.
“We have people in America now flying these jets”, said Blount, who disclosed that the RN had recently recruited its first ab initio F-35B pilots. “The first frontline jet they will ever fly in will be the F-35 … that’s how close we are getting to this. “When I was at Edwards Air Force Base quite recently I met 140 sailors and an equal number of RAF personnel that are in the testing and evaluation squadron to bring this aircraft online. This is genuinely exciting stuff, and this aircraft is a world beater for what it is designed to do – an exceptional platform.”
Britain’s F-35Bs are scheduled to arrive at Marham Air Base in eastern England in mid-2018, achieving initial operating capability by the end of that year. A deployable U.K. carrier strike capability should be ready by late 2020.
Blount said he was also “very excited” about the opportunities presented through Joint Helicopter Command to operate Apache, Chinook, Merlin and other helicopters from the Queen Elizabeth class. “Getting rid of the cats and traps actually makes this a far simpler proposition, and one of the reasons why this capability is so versatile and useful to us,” he added.
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We have the luxury of geographical isolation, such as it is relative to the mixed pail of crap in Europe and Asia. So we do not need to move so quickly, as we watch Europe burn.
Rereading your post, I understand the urgency here to cut the head off the snake, but not so much as to terrorism here.
I agree with that.
Yep... big win for Obama though, since he’s a communist. I don’t believe he is inept, if he were just inept he would get something right at least once in a while. Instead he does nothing differently than a Russian mole would do in the same position.
Obama is doing exactly what Russia wants him to do.
The Russian SA-300s will guarantee that only the planes they permit will fly to include both the US and Israeli AFs.
And if that isn’t good enough, the shortly arriving Chinese air and naval assets will put paid to all others’ efforts anywhere in the Middle East.
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