Posted on 02/19/2015 9:42:37 AM PST by McGruff
At least one of the two Russian Bear bombers that were escorted away from the Cornish coast entered British airspace, a witness has claimed, contrary to the official version of events.
Bamford’s driving instructor, Claire Brazil, from St Austell, said: “I am not an expert but they did look out of the ordinary for Cornish airspace. We leant up to have a look, they were definitely inland, not over the coast. Whether what we saw was the Bear, I don’t know, but it was inland.”
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Well, it is not like the State Department is not encouraging them to start a war.
Putin has the same Obama ‘Yeah, and what are you going to do about it?’ attitude.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=69ATnys2gRk
2:30
Watch an An-22 1950s strategic freighter, departing from former Soviet AFB in Germany circa 1994.
Same powerplant. The sound is amazing, isn’t it?
Shoot it down.
Tell the Russians there was no time to tell if it was friendly or not.
Next time, keep your planes well offshore.
Shoot it down.
What with ?????
Putin is playing with us.
We barely have any planes, ships or army left. We are defenceless to all intents and purposes against the size of the Russian forces..our useless fools who run us, have ruined what little was left of our armed forces....while pissing away billions in foreign aid....as a Brit I bow my head in shame !!!!!
The Tu-95/142 Bear is actually a direct evolutionary descendent of the B-29 Superfortress. Three Superforts that diverted to Russia following bombing missions over Japan were interred and reverse-engineered to produce the Tu-4 Bull. Which was the evolutionary starting point for the Bear.
70 years ago, WW2 really ended the British Empire.
I fear the same fate awaits us in the next global conflict.
What replaces you and me, the world will come to regret.
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