Russia Revives Cold War Style Surprise Visits To U.S. Air Space With Bomber Jets

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http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008153425

August 9, 2007 1:41 p.m. EST


Linda Young - AHN News Writer

Moscow, Russia (AHN) - Moscow, Russia (AHN) - Russia revived its Cold War practice of sending Russian bombers to pay a surprise visit near an American military base. On Wednesday, Russia flexed its military power muscle by sending two unannounced bomber jets to Guam, a U.S. Territory.

U.S. fighter jets scrambled to meet the Tu-95 bombers on their unexpected military exercise in U.S. air space. Russian Maj. Gen. Pavel Androsov made light of the incident, saying that U.S. pilots had exchanged smiles with their Russian counterparts. snip

But the U.S. isn't the only one Russia has paid a Cold War style visit to recently. It also sent its bomber jets to Britain and Norway last month. Both countries responded by scrambling jets to intercept Russia's bombers.

[indepat]

1. What a shame jets could not have been scrambled on 9-11

[RC]

2. The long lasting damage this administration has done to the world with their

greedy paranoia, war crimes and crimes against humanity. It will take many generations just to get back to where we were in 2000, if ever.

[leveymg]

3. The TU-95 is a half-century old design. Very scary, for 1955.

The thing has propellers, for Gawd's sake. The chances that one of those crates would make it to a target in wartime (even to its cruise missile launch point), <5%.

[David__77]

5. It does the job.

They don't use their most advanced bombers for this sort of mission. This is about political communication and little else of strategic military importance, though useful information about US preparedness could be obtained.

[madrchsod]

4. two years ago a russian jet did a low pass flight

over the flight deck of an american carrier off the coast of japan. the pilot emailed his camera picture to the american carrier....the excuse for not seeing the jet was that they did`t think the russians were flying at that hour and at this location. needless to say the shit hit the fan...i read this in the naval magazine "proceedings"

[alphafemale]

6. Did he caption it "Pwned?"