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Russian Bombers Fly Within 50 Miles of California Coast
freebeacon.com ^ | June 11, 2014 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 06/11/2014 7:05:23 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

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Wouldn’t matter where the servers are hosted, if such a scenario were to be realized the Internet would be toast.


41 posted on 06/11/2014 8:52:47 PM PDT by John Robinson
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I can see Russian planes from my house - wonder if the California sophisticates are laughing now.....


42 posted on 06/11/2014 8:52:54 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Is ‘freebeacon’ a legit site, or more like infowars?


43 posted on 06/11/2014 8:59:44 PM PDT by enraged
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To: Tailgunner Joe

They know they can get away with doing this. Unbelievable.


44 posted on 06/11/2014 9:24:58 PM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Just wait until ∅ hears about this in the news!!!
45 posted on 06/11/2014 9:31:06 PM PDT by QT3.14
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Isn’t it true that you can hear a TU-95 departing Russia all the way from Sarah Palin’s house in Alaska ?


46 posted on 06/11/2014 9:49:30 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Rumor has it that the Tu-95’s huge counterrotating propellers are so loud that it can be heard approaching long before it appears on radar. Urban myth. They’re loud, check out youtube, but not THAT loud.

Anyway, the Russians could be probing us with Swordfish biplanes & still present a threat. Our defenses have been thoroughly compromised by this administration.


47 posted on 06/11/2014 10:13:57 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Tailgunner Joe

You poke the bear, he pokes back. Very simple if you understand the Russian psyche. This is the bears response to deploying B2’s to England. Just letting you know, if those B2’s kill any Russians, the bear will kill Californians.


48 posted on 06/11/2014 10:24:05 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Oooooh. Another incident where obamass could draw another red line.


50 posted on 06/12/2014 4:19:30 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Yet, Americans will seriously consider a Democrat, likely the consistent failure Hillary, for President in 2016.


51 posted on 06/12/2014 4:39:33 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: PastorBooks

The nuclear triad. Subs, planes and ICBMs. Between the three enough warheads should be able to get through to cause severe damage.

Heck one nuke hitting a populated area will disrupt our lives for a few years.


52 posted on 06/12/2014 5:41:39 AM PDT by USAF80
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

They don’t have to get that close. The Russians have some long range cruise missiles. They can fire from distance. Our fighters might be able to get the missiles inbound but the launch platforms will be too far away to intercept.


53 posted on 06/12/2014 5:43:58 AM PDT by USAF80
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To: Intolerant in NJ

I saw one in Charlotte NC once.


54 posted on 06/12/2014 5:46:58 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: SkyDancer

Indeed.

They shot down a Korean Air 747 that strayed over Soviet airspace in the 1980’s.

Jean Kirpatrick called them liars in front of the UN General Assembly.


55 posted on 06/12/2014 6:06:48 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Twice in the month of May, my wife and I were on Bodega Bay beaches in Northern California.

During both day trips, a hot Air Force jet was scrambled from probably Travis AFB, and went over us at a very low altitude and then out over the Pacific in a WSW direction until it went out sight.

We haven’t seen nor heard anything like that, since the months after 9/11. Friends, who were in that area at different times in the past two months, saw and heard one of our jets being scrambled over the area.


56 posted on 06/12/2014 6:14:03 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obozo will not divert resources from his war on Americans to help our Veterans!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Go up and shoot them down. Period.


57 posted on 06/12/2014 7:37:08 AM PDT by jagusafr (the American Trinity (Liberty, In G0D We Trust, E Pluribus Unum))
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To: AppyPappy
...could dispatch the Planes of Fame Museum's F-86 outta Chino next time...


58 posted on 06/12/2014 8:08:17 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Intolerant in NJ

I doubt any urban dwellers in California even noticed, except of course, the Marines in the south.


59 posted on 06/12/2014 1:03:17 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
“At that range they could fire off stand off weapons and destroy every major city in California.”

Yeah - they mentioned cruise missiles in the article and that took me aback. I'm thinking “bombs” and “50 miles” - well, that might not be too terrible, but cruise missiles....

I wonder if we have the capability like in the movies where our fighters can say “they are arming the missiles, 15 seconds to launch”.

I imagine any “squashing like a baby seal” would be done after the missiles are launched?

60 posted on 06/12/2014 1:11:35 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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