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    Default Putin sends Warplanes - To the western coast of Alaska

    The guy is finding out how much he can get away with, in his lame attempts to sabre rattle the West.

    At about 1:30 a.m. Thursday, two Canadian CF-18 fighter jets intercepted two of the long-range bombers about 40 nautical miles (64 nautical kilometers) off the Canadian coastline in the Beaufort Sea.

    U.S. jets intercepted Russian planes about 55 nautical miles (88 kilometers) from the Alaskan coast at about 7 p.m. Pacific time Wednesday.

    Russian planes were identified as two IL-78 refueling tankers, two Mig-31 fighter jets and two Bear long-range bombers.


    In both cases, the Russian planes entered the Air Defense Identification Zone, which extends about 200 miles (321 kilometers) from the coastline. They did not enter sovereign airspace of the United States or Canada. If they did, they would run the risk of being shot down as HOSTILES.


    In the past five years, jets under NORAD's command have intercepted more than 50 Russian bombers approaching North American airspace.



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    UPDATE: Having researched numerous articles many of those in-the-know, the purpose of this thread is to bring awareness UP on what is happening that is getting many key stakeholders concerned.. That Russia is acting "out of the norm.." and that some key Countries with Nuclear capabilities are concerned, and considering that they need to upgrade to keep up with Russia and China.. If you don't believe that Russia is ramping up, fine. State your opinion.

    Others have said they are ramping up and in particular Russia, is making intimidation moves 'that are not professional', nor conducted in the spirit of World Peace; and there are articles, comments from World Leaders, who are concerned, the sources are not necessarily from Main Stream Media also observing 'something is wrong with Russia's actions'..

    One particular article pointed out by a forum member has observed what appears to be a weapons test by Russia on a US naval vessel.. That would be a potential act of war considering the damage purported. The point that has been mentioned by key stakeholders is to NOT just try to trivialize Russia's actions, but to PAY attention.. Something is up.

    POST UPDATE:

    I suggest that the thread reader please look at these TWO POSTS to understand from two 'in-the-know' researchers following the Russian activities closely:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post879799

    and

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post879892

    The first link discusses what this action actually is - they say it IS called "a PROBING ATTACK", specifically designed to get specific information. The intimidation aspect is obvious.

    The second link, points out and discusses this is not really about PUTIN's actions, but more of a CHANGE in the overall KREMLIN POLICY to change from defensive postures to OFFENSIVE.

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    Please pay close attention to post #71 - in that post it describes the current regime's rise to power and WHY things are as they are - "Follow the MONEY" and how Russia and its services are supporting an enterprise determined to loot Russia and any other Countries it can... good insight into the killing of a "whistle blower", why it was done and by whom..

    It's easy to overlook the superficial and not care to look deeper. Enough stakeholders have pointed out there is a deeper situation going on. In post 71 it should become obvious that "ignoring", poo poo'ing supports not the People, but lends energy to what may be a strong manifestation of the Cabal. It could be those stakeholders are worried about their own positions in the Cabal when an upstart may be wanting something of theirs.. we shall see.
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    Default Re: Putin sends Warplanes - To the western coast of Alaska

    I worked at Elmendorf Air force Base (now consolidated to JBER) as a contractor for a few months (IT, as always) These air exercises by russia happen every single year.

    The soviets fly their ANCIENT relics right to the edge of our airspace, turn around and go home; we in turn send up intercepts, I think it might have originally started as saber rattling now it's just a very common thing.

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    Default Re: Putin sends Warplanes - To the western coast of Alaska

    Thanks target, because my first reaction was wtf. You have prevented more rattling.

