Posted on 09/27/2021 5:23:40 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
The Russian Air Force scrambled three fighter jets to escort a U.S. Air Force bomber away from Russian airspace Sunday at an undisclosed location over the Pacific Ocean, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency reported.
“[A]ir defense radars on duty in the Eastern Military Region on Sunday spotted an air target over the Pacific Ocean that was approaching Russia’s airspace,” Russia’s National Defense Command Center told Russian media on September 26.
“In order to identify and escort the foreign plane, three Sukhoi-35S fighter planes of the Eastern Military Region’s air defense were scrambled,” the command center said in a statement to TASS.
“The fighters’ crews identified the target as a strategic B-52H bomber of the US Air Force and escorted it over the Pacific Ocean. There were no violations of Russia’s state border or dangerous proximity of planes in the air,” the statement read.
The Russian fighter jets “strictly followed the international rules of using airspace” and returned to base after ensuring “the US plane moved away from the Russian border,” according to the command center.
Russia’s Eastern Military Region is a vast district that includes the country’s easternmost territories. Many of these territories lie along the North Pacific Ocean, such as the Russian-administered Kuril Islands, which are claimed by Japan.
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Yeah - this sounds more like a “friendly” escort to make sure the bomber stayed outside the border.
Should happen every time the Russians meddle around Alaskan air space.
Um, *derp*.
Well I guess we should be glad that Biden and Milley didn’t order them to leave the B-52 behind.
Biden (0bama) Austin and Milley sent it in revenge for ‘Putin getting Trump Elected’, but the bomber crew chickened out, and there was no Slim Pickens to ride the bomb down anyway.
General Milley needs to buy new TOMTOM GPS units for his newly woke military.
Biden and Deep Swamp Shills attempting to provoke the Russians for publicity purposes.
Seems like Russia is interested in NOT starting WW3. As to this bunch in the White House, who knows?
I’m old enough to remember when Orange Man Bad was going to start WW3! Now we have children running the military, foreign policy and an illegal government and women will be drafted to fight and die in the next Rat war.
From the article:
“ “[T]wo Russian Su-27 Flanker pilots intercepted a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber that was conducting routine operations in the Black Sea over international waters,” the U.S. Air Forces in Europe stated in a press release issued August 28, 2020.
“The Russian pilots flew in an unsafe and unprofessional manner while crossing within 100 feet of the nose of the B-52 multiple times at co-altitude and while in afterburner causing turbulence and restricting the B-52’s ability to maneuver,” the statement read.”
That’s one of the best scenes in movie history.
Doesn’t mean it happened
I remember when Ronald Ray-Gun was going to start WW III with SDI..
They only shot down unarmed civilian airliners that get close to their airspace.
Or, is this a ‘shiny object’ of show of power by the Biden admin for their clusterf*ck in Afghan. So folks will think Biden means business.
I find this article suspect. Surely our air defense knows when they’ve intruded, gone into wrong territory. Unless inexperienced men were at the helm.
I find it very suspect.
More importanly, were our fly boys,gals, he, she, or its vaxxed? Inquiring minds want to know.
Yup the title is all messed up, the body of the article says “There were no violations of Russia’s state border”
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