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Russian Fighter Jet Nearly Collides with U.S. Spy Jet Over Europe
Washington Free Beacon ^
| April 10, 2015
Posted on 04/11/2015 5:04:01 AM PDT by Paid_Russian_Troll
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To: Paid_Russian_Troll
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posted on
04/11/2015 5:07:12 AM PDT
by
mrs. a
(It's a short life but a merry one...)
To: Paid_Russian_Troll
I’ll say this about your screen name: at least you’re honest.
CC
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posted on
04/11/2015 5:09:02 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(Sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof)
To: Paid_Russian_Troll
“a U.S. RC-135U flying a routine route in international airspace was intercepted by a Russian Su-27 Flanker in an unsafe and unprofessional manner”
Man, that surely brings back some old memories...
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posted on
04/11/2015 5:09:46 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: Paid_Russian_Troll
Testing the waters?
Just as on the playground a little pushing & shoving to see if there is a response?
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posted on
04/11/2015 5:10:24 AM PDT
by
Tupelo
(I feel more like Philip Nolan by the day)
To: Paid_Russian_Troll
The Rooskie has always been an envious, suspicious critter, preferring a dictator or some other “strongman” to do his thinking.
Pity. It has always been thus.
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posted on
04/11/2015 5:14:59 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
To: tcrlaf
Memories of what? Your service to the Rodina?
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posted on
04/11/2015 5:17:10 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: tcrlaf
Something tells me that the pilots would have landed in Russian territory and handed the RC-135U over to the Russians just like they did in 2001 with the P3 had the Russian pilot ‘connected’.
/s
(propaganda-ping)
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posted on
04/11/2015 5:17:11 AM PDT
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus-)
To: Paid_Russian_Troll
Has Obama apologized yet?
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posted on
04/11/2015 5:17:30 AM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
One could say that about many nations. Freedom and liberty are the exception in history.
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posted on
04/11/2015 5:21:11 AM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: PghBaldy
No nation in history has embraced thugsterism quite like the Roos...
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posted on
04/11/2015 5:23:30 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
To: tcrlaf
I was on the USS Kennedy back in 1976 and was up on the flight deck sleeping in the cockpit of my plane (I was a Plane Captain in A-7 Corsairs) when we had a Tomcat go over the side with a Phoenix missile attached, right under the nose of a Soviet cruiser shadowing us. As I recall, we were about 500 miles west of Scotland.
This was a big deal, as not only was it the first Tomcat lost with a Phoenix on it, the Soviets saw it and knew exactly where it was.
The Tomcat went over the side near the waist cat (faulty fuel control, as I recall) on the port side, and the Soviet cruiser was about the 2 o'clock position off our starboard bow probably a few miles away, and when the plane went over the side, they poured on the steam to cut across our bow to get a better look a the action they couldn't see, and one of our destroyers cut right across their bow blocking their path.
Such were the state of affairs in the Cold War...we used to have Soviet trawlers trailing us, and when you looked through the binoculars at them, there seemed like 10 sailors on there with binoculars just looking back at you.
One time, when my plane was tied down near the fantail, me and one of my buddies pulled down our pants to moon them. We thought for sure there would have been some response, laughing or such, but...they just stood unmoving, watching through their binoculars.
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posted on
04/11/2015 5:36:59 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
To: rlmorel
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posted on
04/11/2015 5:43:59 AM PDT
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: Paid_Russian_Troll
We need to send up F-35s pronto to deal with this. Sure, they don’t have guns, but they can maybe ram the russkies, just as the russkies used to ram luftwaffe with their Polikarpov’s.
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posted on
04/11/2015 5:50:53 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: Paid_Russian_Troll
I used to fly on this bird. No shock here. At least he didn’t hit it like that Chinese test pilot.
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posted on
04/11/2015 6:03:35 AM PDT
by
Azeem
(There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
To: Paid_Russian_Troll
A defense official said the Russian fighter jet flew within 20 feet of the unarmed reconnaissance jet...20 feet sounds like a stretch but something is gonna happen here someday if things don't get back to the way they were before this Ukrainian coup.
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posted on
04/11/2015 6:04:00 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(Ask yourself, what would Rick Grimes do?)
To: rlmorel
I was on the FDR (WW2 era flat top )-1976
we mooned a cruiser doing high speed passes
close to the carrier- AND mooned them-
must have been an unofficial NAVY WIDE greeting for
the Russki’s!
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posted on
04/11/2015 6:06:19 AM PDT
by
mj1234
To: Sirius Lee
Only if the f-35 can go fast enough to catch the flanker... Which it can’t.
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posted on
04/11/2015 6:16:17 AM PDT
by
Bulwyf
To: Paid_Russian_Troll
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posted on
04/11/2015 6:20:35 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
To: Azeem
You mean that Chinese pilot called “Wong Way”?
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posted on
04/11/2015 6:40:14 AM PDT
by
Patriot777
(Imagine....that we could see Obama being hauled out of the White House kicking and screaming?)
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