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    Default Re: Putin sends Warplanes - To the western coast of Alaska

    I worked as a radar operator in socialist East Germany during my duty time in the army (in the age of 20). In that time I often watched American warplanes that flew along the border between West-Germany and East Germany. Sometimes they penetrated the airspace of my country which means they flew into the territory. A friend of mine served at a military airfield at the Baltic see. He told me that in those cases several fight jets had to start to push those planes out. The pilots of those jets who he knew personally were afraid of a beginning war or to be shut down by the invaders. This was no fun for them.
    God bless nothing happened all these years. Such maneuvers seem to be quite common. The Russians have had enough of wars. They have lost much of their population in WW2. That is from my perspektive.

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    Default Re: Putin sends Warplanes - To the western coast of Alaska

    I think it's just like two dogs checking out one another. and this over decades. the old mine's bigger than yours.

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    Default Re: Putin sends Warplanes - To the western coast of Alaska

    Officials in Washington think the incidents were related to the visit by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who talked to Canadian officials Wednesday and President Barack Obama on Thursday.

    The United States promised Ukraine $46 million in nonlethal aid for its battle with pro-Russian militants.

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    AND

    DUTCH airspace INCIDENT

    "Dutch fighter jets intercept 2 Russian bombers in their airspace"

    So multiple incursions - something to keep an eye on.

    Dutch fighter jets scrambled Wednesday to intercept a pair of Russian military aircraft that entered their airspace, a fairly routine action that comes amid heightened tensions between Russia and NATO, a Dutch official said.

    Maj. Wilko Ter Horst said that the military learned around 3:50 p.m. (9:50 a.m. ET) that two Russian TU-95 bombers, known as Bears, had come a half-mile inside its airspace.

    In this case, British military aircraft took over from the Dutch in escorting the Russian planes.

    A British Defense Ministry spokesman said that planes from his military left from Royal Air Force station Leuchars "to determine the identity of unknown aircraft that approached the NATO Air Policing Area north of Scotland and could not be identified by other means."

    These planes were later identified as the Russian military planes. The spokesman stressed that they didn't enter British airspace.

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    Default Re: Putin sends Warplanes - To the western coast of Alaska

    I am not sure people have been paying attention to how much Sabre rattling Putin is actually doing. His warplanes have been provoking many nations not just the USA and Canada.

    Putin, it appears has little regard for diplomatic peaceful solutions. He is flexing his muscles all over the globe. Every time this man steps into another countries airspace it has the potential to set off WWIII.

    Here is one of many articles few people have probably seen.
    Third Russian airspace violation in a week; Finland steps up air surveillance

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    Earlier this year, Japan complained that Russia violated its airspace

    As read on RENSE.COM

    Russia staged a major military exercise on opposite sides of the globe on Wednesday, forcing Japanese and Norwegian fighters to scramble as Russian bombers approached over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

    Japan said six Russian aircraft actually entered its airspace, but Moscow denied this. Norway said Russian planes came close to its territory but flew on toward Scotland, and a Norwegian spokesman said it looked like a major linked exercise.

    A Russian Defense Ministry source confirmed this, but was coy on the details of an operation which showed the air force's growing confidence under President Vladimir Putin and its potential role should Washington deploy an anti-missile shield.

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    In Tokyo, the Foreign Ministry called in the Russian ambassador to protest about what Japan said was a double intrusion into its airspace by two fighters and four swing-wing Tupolev Tu-22 bombers near the northern island of Hokkaido.

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    RAF paying attention

    Royal Air Force jets were deployed from Scotland to intercept Russian military 'Bear' aircraft that were flying too close to the airspace it guards.

    Aircraft based at RAF Lossiemouth, based in Moray, were sent to identify the aircraft - Tu-95 Russian Bear H bombers - that were spotted in international airspace.

    It was the first time a Quick Reaction Alert had occurred since the base took on the role of defending the UK’s Northern airspace.

