Puti flexing his pinkie finger.
WE should put up a 20,000 foot high six foot thick plexiglass “wall”.
Four days in a row is something amazing for the Russian air force’s maintenance crews! I truly didn’t think they could put aircraft in the air that many days in a row.
I think Russia has done this before. Why media all in tizzy this time? Trump is prez that is why.
Comrade Putin is merely looking for new locations for his shirtless beefcake photos. His fan club will be suitably thrilled.
Big deal. This is not particularly worrisome to me. The N. Korean nuts and China are definitely a concern of mine. There is heightened media attention on everything Russian at this time in large part because of the Trump-Russian issue, but militarily, I don’t see much to get concerned about, really. They are testing and probing and spying. They are Russians - that what they do! We aren’t shocked or surprised, I assure you.
Russia is so pathetic. Oil below $50 once again. Pooty is hurting big time.
these Russian aircraft were “state of art” in 1960s, now at a cruise speed of 390 knots they are toys against the latest jet fighters....
Putin is doing this for show - I rather doubt that the bombers are even loaded with deliverable weapons. It is his only way of saving face after not shooting down any of our slow-moving cruise missiles with the “vaunted” S-400 AA missile system that they have in Syria.
FYI, I’d love to see how much new underwear the Russkies would need if we started flying BUFFs 30-odd miles off of their coast. Methinks that the Soviet, err, Russian flights would stop pretty soon.
Did S! see them from Wasilla and call it in?
We shouldn’t send any fighters up intercept but say we did just to mess with their heads.
Aren’t we talking about “Bear” bombers here. Those things have roughly the radar cross section of a large barn, and fly as quickly as one. They’re 1950s-era turboprops.
Russian aircraft are not a threat to America. An actual attack by these things would elicit the same sort of response that a USSR actual aircraft attack run would have got. Putin is not terribly stupid. This is an insult, not a threat.
I imagine it’s being done for electronic surveillance, trying to catch anything that covers Trump’s actual intentions and instructions to DOD that might be manifest in any U.S. military communications in the northern Pacific.
Lol. Bears. Lear jets with 50cal pods could shoot them down. Also you don’t need radar to find them. You just need good ears.
No soft computer chips on those planes...
That’s okay. Many political class folks on the west coast haven’t assimilated as Americans, yet, and identify more with the Russians. The bombers won’t get close to the Midwest or southern states, though.
With the Dems and the media's moronic, psychotic “blame Russia” reaction to their loss, the world thinks America is a basket case. The Dem/media alliance is a national security risk (and more).