Posted on 11/18/2015 11:34:52 AM PST by QT3.14
The Russian air force just pulled off one of the biggest and most complex heavy bomber missions in modern history—sending no fewer than 25 Backfire, Bear, and Blackjack bombers on a coordinated, long-range air raid against alleged ISIS forces in Syria.
The Tuesday mission, which launched under the cover of darkness from a base in Ossetia in southern Russia, signaled a significant escalation of Moscow’s air war in Syria—and heralded the rebirth of Russian heavy bomber squadrons that once had withered from a lack of funding.
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Obama has allies... USA has allies, it isn’t often the two are the same.
Same here.
Astounding turn of events, eh?
No, the TU-95 is still in service and was involved in the Syria operations. Most of the TU-95s flying today are said to have been manufactured in the 80s/90s, which makes them younger than all US bombers, barring the B-2.
I wonder what kind of liaisons and red phones run from Moscow to Israel? Putin and Bibi are both practical men on that level, I surmise.
Yep.
Signs and portents, wars and rumors of wars.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear in what I was referring to. There was a passenger airliner derived from the Tu-95 Bear. It was the Tu-114 Rossiya. Those airliners are all retired.
Here’s an article about it in the Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-114
No they are flying the Caspian Sea route over Iran and Iraq with permission of those countries. The Iranians are also escorting the bombers through their airspace with F-14 Tomcats and F-4 Phantoms. See video at 1:13 and 1:20.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ascSnBbxfaU
Amen.
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