Posted on 08/17/2007 7:18:31 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin sent 14 bomber aircraft on patrols far beyond its own territory today, marking the permanent return to a Soviet-era practice.
Mr Putin said the resumption of flights was a response to security threats posed by other military powers.
“We have decided to restore flights by Russian strategic aviation on a permanent basis,” Mr Putin said at joint military exercises with China and four Central Asian states in Russia's Ural mountains.
“Today, August 17 at 00:00 hours, 14 strategic bombers took to the air from seven airfields across the country, along with support and refuelling aircraft.
“In 1992, Russia unilaterally ended flights by its strategic aircraft to distant military patrol areas.
" Unfortunately, our example was not followed by everyone.
“Flights by other countries' strategic aircraft continue and this creates certain problems for ensuring the security of the Russian Federation,” Mr Putin said.
Earlier this month Russian air force generals said bomber crews had flown near the Pacific island of Guam, where the US military has a base, forcing US aircraft to scramble into the air to track them.
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Ha ha ha! And, don’t forget: Putin is about as relevent as Kim I’m a ding Don in N Korea.
I have seen Murphy Dome. I have seen Ester Dome. I am not afraid!
Meanwhile, the trains are blowing up in Russia
It’s time for the U.S. Congress to approve more spending on the F-22. I think that would be a message the Russians would get loud and clear.
They need to know that just because we are involved a the so called war on terror,we will be keeping a wide eye on Russia’s activity and there is only so far we will let them go.
By the way the Reason I call it a So Called war on terror is I believe that this is really a proxy war sponsored by Islamic nations against the west.There agents are all of the terrorist entities that we hear about on a daily basis.
The US has been sending out patrols for a while. It’s getting a little more active in the world of nuke bombers.
There, fixed it.
Oh, the humanity!
I must say that I too prefer a Tango to a Mascarade any day.
One would think that having a population of approx. 150M to defend an area that covers 12 time zones, the least of his problems would be those coming from his west.
Yeah, sure...stick a sock in it !!!
They originally stopped flying those missions because they were bankrupt. Let's see how long it takes them to go broke again. The sooner, the better. Jerks!!!
Russia: $733.6 billion
U.S.: $13.21 trillion
Wanna go broke again, Ruskies?
It may be the Chinese when they take the natural resources in Siberia.
“Wonder how many will make it back...”
Good question.
I wonder how many of them were those old prop job Bears. Now, those are a REAL demonstration of power. Fifty year old planes are scary for sure...
The truth is Russia can’t project power from one border of the country to the other much less externally.
The F-22 Raptor may be our saviour today, but what about tomorrow?
Ve vill fliii around und bomb your troops and your nucleeer vessils!"
That Bear is on my “Coolest Aircraft” list. In one of the Clancy books (Red Storm) someone said that the aircraft was an afterthought...after the fuel tanks were designed.
Wow, haven’t heard that one in a while...
Whats really funny...We always knew, practically a day in advance when the “bear” was coming to the “box”...
They’d zoom up to about as high as they could, turn on that “big bulge” radar and find our group with no problem...Make their “friendly flyover” of as many ships in the group as possible and head for “V” like they had a purpose...
They’d catch up to us again after our usual stop in “PI”...
No big secret, and if it didn’t happen, that made us nervous, because it meant something else was watching us...
I’ve got some great pics of TU’s up close and personal from some guys I know...”Absolut”-ly some of the funniest stuff I’ve ever seen...
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