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    The interception, which involved two Typhoon jets pictured, was the first time a Quick Reaction Alert had occurred since the Lossiemouth, Scotland, base had taken on the role of defending the UK's Northern airspace

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    Russian attack aircraft harass a NATO Frigate in the Black Sea

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    Frigate Buzzing On The Black Sea/Cruise Missile

    On Sunday, the Canadian Helifax class frigate HMCS Toronto was operating in the Black Sea as part of a small multinational flotilla. This group of predominately NATO ships was executing drills with the Ukrainian Navy when the frigate was flown over by a Russian AN-26 surveillance aircraft, and then a pair of Russian Su-24 Fencer swing-wing attack aircraft buzzed the ship at low-level.


    Canada protested that the Russian aircraft acted unnecessarily in a provocative manner.

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    Finland says they will intercept after 3rd violation in a week

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    Nato 2014 Summit: Finland 'Ready to Intercept' Russian Planes after Third Airspace Violation in a Week

    "We will express the fact that from our perspective, this is totally unacceptable," defence minister Carl Haglund said, according to the online edition of newspaper Helsingin Sanomat."

    "Three airspace violations within a week is a lot and unfortunately they don't really have a good explanation. What we know is they are done somewhat on purpose. We don't know what that purpose is," he said, adding that he will put Finnish air force on alert, according to Bloomberg.

    The Finnish border guard said that in all three cases the Russian aircrafts ignored requests to leave the airspace.

    Helsinki has accused Moscow of violating its airspace five times since the Ukraine crisis started.

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    Iran weighs in on the Russian attempts with one of their news reporters saying that such is a practice mission

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    The incident happened at the same time that world leaders participated at the NATO summit in Wales, according to the report.

    The unnamed officials familiar with intelligence reports said analysis of the flight indicated the "jets were conducting practice runs to a pre-determined “launch box”—an optimum point for firing nuclear-armed cruise missiles at US targets,” the report said.

    A spokesman for the US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command declined to comment on the matter.

    The mission by Moscow comes as tensions have been rising between the United States and Russia over the crisis in Ukraine.

    According to Northern Command, strategic bomber flights by Russia increased over the past six months.

    In August, the US military said that at least 16 Russian bomber incursions occurred over a period 10 days within the northwestern US and Canadian air defense zones.

    Last month, commander of the US Strategic Command Admiral Cecil Haney said that he is concerned by Russian nuclear exercises and increased bomber flights near the US.

    “Clearly, we at the US Strategic Command do monitor the strategic environment,” Haney said.

    “I will say that the business of them coming close to the United States of America, we take very seriously,” he added.

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    The Washington Times mentions also Admiral Cecil Haney, commander of the US Strategic Command considers these apparent escalations serious

    (Maybe the Strategic Command considers there is something to keep watch...suppose he would have accurate data?)

    Russian strategic air forces fired six new, precision-strike cruise missiles in test launches Friday amid new tensions between Moscow and the West over the crisis in Ukraine.

    Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Friday that the missile firings took place during exercises involving eight Tu-95 Bear bombers—the same type of strategic bomber recently intercepted 50 miles off the California coast by U.S. jets.

    Adm. Cecil Haney, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, said the recent testing of Russia’s newest air-launched cruise missile is part of a pattern of nuclear saber rattling by Moscow.

    “Additionally, we have seen significant Russian strategic aircraft deployments in the vicinity of places like Japan, Korea and even our West Coast,” Haney said. “Russia continues to modernize its strategic capabilities across all legs of its triad, and open source [reporting] has recently cited the sea trials of its latest [missile submarine], testing of its newest air launch cruise missile and modernization of its intercontinental ballistic force to include its mobile capability in that area.”

    A former Pentagon official said the new missile was likely an air-launched cruise missile designated KH-101 or KH-102. The Kh-101 is armed with a conventional warhead and the Kh-102 is a strategic nuclear delivery vehicle.

    “The Obama administration Defense Department says the KH-102 is operational."

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    T[..] my first reaction was wtf. You have prevented more rattling.
    Apparently Adm. Cecil Haney, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command seems to think Russia IS sabre rattling, despite Iran news saying it is dry runs for an attack. Haney said the recent testing of Russia’s newest air-launched cruise missile is part of a pattern of nuclear saber rattling by Moscow.

