Why did this take 10 days to reach the public
By The Troll On June 27th, 2012Russia has been holding war games on our northern border and had to be intercepted as they violated our airspace with a Nuclear Bomber Air wing.
More reason why Obama MUST BE DEFEATED. This is OUTRAGEOUS!
RUSSIAN NUCLEAR BOMBERS TEST U.S. AIR DEFENSES IN ARCTIC WAR GAMES DURING CHILLY OBAMA-PUTIN SUMMIT
Russian strategic nuclear bombers threatened U.S. airspace near Alaska earlier this month and F-15 jets responded by intercepting the aircraft taking part in large-scale arctic war games, according to defense officials.
The Russian war games began the same day President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a frosty summit meeting in Mexico June 18.
The Obama administration made no protest of the bomber intrusions, according to the officials, in line with its conciliatory “reset” policy of seeking warmer ties with Moscow.About 30 strategic nuclear bombers and support aircraft took part in the war games that continued through June 25. The aircraft included Tu-95MS Bear H and Tu-160 Blackjack nuclear-capable bombers, along with Il-76 refueling tankers, A-50 airborne warning and control aircraft, and Su-27 and MiG-31 jet fighters. Some 200 troops also took part in the Russian Strategic Aviation forces exercise.
U.S. and Canadian F-15 and F-16 jets were involved in the intercepts that took place near the Air Identification Zone surrounding Alaskan airspace over the northern Pacific.
The exercises are part of increasingly aggressive Russian military activities in the arctic region in both the eastern and western hemispheres, which have created security worries among governments in northern Europe and Canada.
One official said the failure to publicize the threatening bomber maneuvers might have been related to Obama’s overheard promise in March to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev of “more flexibility.”
According to the defense officials, the arctic bomber exercises are part of Russian efforts to assert control over vast areas of the arctic circle that are said to contain large mineral and oil deposits.
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a former Alaska North American Aerospace Defense commander, said the Russian exercises should be a concern.
“The Russians continue to exercise our air defense identification zone, which shows Mr. Putin loves to let President Obama know that they still have global capability,” McInerney said in an interview. “So much for reset.”
McInerney also said the Obama administration kept the encounter between the bombers and U.S. fighters secret because “they obviously don’t want the world to know that the exercise was done deliberately to coincide with the Obama-Putin summit.”
Obama and Putin met in Los Cabos, Mexico June 18 in what aides described later as a “businesslike” encounter. The two leaders, however, were shown in video and photos as unsmiling and displaying a cool demeanor toward each other.
Russia’s government and military have threatened preemptive military attacks on future U.S. missile defense sites in Europe as part of a Russian propaganda campaign against those defenses. Moscow views U.S. and NATO missile defenses as threatening its strategic missiles.
Defense officials said Russian bomber exercises highlight Moscow’s targeting of the U.S. missile defense base at Fort Greely, Alaska, one of two major ground-based interceptor bases that are part of a limited integrated missile defense system against North Korean and possibly future Chinese or Russian missiles.
Additionally, the bomber exercises raised concerns that Russia was simulating cruise missile strikes aimed at disrupting U.S. oil pipelines in Alaska. Currently, the state’s Trans-Alaska pipeline delivers more than 11 percent of U.S. oil.
“This is OUTRAGEOUS!”
Ha ha.
//had to be intercepted as they violated our airspace with a Nuclear Bomber Air wing.//
Nobody violated US airspace.
Tyoical right wing shouting class trying to blow up a nothing story into some kind of major international incident
The Russians do this same thing every couple years just to see if any one is paying attention
What is the source of this article? The spelling is too good to be Troll’s.
The washington free beacon Mahons
http://freebeacon.com/the-bear-at-the-door/
Ha Ha Pete if Putin is willing to threaten Obama do you think he is not a threat to your pathetic military. The whole thing was staged and timed to F**k with his Majesty when Putin and him were talking. Obama is putting us all in jeopardy.
It was all showmanship, the point is it worked. This amateur even managed to keep it quite for 10 days
Troll -
Stop quivering and come out from under the stairs.
Obama is not putting you all in jeopardy. There’s more than enough to attack him on without you blowing up little things over which he has no control.
The Russians do this all the time to keep their intel current. They’re looking at how long it takes for air defences to wake up, that kind of thing. It’s standard. You spy on us for that info, and I certainly hope our spooks know everything about you lot.
Given that your military bases are all around Russia, you’re in no position to complain when they rattle your cage in return.
Troll – thanks, I found it when searchign and saw it was standard conservative internet musings. By the way the editor went to Columbia University!
Pete Moore
If this forumn had an upvote button, you sir would have one
What does Troll think Obama should have done. Taken the Kenny Everett option ?
I suppose one can see Russia and its planes from Alaska.
You betcha!
So running bombers right to the edge of our airspace while he was having a meeting with the President was just a coincidence, not an intimidation tactic. Especialy right after saying if you deploy anti missile capabilities they will preemptively strike them. Just the week before.
