Russian Bombers Fly Within 50 Miles of California Coast

[calfzilla]

Were these Russian pilots bodybuilders or power lifters?  Not sure why this is on the G&O

[mr.turbo]

[Straw Man]

You have someone who onviously has it for Obama and these guys keep trying to defend these actions. It's irritating. It's like they don't know right from wrong.

yes, please tell us exactly what Obama did wrong in this situation

I wonder if he was even informed at the time given that they were not in our air space and given that in the last 5 years there have been 50 intercepts of Russian military aircraft entering North American Air Defense Identification Zone which is considered international airspace.

[Stefano]

And what should obama have done? Got into a fighter jet and gone out to intercept them? The stupidity of the OP is once again proven. Its the military's job to handle these details. Russkies tried saber rattling and were intercepted. End of story. Its been happening for years and a number of countries do this to each other. Nothing happens except throwing uninformed retards like coach into a panic and going into his default hate obama mode. Predictable.

Conservatives and liberals are probably the most retarded  people around. Every little thing is a chance to attack the other side. No rational or logical thought - just flat out stupidity.

[Coach is Back!]

I dunno, maybe some are missing the point. Obama, whether you want to admit it or not has made this country weak. No one and I mean NO ONE is afraid of us so much to the point now they taunt us. So you tell me what should have been done.

[Stefano]

I dunno, maybe some are missing the point. Obama, whether you want to admit it or not has made this country weak. No one and I mean NO ONE is afraid of us so much to the point now they taunt us. So you tell me what should have been done.

The only one missing the point is you. What should obama do since you place the blame squarely on him? Send a few jets on a training exercise to russia to retaliate? Demand Putins head on a platter? Light the batsignal? All this taunting has been going on for decades. Every country does it. Do you really think any country is less afraid of the US now than ever before just because of its current president. Bitch please. Go hide in your bunker.

Since you have it all figured out why don't you tell us what he should have done?

[mr.turbo]

another classic

[el numero uno]

I dunno, maybe some are missing the point. Obama, whether you want to admit it or not has made this country weak. No one and I mean NO ONE is afraid of us so much to the point now they taunt us. So you tell me what should have been done.

You know, whenever I post something stupid, I just lay back and let the thread die. You should do the same.

[Coach is Back!]

The only one missing the point is you. What should obama do since you place the blame squarely on him? Send a few jets on a training exercise to russia to retaliate? Demand Putins head on a platter? Light the batsignal? All this taunting has been going on for decades. Every country does it. Do you really think any country is less afraid of the US now than ever before just because of its current president. Bitch please. Go hide in your bunker.

Since you have it all figured out why don't you tell us what he should have done?

1. I dunno, sanctions obviously didn't work. Obama has proven to be no leader in anyway shape or form. The number one priority of a president (not Obama because I hardly consider him a "leader") is to protect it's people. He's weak at best.

2. Going on for decades? Yes, I know but not 50 miles off of our coast from a country 6000 miles away that hates us..lol.

[Coach is Back!]

You know, whenever I post something stupid, I just lay back and let the thread die. You should do the same.

Feel free to point out where I'm wrong. Obama is all but useless.

[Vince G, CSN MFT]

Awesome. Obama making friends everywhere....


BY: Bill Gertz     
June 11, 2014 7:15 pm

Four Russian strategic bombers triggered U.S. air defense systems while conducting practice bombing runs near Alaska this week, with two of the Tu-95 Bear H aircraft coming within 50 miles of the California coast, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) confirmed Wednesday.

“The last time we saw anything similar was two years ago on the Fourth of July,” Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Norad spokesman, told the Free Beacon.

Davis said the latest Bear H incursions began Monday around 4:30 p.m. Pacific time when radar detected the four turbo-prop powered bombers approaching the U.S. air defense zone near the far western Aleutian Islands.

Two U.S. Air Force F-22 jets were scrambled and intercepted the bombers over the Aleutians.

After tracking the bombers as they flew eastward, two of the four Bears turned around and headed west toward the Russian Far East. The bombers are believed to be based at the Russian strategic base near Anadyr, Russia.

The remaining two nuclear-capable bombers then flew southeast and around 9:30 P.M. entered the U.S. northern air defense zone off the coast of Northern California.

