Posted on 04/25/2016 2:38:58 AM PDT by Leaning Right
Russia should be warned that its dangerous flybys of U.S. ships and planes could be met by force, President Barack Obama's nominee as the next NATO and U.S. European Command commander said Thursday.
"Sir, I believe that should be known -- yes," Army Gen. Curtis M. "Mike" Scaparrotti said when asked by Sen. John McCain whether Russia should be told that the U.S. would take action if American lives were endangered.
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or not
Egypt and the GCC are the way forward
This thing about Russia buzzing our ships lacks one important detail.
The Russians do their playing around with their transponders active which means, on our radars, they are showing IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) long before they can be identified visually as being Russian.
They would signal as friend.
They know the risk of turning their transponders off and approaching our ships.
I think I better begin building a bomb shelter. The inmates are running the asylum.
Try screening the ship with some cheap drones, and if the Russians want to fly their multimillion dollar planes into thousand dollar drones to see who gets the better of the exchange, dollar-for-dollar, let them.
The late Col. David Hackworth, one the most highly-decorated soldiers U.S. Army history, was also one of the most vociferous critics of McCain decades ago. I had personal (email) correspondence with Hack in the late 1990’s and he was singly-focused on talking about was a dangerous, war-mongering, treacherous person McCain was and how if he becomes President we’ll all screwed.
“Why is McCain always so ready to go to war.”
McInsane represents the MIC Eisenhower warned us about.
How does a nonallied aircraft signal `friend’ with its IFF unless it has the codes to do so? Sounds like spoofing.
The plane should have been shot down, the commander should be removed from command.
Another line in the sand (water).
Another Obama General, career over country.
>What was a US Navy ship doing in the Baltic Sea?
The ship was participating in a joint drill with Polish military.
“Gen.Blather, I was in the navy during that time, over in that part of the world (Med deployments on a carrier) and never saw anything like that, ever. I don’t buy it. Perhaps on some smaller unattached ships that was possible, but I think we would have gotten wind of it.”
I don’t know if this sailor was on the USS Liberty at the time of the Syrian incidents related to me. He was, however, on the USS Liberty when it was attacked by Israeli jets.
Speaking of small and unattached, his version of the story is that the Liberty was supposed to meet an escort ship but the rendezvous never happened and they continued on station alone. The jets appeared and circled the ship several times for some time before they attacked. I gather, and it has been many years since we knew each other, the Liberty was often alone and unattached. He said the jets took out their communications on the first pass. They had a parade flag which they hung over the side. He believed it was impossible for the Israelis not to know the Liberty was a US ship. At the time he was able to give me several points from his observations that differed from the official accounts. So, yes, small and unattached.
Well...that would be an entirely different ball of wax if he was on the USS Liberty and that happened. I could see the possibility of that, but not a warship.
If Korcom jets had buzzed the USS Pueblo or USS Banner in that fashion you described in those days, I wouldn’t rule that out. Our enemies knew what those ships were and that they were unarmed and unaccompanied.
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