    Clearly a head in the sand is the best way to not pay attention to what's happening out there? Poo poo it all away

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    If I were NATO looking to start a war, first I'd provoke the "enemy", then I'd swamp the media with reports of blatent aggression and the increasing threat. All the time making the population more fearful of what could happen and more supportive of any action our military may take. I'd also take every opportunity to demonise their leader so that people who didn't want to think too deeply could easily relate to the message we were presenting and easily identify the bad guy. Once the message had been deeply engrained into the population there would be widespread support to do 'what ever it takes' to defend our democracy ...

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    The NEW (not old, not "ancient relic") Kh-102 is a strategic nuclear delivery vehicle.

    (Source) - from Arms Control dot ORG (this is not a MSM) - this is a data source reference.

    The known Russian stockpile is estimated at roughly 4,300 warheads, of which approximately 2,000 are for nonstrategic weapons. Russia is in the middle of a significant nuclear modernization.

    With regard to the Russian bomber force, the Tu-160 Blackjack, Tu-95MS Bear, and Tu-22M Backfire bombers are all undergoing various upgrades to extend their service lives and improve their military capabilities. In addition, work is currently under way on the design of a subsonic replacement bomber to enter service early in the next decade. A new nuclear cruise missile, known as the KH-102 air-launched cruise missile is now developed.

    Additional material - http://warsclerotic.wordpress.com/20...ct-is-growing/

    Russia is engaged in a large-scale buildup of strategic nuclear forces that has been underway for a decade, the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command (Stratcom) told Congress on Wednesday.

    “Russia has maintained and continues to modernize their strategic deterrent capability,” Adm. Cecil Haney, the Stratcom commander told the House Armed Services Committee.

    The blunt comments came in response to reports that Russian strategic nuclear forces recently held a large-scale nuclear exercise coinciding with saber-rattling conventional military deployments close to Russia’s eastern border with Ukraine.

    Haney said the Russians conduct periodic nuclear war games and in 2013 produced a YouTube video that highlighted “every aspect of their capability.”

    “But on a day-to-day basis, they exercise and have a readiness posture of their capability, which we monitor very closely,” Haney said.

    State Department cables sent to Washington earlier this year included dire warnings that Russia is vastly increasing its nuclear arsenal under policies similar to those Moscow followed during the Soviet era.

    The cables, according to officials familiar with them, also stated that the Russian strategic nuclear forces buildup appears aimed at achieving nuclear superiority over the United States and not nuclear parity.

    The nuclear modernization has been “continuous” and includes adding fixed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and mobile ICBMs, along with a new class of strategic missile submarines, Haney said in testimony.

    “Russia has articulated their value in having strategic capability, and as such, each area they have invested in both in terms of nuclear strategic capability as well as space capability and cyberspace capability in terms of things,” Haney said.

    “And as a result, we have seen them demonstrate their capability through a variety of exercises and operations. They maintain their readiness of that capability on a continuous fashion. And it’s a capability I don’t see them backing away from.”

    By contrast, Haney testified to the committee that U.S. nuclear forces are in urgent need of modernization to update aging nuclear weapons, delivery systems, and support and production infrastructure, most of which were made decades ago.

    Under budget sequestration, which could be re-imposed in 2016, U.S. nuclear force modernization will be undermined.

    Russia “drew down” some conventional military forces since the end of the Cold War but “the one area that they maintained was their strategic capability,” the four-star admiral said, adding: “Their modernization has been occurring over the last decade or so.”

    While Moscow has been aggressively upgrading its nuclear forces, “in our case we have sustained existing programs,” he said.

    “I want to be careful in terms of comparing apples to oranges. It’s just as we look to our future, you can only sustain what we have for so long.”