And Obama kept the whole thing quite for 10 days because it was no big deal, just Republican talking points nothing to see here.
What a pack of maroons, you guys want to play some poker?
It’s the stupidity personified by your comments above that have led to the US being the only military the west has, you’ve all become French, have you finished lining the streets in your cities with trees so the invading armies can march in shade?
Well normally I’d conclude that Troll is a Tom Clancy fan, but for this part “U.S. and Canadian F-15 and F-16 jets were involved in the intercepts….”
Anyone with knowledge of military hardware would know that Canada operates neither type
btw the bear bombers must be well obsolete by now, they’re propellor ffs! lol
Troll, calm down mate. It’s like PM says above, all the major powers perform this exercise regularly. The UK press has regularly reported about Russian military planes darting in and out of our airspace, for the sole purpose of testing our reactions. They want to collect data about how fast our military computers react. And no doubt, the USA does exactly the same thing in Russian airspace, all the time. Now and again, we catch the other side “at it” red handed, and we make a show of expelling the odd diplomat on charges of spying. It’s really not something to get so worked up about, Troll.
too late Tom, the silo doors are opening…..
Troll -
“So running bombers right to the edge of our airspace while he was having a meeting with the President was just a coincidence, not an intimidation tactic.”
Are you that easily intimidated? I doubt it. Such as exercise would have happened anyway, and if there’s any significance in the timing then it’s the Russians being cheeky. You might think they don’t have a sense of humour but they do. Russians love to be mischievous. They were probably having a giggle while it was going on.
“And Obama kept the whole thing quite for 10 days because it was no big deal, just Republican talking points nothing to see here.”
It really is no big deal. Since 1945, to choose an arbitrary date, there have been thousands of such US-Russian contacts. On the thread below, Phantom recounts the time he was buzzed by a pair of MiGs in the Black Sea. Just as well US Navy commanders are cooler than you! The Black Sea is awfully close to Russia, by the way.
For further details of outrageous invasions of airspace, I refer you to Gary Powers.
Even the article itself (bravely citing unidentified defense department officials) doesn’t say the Russians actually violated our airspace.
Look the Ivans and us Yanks and our allies have engaged in plenty of war games, for decades. This is nothing new.
And the crackpot retired General cited by that internet site Thomas McInerny is a Fox News contributor of known rightwing beliefs (he’s a birther, believes the Russians/Chinese and French smuggled the WMD out of Iraq, etc).
Mahons, the owner of this blogsite believed that Iraq was stuffed with state of the art WMDs ready to launch at europe at a moment’s notice. Then when all that turned up was some old chemical agents in vats out of date by about a dozen years, he claimed all the weapony had been moved to syria in the few days before the invasion
So when bullyboy bashir and his wife & family are all hanging by piano wire in a public square and the wmds aren’t found, maybe the finger will point to Iran
This is another inane, GOP hysterical frenzy of nothing important.
Try the bigger picture on for size. Via Casey Research
Daphne, the US really dropped the ball in relation to Australian mines then. Most of theirs is being exploited for the Chinese as far as I know.
Along with most of Africa for every other valuable resource.
Guess we’ve been too busy fighting the endless war on terror, promoting middle eastern democracy and going broke for the past twelve years to pay attention to anything else.
fighting ‘endless wars’ is the definition of lunacy. As for ‘middle eastern democracy’ I won’t even go there lol
The US doesn’t build nuclear reactors.
and he didn’t have to intimidate the US Military only Obama.
BB here is your imaginary Canadian F-16
http://coat.ncf.ca/ARMX/cansec/F-16.htm
and endless war is the perpetual state of mankind
british bernard is 100% correct we do not use or have f 15′s or f 16′s we do however have CF18′s.
And Incidentaly a healthy uranium mining industry
well that’s how it was reported and you better check your nations inventory because it lists f-16s as shown in the link.
the fact that you two wackos are trying to discount a news story with your vast knowledge of military equipment is what’s laughable
wacko? lol I didn’t try to discout your story. I was just pointing out that Canada doesn’t operate either the F-15 or F-16.
E.P. is correct, in fact f-18s are the only fast combat jet type operated by Canada.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_of_the_Royal_Canadian_Air_Force
don’t see it listed here either, and I have an interest in military aviation in general, otherwise I wouldn’t have been so pedantic as to point out your error in the first place
Btw, your link just shows various components/spares, electronics & avionic parts manufactured by canadian aerospace & technology companies for the F-16.
Yes you were BB at least have the decency to be Honest, as for me I can be Honest that according to the Canadians they have no F-16s the story however says that’s what they used.
So your saying that I should “Change” what was printed in the story to match my or your information?
No you can edit facts and other peoples words, me I’ll just put them up for commentary.
ffs stop digging yourself into a hole man…
Troll – You should check stories you put up and be gracious when someone points out the errors. Course that might occupy a lot of your time.
F15s F16s F18s….. what the F does it really matter