Two U.S. F-15 jets were deployed and intercepted the bombers as they eventually flew within 50 miles of the coast before turning around and heading west.

A defense official said the four bombers also were supported by two IL-78 aerial refueling tankers that were used for mid-air refueling during the operation this week.

The Tu-95 is a long-range strike aircraft capable of carrying nuclear cruise missiles. Other versions are equipped with intelligence-gathering sensors and electronic warfare gear. It has a range of around 9,400 miles without refueling.

Davis said the aircraft “acted professionally” and the bombers appeared to be conducting a training mission.

“They typically do long range aviation training in the summer and it is not unusual for them to be more active during this time,” he said. “We assess this was part of training. And they did not enter territorial airspace.”

The bomber incursion is the latest Russian nuclear saber-rattling amid stepped up tensions over Moscow’s military annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea.

Rep. Mike Conaway (R., Texas), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, called the Russian flights “intentional provocations.”

“Putin is doing this specifically to try to taunt the U.S. and exercise, at least in the reported world, some sort of saber-rattling, muscle-flexing kind of nonsense,” Conaway said in an interview. “Truth of the matter is we would have squashed either one of those [bombers] like baby seals.”

“It’s a provocation and it’s unnecessary. But it fits in with [Putin’s] macho kind of saber-rattling,” he said, adding that he expects Russia will carry out more of these kinds of incidents in the future.

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a former Alaska commander for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, said he does not remember a case of Russian strategic bombers coming that close to the U.S. coast.

“Again we see the Obama administration through their covert—but overt to Mr. Putin—unilateral disarmament, inviting adventurism by the Russians,” McInerney said in an email.

“At the height of the Cold War I do not remember them getting this close. Mr. Putin had to approve this mission and he is just showing his personal contempt for President Obama right after meeting him in Normandy less than a week ago,” McInerney said.

McInerney said no American president has been treated with such disrespect in U.S. history.

“A sad day indeed and at the same time Mosul and Tikrit [Iraq] fall to radical Islamists after the Obama administration’s failed Iraq policy,” he added. “He snatched defeat from the jaws of victory yet again.”

The Alaska-California bombers flight also came a month after a Russian Su-27 interceptor jet flew dangerously close to a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft flying over the Sea of Okhotsk, north of Japan.

In that incident on April 23, the Su-27 jet flew close to the RC-135, turned to reveal its air-to-air missiles to the crew, and then flew dangerously close to within 100 feet of the cockpit in a maneuver military officials called reckless.

Davis said in the past 10 years, 50 Bear H bombers were intercepted near U.S. air defense zone, although he acknowledged that Monday’s flight near California was unusual.

In April, a telephone conversation between two Russian ambassadors was posted on YouTube and appeared to show the diplomats joking about the Ukraine crisis and discussing the possible incursions in the United States and Eastern Europe.

The leaked conversation between Igor Nilokaevich Chubarov and Sergey Viktorovich Bakharev, Russian ambassadors to the African nations Eritrea and Zimbabwe and Malawi, respectively, includes references to post-Crimea Russian imperialism to include Eastern Europe and “Californialand” and “Miamiland.”

Russian Bear H flights elsewhere have increased in recent years.

In February 2013, two of the bombers were intercepted as they circled the U.S. Pacific island of Guam, in a rare long-range incursion.

Two Bear Hs also were intercepted near Alaska on April 28, 2013.

A Russian Bear H incursion in Asia took place in in July 2013 when two Tu-95s were intercepted by Japanese and South Korean jets near the Korean peninsula and Japan’s northern Hokkaido Island.

The July 4, 2012, bomber flights near the West Coast were the first time since the Cold War that Russian jets has traveled so close to the U.S. coastline.

That action followed an earlier intrusion by Tu-95s near Alaska that were part of large-scale strategic nuclear exercises by the Russians aimed at practicing strikes on enemy air defenses.

Russia has stepped up provocative nuclear war games in recent years as part of propaganda efforts to display Moscow’s dislike of U.S. missile defenses in Europe.

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http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-bombers-fly-within-50-miles-of-california-coast/

Lets not get carried away, Joe......



This is a Tu-95.  It may be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead but so can any other plane from Ethopia.  




