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Russia sends nuclear-capable bombers on patrol over Belarus
AP ^
| 18 December 2021
| VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Posted on 12/19/2021 1:39:49 AM PST by blueplum
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia sent a pair of nuclear-capable long-range bombers to patrol the skies over Belarus on Saturday, a mission intended to underline close defense ties between the two allies amid tensions with the West.
The Russian Defense Ministry said the two Tu-22M3 strategic strike bombers practiced “performing joint tasks with the Belarusian air force and air defense.” Su-30 fighter jets that Russia has supplied to Belarus escorted the bombers.
Saturday’s four-hour patrol marked Russia’s third such mission in Belarus since last month...
...The Belarusian leader wouldn’t elaborate on what kind of Russian weapons Belarus would be willing to accommodate, but noted that the ex-Soviet nation has carefully preserved the necessary military infrastructure dating back to the time of the USSR....
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: belarus; bombers; coldwar2; communism; poland; putinsbootlickers; russia; russiasucks; sovietunion; ukraine
somebody needs to put saltpeter in that wheat we sell Russia
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posted on
12/19/2021 1:39:49 AM PST
by
blueplum
To: blueplum
It takes a lot more than that to scare a Russian.
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posted on
12/19/2021 1:44:15 AM PST
by
period end of story
(Give me a firm spot, and I will move the world.)
To: blueplum
Who thought this was newsworthy?
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posted on
12/19/2021 2:05:39 AM PST
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
To: blueplum
To: blueplum
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posted on
12/19/2021 2:07:25 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: higgmeister
well, it’ was this, or “Drakeo the Ruler ‘is STABBED in the neck at LA festival’
Russia poking a finger in Biden’s eye again seemed the more informative of the two
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posted on
12/19/2021 2:22:58 AM PST
by
blueplum
("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
To: blueplum
Well, I cannot help but think of the number of times Russian bombers must have flown over Belarus when nobody blinked an eye. Hundreds, hundreds? Anyone, anyone? Bueller, Bueller?
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posted on
12/19/2021 2:48:24 AM PST
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
To: blueplum
Belarus...Belarus...will you do the Fandango!
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posted on
12/19/2021 2:55:17 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: blueplum
To: blueplum
Russia and Belarus are in talks about merging - this is part of the Russian drive to re-establish the old Kivan Rus empire which include Ukraine up to the Polish and Hungarian borders.
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posted on
12/19/2021 6:22:22 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: TexasGunLover
More sequelae from the Afghanistan debacle.
To: blueplum
Russia sent a pair of nuclear-capable long-range bombers Well whoop-de-do! Gen-u-wine "Nuclear capable"!
"US aircraft capable of delivering this weapon (B-61 gravity, or free-fall, bomb.) are the A-4, A-6, A-7, AV-8B, F-4, F-15, F-16, F-18, F-111, and presumably the F-117 stealth fighter."
The Mighty A-4 Skyhawk Was the U.S. Navy’s Best Little Bomber
The A-4 had a wingspan of 27 feet.
To: higgmeister
The Defense Minister's comments about Belaraus preserving its Soviet era military infrastructure are interesting.
Belarus formerly had 80+ Soviet SS-25 Sickle missiles with warheads and an unknown number of tactical nuclear weapons placed on its territory.
These were removed from Belaraus in 1995-96, and their stock of enriched uranium was removed in 2010.
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posted on
12/19/2021 1:42:59 PM PST
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
To: blueplum
One crappy very OLD design “nuclear capable” Soviet era P.O.S. bomber. The service record on the 497 built units is off the page bad. So whoop whoop— thanks for whomever here listed the number of aircraft designs in the US which are gravity bomb nuclear capable and a whole lot more.
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posted on
12/19/2021 7:12:06 PM PST
by
John S Mosby
( Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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