Posted on 05/16/2021 3:20:00 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
More than 2,000 soldiers parachuting from 20 aircrafts landed in darkness just miles from Vladimir Putin's borders in Estonia, Romania and Bulgaria during a secret part of the sensitive war games, called Swift Response. Russian forces had tracked the planes - which included six US C-17s carrying 200 British Paras - with interception units on the Baltic border. They then mounted a mass jamming operation aimed at forcing commanders to abandon the exercise.
But the effort failed when the US deployed three special C-130 Hercules "air interdiction" aircraft , codenamed "Ghostrider" and packed with directional infrared countermeasures and a team of cyber experts capable of jamming any computer network.
The Russian electronic attack took place as the multi-national force joined a larger Nato exercise, Defender Europe, which boasts 30,000 troops from 26 nations and aims to reinforce the Baltic States.
Last night one senior US military source said:"The Russians are very capable and are constantly testing their systems. Their aim was to shut down the link between the ground and the aircraft which would have forced us to abandon the jump, but they failed.
"We put three EW (electronic warfare) aircraft in the air ahead of the stream and were able to target the network attack and shut them down instead.
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Would Putin invade the Baltics?
In this case, their role is colonial policemen for the ruling class.
Imagine of China were conducting war games in Tijuana
“just miles from Vladimir Putin’s borders in Estonia, Romania and Bulgaria “
Where exactly in Romania and Bulgaria is “just miles” from the Russian border? I suggest the author of this look at a map some time.
“ Their aim was to shut down the link between the ground and the aircraft which would have forced us to abandon the jump, but they failed.”
Yeah, sure they failed. If this was actual war, the Russians, basically on their home turf, would have encouraged a jump and just picked your guys off on their way down.
Lithuania.
The Baltics.
It’s a long walk from Bulgaria to the Baltics.
“directional infrared countermeasures”. That’s a new on me, anyone care to enlighten an old K3?
"Paratroopers, Vito, would be ashamed if someone was ta set fire ta dem, eh?" Wouldn't want to be sailing into WWIII in a slow, loud, radar-blob packed like a can of tuna. Just smoke the airbases first.
Fancy flairs? Sounds like a British War News propaganda reel after the cartoon but before the movie.
Baltics, Balkans,... I’m surprised MSN could at least find the right continent.
More like fired S-400s at the C-17s.
The above is very unlikely. Can we really trust https://twitter.com/marcogiann/status/1393864160606396417 ?
WTH is this? If the female news voice from 1984 movie was to read this it would sound like it fit perfectly with the war against Eastasia.
Sounds like a plan made up by Susan Rice and a senile old degenerate fart.
Hell just 1 EA-6B could shut down the entire eastern seaboard.
The Israelis used something similar to shut down the entire Syrian air defense network when they took out the secret nuclear site a few years ago.
In the past, the Russian actions coupled with their recent Colonial pipeline action would be an act of war. Now just shrugged off.
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