Posted on 08/09/2007 12:09:01 PM PDT by fishhound
Russian bombers have flown to the US island of Guam in the Pacific in a surprise manoeuvre reminiscent of the Cold War era.
Two Tu-95 turboprops flew this week to Guam, home to a big US military base, Russian Maj Gen Pavel Androsov said.
They "exchanged smiles" with US pilots who scrambled to track them, he added.
The sorties, believed to be the first since the Cold War ended, come as Russia stresses a more assertive foreign policy, correspondents say.
The flight is part of a pattern of more expansive Russian military operations in recent weeks, says BBC diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
I think they did that off Cape Cod a few times. I think the story is they were Photgraphed drinking bottles of Coke. But it might be a myth...
“Flight leader to base. Request permission to smile at target.”
When was that article originally made?
Let the Raptors out to play. Those Bears are only 40 years old.
Our friends are back to play.
I think Ivan is trying to say
“We’re baaack”.
Short trip.
"Assertive"? *That's* what they're calling it these days?
LOL
We don’t need the F-22 to say howdy to a Bear. Just show them the what they’ve already seen. It’s more than enough.
Most people confuse the fact that Russia was communist with the fact that they were our enemy. The reality is that they were communist for something over 75 years, but have been an enemy of the West for several hundred years. Don’t expect it to change anytime soon no matter what the President thinks he “sees” in Putin’s soul.
The U.S. would have been well advised to turn Patton loose on them in 1944, while they were severely weakened by Hitler and American traitors hadn’t had time to give them U.S. nuclear weapon technology.
There’s some funny footage of a bear hitting the water while trying to buzz a US ship. D’OH!
They did this to Britian last month.
The Tu-95MS Bear H are new-build airframes. The youngest came off the production line in the early 1990s. In comparison the youngest B-52 in service with the USAF is from October 1962!
Not a Bear. That was a Tu-16 Badger.
The out of area flights were restarted by the Russians in the late 1990s. Every major strategic forces exercise they do normally results in a long-range out of area flight. Last year they flew into the North American ADIZ.
I hope they venture illegally into our airspace next time... and we shoot them down.
I think that any country that one shuts off all feul to europe in the midst of a harsh winter.(Which it did last year) Knows it has no friends.
Here is a little more background info circa December 2000.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/11/30/193555.shtml
If someone pulls the trigger on you, the age of the gun is going to make little difference.
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