    Asked by Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Ala.) if the U.S. nuclear modernization program is insufficient, Haney said: “I would say we have plans for our modernization that we must continue to work through and as long as we stay on course on those plans, we will be fine.”

    “Sequestration as written today puts uncertainty in those plans in terms of what will be funded into the future, he added.

    Rep. Michael Turner (R., Ohio) told Haney at the hearing that Russian actions in Ukraine should prompt the United States to quickly upgrade its nuclear forces.

    “Putin has allowed us, in his most recent actions, to understand that we have been pursuing a false narrative with respect to Russia — both with respect to our conventional forces in Europe and our strategic forces,” Turner said.

    “We now see that there have been some actions that Russia has been taking, specifically under the leadership of Putin, that perhaps we have ignored or that we have diminished in importance,” Turner added. “As we review those issues again, certainly our nuclear deterrent comes to mind as an issue that needs to be reviewed, in light of Russia’s actions and Russia’s doctrine.

    "U.S. officials have identified the new weapons in the Russian strategic arsenal as a new mobile ICBM called the Yars-M to be deployed later this year that will use a more powerful fuel, allowing it to better defeat missile defenses. The missile will have a range of up to 6,835 miles and have 10 warheads."

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    Yup, go right ahead, sure let's all just ignore what's happening, and keep our heads in the sand, and in that case certainly there will be nothing to see.. rofl..
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    I am anxious regarding the US oil and gas exploration sanctions on Russia and wonder how this will affect our alliance with UK -- you said the Russians avoided UK airspace but not Dutch and not ours... weird huh?

    UK owns like 20 percent of the nat'l gas company in russia..

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    I get what you are saying Bob. I personally see this as a huge pile of egos flexing their muscles at each other. Very childish IMO. I find it incredibly difficult to believe anything that comes out of mainstream, as it has to be translated, and have all the be picked out, then what is left, is a blank page.
    I find that the goal is to keep everyone afraid of the big bad wolf (nukes), diverting our attention, then turning out the lights to the real scenarios that matter. What are they again?oh yeah, And, keeping us dazed and confused.

    Darn I hit something on my phone and my sentences got re arranged. Argh . Hope this makes sense.
    It just seems like another day on earth to me.

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    I am anxious regarding the US oil and gas exploration sanctions on Russia and wonder how this will affect our alliance with UK -- you said the Russians avoided UK airspace but not Dutch and not ours... weird huh?

    UK owns like 20 percent of the nat'l gas company in russia..
    Central, East Europe Brace for Energy Shortages as Russian Gas Flows Fall
    Moscow's Dispute With Ukraine Over Gas Payments Threatens Supplies

    PRAGUE—A fall in natural gas flows from Russia to several Central and Eastern European countries this week has sent a chill through the region as it prepares for possible energy shortages this winter.

    Austria's energy regulator E-Control and oil and gas company OMV AG OMV.VI -0.38% both said on Friday that gas shipments from Russia were down 15% from previously ordered volumes.

    The decline in supplies to Austria began Thursday and was expected to continue through Friday, said Robert Lechner, of OMV's press office.

    "Until now we are not aware of the specific reasons for this," Mr. Lechner said.

    Estonia, Finland, Lithuania and Latvia receive all of their gas from Russia. Russian gas flows to Ukraine have been cut off since June.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...-Centrica.html - Britain’s largest utility doesn’t know how much of the natural gas generating our electricity and heating our homes is Russian

    Just how much gas does Britain import from Russia?

    The simple question is a complicated one to answer because of the myriad of pipelines and interconnections that tie together Europe’s energy industries and utilities. Created over the past couple of decades as part of a grand European project to roll back borders and liberalise markets, it was envisaged that cross-border pipelines would allow for the free flow of gas while providing long-term cheap supplies of energy for the region’s consumers.

