Posted on 05/12/2018 2:04:00 AM PDT by BeadCounter
A pair of U.S. Air Force stealth fighter jets intercepted two Russian nuclear-capable bombers Friday morning off the coast of Alaska, a spokesman for NORAD (North American Aeorospace Defense Command) told Fox News.
The approach by the two Tupolev Tu-95 Russian "Bear" aircraft marked the first time in just over a year that Russian bombers had flown that close to U.S. territory.
The Russian bombers came within 55 miles of Alaska's west coast, north of the Aleutian Islands, but remained in international airspace, the spokesman, Canadian Army Maj. Andrew Hennessy said.
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We do.
The “Buck Turgidsons” want us all to be “Buck Turgid” about Vladimir Putin and Russia and I say that’s a “Buck Turd” of an idea.
“No, I am not advocating getting rid of bombers. Just saying these incursions are political posturing.”.....
Personally, I would rather see the internet gone, IMO it’s existance has NOT been a good thing for numerous reasons.
“No, I am not advocating getting rid of bombers. Just saying these incursions are political posturing.”.....
Personally, I would rather see the Internet gone, IMO it's existence has NOT been a good thing for numerous reasons.
“Bear alert”. For the USAF veterans this was a common occurrence.
There’s no need......we have Democrats and RINOs to collapse our economy
They do that all the time, I was stationed at King Salmon in 1979 and they will fly just inside the ADIZ and we would scramble they are just checking scramble time. We also fly KC135 out of Fairbanks and do the same thing to them. I have actually seen Russian chasing the KC135 back across the ADIZ on radar. Cat and mouse games. Lot of those radar sites are civilian manned now and the signal is sent to Cheyenne Mountain.
I was stationed in Cold Bay 1975/76 in radar ops, and I saw the same thing, too.
I still remember one of your King Salmon jet jockeys bubble checking us in an F4. Scared the crap out of everyone who didn't know what was happening.
Psyke! I am not touching you!
Cold Bay, that was a lonely assignment....LOL We at least had females at our site...We used the old Sadie system back then and it was old. I was part of the frozen chosen, scope dope till the end
Hey Vlad. Test all you want but don’t cross borders. This president is NOT zer0bama.
The Russians were just coming to deliver Trump some more collusion.
Don’t tell Mueller.
The site needs hits? What better way than to create controversy out of thin air?
Done all the time by both sides. Have been for decades.
But as a fun game, count up all of the people on this thread that act like this is some “serious” thing.
As per Gen Jack D Ripper.
Wait for it. The CNN will report it as the Russians passing info to US planes to help Trump in ‘20.
This has been going on for about 70 years by both sides. It is apparently good training for both sides. The “bears” probe and our armed fighters intercept the “enemy”. I have seen many pictures of the crews of both planes friendly waving at each other. Of course these events could turn deadly, but the Bears would quickly become extinct.
Oh but so did we. Cold Bay was picked in 1976 to be the first remote Alaskan radar site where they began sending females. My first six months there was before this happened, and the last six was after. I could have written a PhD thesis on psychology just observing the changes in male behavior before and after the change. And oh do I have stories....
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