[lizol]

Tu-95

[lizol]

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[From One - Many]

putin, a putin?
don't know, but it sure stinks.

[Crazieman]

Article says the next time around they flew Tu-160s (B1-ski)

[CarrotAndStick]

Norway also scrambled fighters yesterday to follow two Tu-160 Russian bombers, a more modern jet-engine strategic bomber than the propeller-driven Tu-90, which passed near Norwegian air space in the Barents Sea.

Tu-160

[Stallone]

The Evil Empire should be booted out of the G8 toute suite.

[UnklGene]

[MrB]

That bomber has

PROPELLERS?

[ex-Texan]

The Russian Bear growls in the woods. Distraction alert! . . . Ooops!

Meanwhile, three Russkie stealth fighters penetrated deep into British air space

[bd476]

"The Russian bombers stayed in international air space during their flight, which took them as far south as the region between Norway's Stavanger..."

It looks as if Russia is playing a complicated game with UK, with Norway, and with NATO. NATO and a Norwegian Air Base is located in Stavanger. Also this was in the news recently:

Norwegian Armed Forces

Espen Schiager, 2007-06-22

Weeks 24-25: Network for NATO

The big NATO exercise Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) was held at Jørstadmoen this month.

Up to 1200 representatives from 20 different countries were present to test communication systems.

This was the fourth year that CWID was arranged at Jørstadmoen in Norway. 2007 was the first time that Norway gathered the Army, Navy and the Air Force in the same exercise. This is part of the process toward making the Norwegian Defence network based.

The nations that participated were Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Sweden, Spain, Turkey, Great Britain, the USA, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary and Estonia.

Norwegian Armed Forces

[ElectricStrawberry]

Time to resurrect the F-106s?

[wolfcreek]

Russia needs to quit playing *cold war* games. Accidents do happen.

[M Kehoe]

TU 95

What a pretty target. Too bad Ivan didn't build a bunch of them.

Pooty Poot seems awful restless these days...oh, I've been meaning to tell Putin, "that was a good hit you put on Verachenko (sp)." "Vlad, between you and me, that would make a good movie." "FReep mail me, and I'll give you the address to send the royalties."

5.56mm

[fso301]

With oil and gas revenues up, the Russians can afford to fly

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Why are the Russians playing these games?

[britemp]

Time we brought our English-Electric Lightnings back out of mothballs to intercept these things. Introduced in 1960, they are still the fastest climbing fighter ever at 50,000ft per minute and for those who think the F22 is great because it can 'supercruise' - the Lightning could do that in 1960 and could fly high and fast enough to intercept U2's! :0

[Thunder90]

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[M. Espinola]

Putin & his KGB thugs are testing & probing the response of Gordon Brown. This calculated intrusion into British air space with long range bomber no less, is typical Soviet tactics.

Members of the pro-Kremlin youth movement 'Nashi' walk past a poster showing Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Nashi summer camp on Lake Seliger, some 300 km (186 miles) north-west of Moscow July 17, 2007. Some 10,000 youths from all over Russia live for up to two weeks in the camp, where they do sports and attend political and socially oriented lectures, the organisers said. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Putin's version of Russia's HJ 'Hitler Youth' continue their neo-Soviet indoctrination at 'summer camp'.

10,000 young Russians the new Red Guards to fight Kremlin's opponents

British companies and envoys feel Russian backlash

No Idle Summer Days For Russia's Political Youth

Youth Groups Created by Kremlin Serve Putin's Cause in the Streets

[Tommyjo]

That is a Tu-142 Bear J of the Russian Navy. The Bears involved in the flights last week were Tu-95MS Bear Hs.