Great Falls, Montana hosts Russian plane surveilling military

ABCMontana ^ | April 4, 2019 | Staff

[LucyT]

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP)

[LucyT]

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[Thank You Rush]

COLLUSION - needs investigating!!!

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[hoagy62]

I’m sorry, but this bit of news disturbs me greatly.

I know we’re supposed to be “friends” with Russia now, but do you know what’s in Great Falls? Malmstrom AFB...home to one of the wings of our nuclear missile strike force! I don’t want them within 500 miles of those missiles!

[PIF]

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[SaveFerris]

Sounds like quite the Global Initiative. I remember when this got started.

Maybe some day we will be sharing nuclear weapons with other countries!

I suppose we park what we want seen out in the open and other things might be in underground bases.

Oh darn, tinfoil hat again....

[Rebelbase]

Just for fun we should have some mock ups of sci-fi aircraft scattered among the bases being photographed by Ivan.

[Buffalo Head]

Yours is the only post so far that makes sense. Satellite imagery has made aircraft photograph obsolete anyway.

[shanover]

WTF would the USA sign this BS?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The Billings Gazette has photos of the aircraft here. I swear I saw this plane at the Spokane Airport on the afternoon of Monday March 25. It was parked in an out of the way part of the airport, but clearly visible from the road entering and leaving the airport. I wanted to stop and take a pic, but there was no place to pull off the road. It had the high wing like a C5A Galaxy, but wasn't painted in Air Force colors. It also didn't have the high rear horizontal stabilizer that the Galaxy has. At the time, I distinctly thought "that looks like a Russian freighter."

I just found this on Reddit: "If anyone has time, head over to Spokane International Airport. There’s a massive Russian cargo jet parked there, it only comes once a year, and is by far the biggest plane that flies out of that airport. Hurry, it’s leaving in a couple days! Antonov An-124 Ruslan"

Pilot37 on Reddit wrote: "Best place to see it? Flightline Boulevard, 47°37'31"N 117°31'09"W . Why is it here? You see, Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is currently their newest plane in production, and it has a lot of orders. It’s being assembled in Everett, Washington, but the parts are made across the country. So they’ve gotta transport the parts to the factory somehow. So, they use their Boeing Dreamlifters, (not to be confused with the Dreamliner) to carry the parts there. These are huge cargo Boeing 747s modified with loads more space to carry parts. But sometimes their 4 Dreamlifters are not enough, and they have to ask Russia’s волга-depner (Volga-Depnr) Airline to lend some Antonov An-124 Ruslans to them. This one landed at Spokane to await a cargo transfer because Everett is getting too crowded, since just 2 weeks ago, Everett started passenger flights in and out of their airport instead of just Boeing test flights.

[brooklin]

“WTF would the USA sign this BS?”

Because we fly over their bases also.

[Navy Patriot]

Great Falls, Montna hosts Russian plane surveilling military

All the military and state dept. types will tell you that this is by treaty agreement and routine, but that's a lie.

It's just so some Ruskies can get some decent steaks and a great vacation.

[PLMerite]

I saw an An-124 at Farnborough in 1988. Big sucker. It was providing support for the two MiG-29s that were there.

[House Atreides]

“WTF would the USA sign this BS?”
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Because we fly over their bases also.
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Exactly! This is DECADES OLD “News”.

[vmpolesov]

I saw that plane in SLC in 1995. It said’Volga Dnepr Cargo Company’

[I Drive Too Fast]

I was stationed at Malmstrom AFB from February 1977 to February 1979. Yes, I know what went on there.

[BBB333]

“I’m sorry, but this bit of news disturbs me greatly.

I know we’re supposed to be “friends” with Russia now, but do you know what’s in Great Falls? Malmstrom AFB...home to one of the wings of our nuclear missile strike force! I don’t want them within 500 miles of those missiles!”

Have you ever been to Great Falls, MT?

The two airports are virtually ONE.

Because of that MY local airport, is the ‘second’ busiest airport in MT, when it’s the busiest commercial airport by far...

BTW, don’t be concerned wet have MASSIVE firepower here in MT without our military bases...

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[BBB333]

“...Antonov An-124 R...”

Uuuge suckers!

There used to be one that flew into SLC monthly for humanitarian supplies — it always had to park WAY OUT on the far taxi-way (near where the Delta maintenance facilities are) because it was so BIG!

[DesertRhino]

It flew over Area 51 a few days ago. It’s really no biggie. In exchange, we get to fly one over Russia.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Yep! Malmstrom - Strategic Air Command