Those old Bears aren't, but I'm pretty sure this one is invisible to ATC:
Posted on 01/30/2015 1:20:38 PM PST by Reverend Saltine
Russian President Vladimir Putin hasn’t been one to back down in response to sanctions against his country and attacks on his economy. Rather, he has stepped up not only his rhetoric, but his military activities as well.
His latest move is yet another show of force to let the West know Russia is prepared to do whatever is necessary to protect its interests.
The U.K.’s Royal Air Force scrambled fighter jets on Thursday after a pair of nuclear-capable Russian bombers flew across a busy civilian air traffic corridor above the English Channel. The bombers had their transponders turned off, British officials said, making them invisible to many air traffic control systems. The incident disrupted multiple flights – and ended with the U.K. government demanding the Russian ambassador appear at the Foreign Office to explain the actions.
This latest incident comes on the heels of similar flyovers by nuclear bombers along the west coast of the United States from Alaska all the way down to California. It has even been speculated that Russia may have tested a new weapon last year leading to a shut down of Los Angeles commercial air traffic control systems.
Earlier this morning former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said that the U.S. and Russia are engaged in another cold war but warned that it could well go hot should tensions between the two nations continue to escalate.
Late last year Vladimir Putin made similar remarks:
He accused Barack Obama of adopting a “hostile” approach in naming Russia as a threat to the world in the U.S. president’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 24.
“We hope that our partners will realize the futility of attempts to blackmail Russia and remember what consequences discord between major nuclear powers could bring for strategic stability.”
Putin said that Obama had identified Russian aggression in Europe as one of the three “major threats facing humanity,” alongside the Ebola virus and Islamic State.
“Together with the sanctions against entire sectors of our economy, this approach can be called nothing but hostile,” Putin said.
Russia’s ally against the West, China, also seems to be making some bold moves. According to a new satellite photo taken over the Nanji Islands they are building a refueling complex, the design and location of which indicate they are positioning military assets in anticipation of a war with Japan. In 2010 a missile launch off the coast of California was attributed to China by some observers who believe that they, too, are signaling their willingness to engage in a global conflict should it become necessary.
With the economies on both sides of the pond unraveling, Russian influence in former East Bloc regions growing, and U.S. boots already on the ground across Europe, it may only be a matter of time before the relatively innocuous poking and prodding goes critical.
That nuclear weapons are even on the table is frightening. What’s even scarier are the psychopaths who have their fingers on the buttons.
The US sent an aircraft across Russia and they never even knew we were there. True!
This should thrill all the pro-Putin FINOs.
E.G.: pair of nuclear-capable Russian bombers Whoa Nelly, duck and cover!
...transponders turned off, British officials said, making them invisible to many air traffic control systems.... Thank goodness for all those alert Boy and Girl Scouts with their keen young eyes turned skyward!
similar flyovers by nuclear bombers along the west coast of the United States from Alaska all the way down to California. Filthy Communist Swine! Is not our own Pacific Ocean sacred to these beasts?
Heavens to Betsey, Chet! What next, NAZI submarines off New Jersey? I suggest you finish getting your tech from the 1920's Hardy Boys Series and move on to 1930's Nancy Drew. In the meantime, let's write to the War Department and demand more coast watchers and better binoculars.
So current civilian radar cannot detect planes if their transponders are turned off?
Transponders and radar are two different things.
I know that they’ve married the two things together so that radar matches up blips with the transponder info so you can see who each blip is on the screen, but to say radar can’t see these planes as unidentified aircraft?
Seems not right. Even if civilian radar couldn’t see them, military radar sure the hell should have.
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Those old Bears aren't, but I'm pretty sure this one is invisible to ATC:
The British will shoot it down with a beaming creepy grin from Jimmy Saville
No pipeline to China no ka-ching. And then there's the matter of Russia nad China coming to a price agreement.
What “British?” There are none left; only goat-eaters
The enemy of 0dumb0 (Putin) is a friend of mine!
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Russian-Gas-Provides-Lifeline-To-Chinese-Expansion.html
You mean like the one currently under construction?
"Repeat, Please."
Both the gas field and the pipeline won't be operational until sometime in 2019.
They noticed the could get more value selling their fuels for Yuan than selling it for Euros.
And it's gas from Eastern Siberia, meaning that this gas can only be purchased by China. Europe was never a potential customer for this gas.
Wow, right out of Area 51 and reversed aline engineering!!!!!
Supposedly, there was. Nver really resolved, but I thought it was the Chinks did it (can i say that???)
Holy crap! That looks like it could be all the way up to as much as five lbs per hand!!!!!!
Good one, but I’ve seen him do this even in a Speedo!!! And no sunblock.
Supposedly the world is flat. At least there are some people that say so.
There was no launch. It was resolved when it happened.
you seem to be very trusting of those sources you seem to value.
it’s your Call, in the end.
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