Posted on 04/16/2010 10:13:36 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
-- Russia is increasingly flexing its military muscles by penetrating Western airspace.
European defense officials have been worried about an increasing number of Russian bombers entering Western airspace.
A pair of Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack bombers -- the largest jet-powered combat aircraft ever built, capable of carrying nuclear missiles -- last month entered British airspace over Northern Scotland, Deutsche Welle reports.
Two Tornado fighter jets from the British air force intercepted the supersonic bombers, accompanying them for four hours until they left British airspace.
Similar incidents have occurred in recent years; London has said Russian planes have penetrated British airspace more than 20 times since the start of 2009.
Stefan Meister, a Russia expert with the German Council on Foreign Relations, said that some penetrations might be accidental. He didn't rule out that there a Kremlin-authored strategy might be behind them.
"The infiltration into the airspace is one of the ways the Russians try to prove that Russia is still a power that should be treated with the respect," Meister told United Press International in a telephone interview.
A friend of military muscle-flexing, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in 2007 reactivated long-range patrols by nuclear-capable bombers after they hadn't been sent out over the world's oceans for 15 years.
The move came as the Kremlin expanded its grasp into the Arctic, as one of its submarines planted a flag in the seabed in territory it considers its own at the North Pole in 2007.
The Arctic is being transformed by climate change.
Melting ice sheets will leave the oceans in the region possibly ice-free during the summer months. This is opening a new Atlantic-Pacific shipping channel and makes the vast oil and gas resources lying under the seabed more accessible.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
Iceland has figured out that Russian is trying to penetrate its air space. They fired off one of their volcanoes in response. A sort of doomsday approach.
We are WAY behind in the volcano-as-anti-aircraft race. A volcano gap!
Perhaps HAARP can set off a volcano to stop Russian bombers and/or UFO’s. The colateral damage, on the other hand, would be a problem.
The Blackjack bombers are B1-B clones.
Interesting in that “we” the USA had a vast Radar System covering the USA and Canada forty years ago. Plus fighter aircraft on 5 minute alert across the USA. For one purpose.....to destroy Russian aircraft.
“Hell, in six months no one will remember HAARP 1. There will be HAARP 2 and 3 and he’ll keep getting his money. Until he is stopped.”
Remo Williams - The Adventure Begins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0GjSNyn6_c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FozMBKfSczg&feature=related
We must not allow a volcano gap! [slam open hand on the table.]
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.