It has fucking propellers!!!!  Its the pride of Russia and its also a slow moving piece of shit compared to our B-52's.....The plan is 62 years old and was built back in the 50's.  Nothing to see here

[LurkerNoMore]

Another fuck up thread by the dumbest person on Getbig.

Is it possible for someone to be so stupid that they don't even know they are stupid?

[Parker]

Lets not get carried away, Joe......



This is a Tu-95.  It may be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead but so can any other plane from Ethopia.  




It has fucking propellers!!!!  Its the pride of Russia and its also a slow moving piece of shit compared to our B-52's.....The plan is 62 years old and was built back in the 50's.  Nothing to see here

Tu-95 is the fastest propellored aircraft. And it is NOT the pride of Russia.

[Coach is Back!]

Another fuck up thread by the dumbest person on Getbig.

Is it possible for someone to be so stupid that they don't even know they are stupid?

Feel free to qualify that libtard

[Vince G, CSN MFT]

Tu-95 is the fastest propellored aircraft. And it is NOT the pride of Russia.

That's their MAIN BOMBER.  They only have 16 of the the jet bombers...and most of them are not even running.


They can beat up on some Somali Pirates or a 3rd World Country but it would get blown out of the sky by our airplanes.  It only got within 50 miles because the guys watching were prob laughing their asses off at this garbage truck with wings coming at them

[Competitor 9]

The Russians are currently having problems with their Sukhoi T-50 5th gen fighter prototypes  right now. Apparently, the Indians are disappointed in the quality and the issues with these prototypes so far. So, they have bigger things to worry about.
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-is-what-a-bbqd-russian-5th-generation-fighter-look-1589559175

Good catch Parker, I've read the official reports on the joint project lets just say it's a big pos

[O.Z.]

If you should be worried about something than this is it, not planes.
This can not be caught easily and it is armed with quite a few bulavas

[Coach is Back!]

Doesn't make any difference if were a paper airplane. They still came within 50 miles. Seriously with the excuses

[Kim Jong Bob]

That's their MAIN BOMBER.  They only have 16 of the the jet bombers...and most of them are not even running.


They can beat up on some Somali Pirates or a 3rd World Country but it would get blown out of the sky by our airplanes.  It only got within 50 miles because the guys watching were prob laughing their asses off at this garbage truck with wings coming at them

most? Only 4 of them didnt a american newspaper find photos of or papers about them be in the air btw 2011 and 2013

[Kim Jong Bob]

Doesn't make any difference if were a paper airplane. They still came within 50 miles. Seriously with the excuses

russia do this all the time to other countried to., what should obama do when the russians didnt break any rules?

Fucking dumbass start to read what you post before you do it.

[SF1900]

Doesn't make any difference if were a paper airplane. They still came within 50 miles. Seriously with the excuses

If Obama was a republican president, would you be bitching and moaning?  I bet you would not have even started this thread!

You're concerned not with his actions, but that he is a democrat. If we nominated the best president in the world, who just happened to be democrat, you would still bitch and moan and nitpick at every little thing. You would ignore all the good actions of a democrat president and look for anything bad, even if there was nothing to look for.

[BOW]

Joe, when are you going to learn to read the articles before you post them

coach doesn't believe in education so he never learned to read

[Vince G, CSN MFT]

Doesn't make any difference if were a paper airplane. They still came within 50 miles. Seriously with the excuses

A paper airplane would have been more of a threat than that piece of shit.  Those pilots were prob praying that the bucket wouldn't fall apart before it got back  .

However, we've been flying planes INTO THEIR COUNTRIES SINCE THE LATE 50's.  So what???

[The Ugly]

A paper airplane would have been more of a threat than that piece of shit.  Those pilots were prob praying that the bucket wouldn't fall apart before it got back  .

However, we've been flying planes INTO THEIR COUNTRIES SINCE THE LATE 50's.  So what???

Which side are you on, Vince?

[Kim Jong Bob]

If Obama was a republican president, would you be bitching and moaning?  I bet you would not have even started this thread!

You're concerned not with his actions, but that he is a democrat. If we nominated the best president in the world, who just happened to be democrat, you would still bitch and moan and nitpick at every little thing. You would ignore all the good actions of a democrat president and look for anything bad, even if there was nothing to look for.

if Obama would  react to thus non illegal russian fly he would cry like a 13 year old girl that obama is going to start ww3