Posted on 03/30/2022 11:42:37 AM PDT by knighthawk
Two Russian planes that violated Swedish airspace earlier this month were equipped with nuclear weapons, it has emerged.
The flyover near the island of Gotland on March 2 was a deliberate act designed to intimidate Sweden, according to Swedish news channel TV4 Nyheterna.
A total of four planes had taken off from the Russian air base of Kaliningrad.
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Sweden is intimidated by all its new citizens.
I have some friends in Sweden. Sweden is not aligned with NATO but there are many now who debate whether they should join. Some fear joining NATO would provoke Russia, others fear not joining NATO leaves them defenseless.
Sweden has been sort of the Inspector Clouseau of Europe for many decades - always on the hunt for Russian Submarines but almost never seem to find one.
BS
Swedenistan has bigger issues than Russia.
Seems counterproductive to threaten Sweden like this. NATO existed to counter an expansionist USSR. If Russia is going to threaten nuclear attacks then this only breathes new life into NATO. As usual Russia continues it’s centuries old foreign policies which are similar to a bull in a china shop.
Two Russian planes that violated Swedish airspace earlier this month were equipped with nuclear weapons, it has emerged.
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Sure Jan.
Daily Mail propaganda is always good for a laugh.
LOL.. this is BS
I agree, why put nukes on a fighter? Bomber maybe.
Besides too much risk in losing the nukes if you fly over other nations.
Looks like those countries got the point.
‘Putin had threatened military action if Sweden or Finland joined NATO”
Let’s not be too critical of Putin, there must be bio-labs in Sweden, Finland that he’s saving us from.
I don’t get it, how they claim they know they had nukes on 2 planes? Is it really that easy to tell?
Exactly. Sounds like Russian disinformation. They’d probably be afraid the nuke would fall off the airplane.
Air space, or ADIZ?
Could be Russian disinformation, but it is more likely to be the Waily Fail being the Waily Fail. They’ve generated crap worse than this for decades.
“I agree, why put nukes on a fighter? Bomber maybe.”
I believe the article said the alleged nukes were on the two attack aircraft, not on the fighters.
Emerged from where? Under the soil, beneath a rock, from the ocean?
More supermarket tabloid reporting.
“Air space, or ADIZ?”
The ADIZ would probably begin at Kaliningrad’s Baltic shoreline (i.e., once the planes were wheels up, they’d be within the ADIZ; if not Sweden’s, then Poland’s or Lithuania’s; but I assume Sweden’s ADIZ includes the entire Baltic Sea). I think they said the aircraft flew over a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea, so that would be Swedish air space.
Modern nukes are not that easy to detect.
After about 20ft plutonium is hard to measure. Especially if it’s wrapped in a heavy metal.
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