    In reality it has failed, and in the case of the UK it has created a situation where there is some uncertainty about where exactly the gas we import via a pipeline from Holland originates. Some reports claim Russia supplies 15pc of the UK’s gas and others suggest the country is currently importing none from Moscow’s state-controlled energy companies.

    Even Britain’s largest utility, Centrica, doesn’t know how much of the natural gas generating our electricity and heating our homes is Russian. The company signed a deal in 2012 with the UK marketing arm of Russia’s state-controlled energy giant Gazprom for the supply of 2.4bn cubic metres of gas over three years. Reports on Friday suggested this gas was already being pumped into the country via the Dutch pipeline. However, a spokesperson from Centrica vigorously denied the rumour being spread by analysts to explain a sudden increase in volumes of gas flowing the through the pipeline, which runs under the North Sea.

    According to Cenrtica, supplies from Gazprom won’t begin until October. The British utility is also at pains to stress that it doesn’t know whether the Russian company will import the fuel from its vast fields in Siberia, or simply supply gas it has bought on the open European market. If knowledge is power then Cenrica’s lack of information about where Britain’s gas will come from in the future is a concern.

    Political FOOT BALL

    Earlier in the year, vast amounts of ON-SHORE OIL and GAS in UK were discovered as well as shallow near OFF-SHORE. ALL attempts to exploit local production were BLOCKED. Wonder what that's all about?
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    Real Sabre rattling:


    The US Is Unprepared For War With Russia: Russian Aircraft Buzzes American Aegis Equipped Destroyer And Turns OFF Ship's Defenses!

    Wednesday, April 23, 2014

    I was alerted just the other day from a comment and an email about a very interesting incident that supposedly just happened last week which was not reported by the liars in the mainstream media because it made light of the fact that the US is entirely unprepared for war with Russia (no surprise here). I want to share some very interesting details about this incident in this article...

    According to the following report from the Russian Radio website, at www.indian.ruvr.ru, it appears that an American Aegis guided missile cruiser, the USS Donald Cook, was in the Black Sea last week on April 14th, when a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 fighter flew near by the vessel... This Russian fighter was equipped with the latest in Russian anti radar jamming technology, and when the fighter turned on its radar jamming devices towards the USS Donald Cook, it was able to disable and blinded the ship's Aegis systems! First I have that report right here for everyone to see for themselves, and I do have my thoughts and comments to follow:


    Russian Su -24 scores off against the American "USS Donald Cook"

    21 April, 09:59



    Photo: RIA Novosti

    Russian Sukhoi Su -24 with the newest jamming complex paralyzed in the Black Sea the most modern American combat management system "Aegis" installed on the destroyer "USS Donald Cook". Pavel Zolotarev, Deputy Director, Institute of USA and Canada, shares details about this version which is being actively discussed in the Russian media and by bloggers.

    US destroyer "Donald Cook" with cruise missiles "Tomahawk" entered the neutral waters of the Black Sea on April 10. The purpose was a demonstration of force and intimidation in connection with the position of Russia in Ukraine and Crimea. The appearance of American warships in these waters is in contradiction of the Montreux Convention about the nature and duration of stay in the Black Sea by the military ships of countries not washed by this sea.

    In response, Russia sent an unarmed bomber Su- 24 to fly around the U.S. destroyer. However, experts say that this plane was equipped with the latest Russian electronic warfare complex. According to this version, "Aegis" spotted from afar the approaching aircraft, and sounded alarm. Everything went normally, American radars calculated the speed of the approaching target. And suddenly all the screens went blank. "Aegis" was not working any more, and the rockets could not get target information. Meanwhile, Su-24 flew over the deck of the destroyer, did battle turn and simulated missile attack on the target. Then it turned and repeated the maneuver. And did so 12 times.

    Apparently, all efforts to revive the "Aegis" and provide target information for the defence failed. Russia's reaction to military pressure from the United States was profoundly calm, feels the Russian political scientist Pavel Zolotarev:

    The demonstration was original enough. A bomber without any weapons, but having on-board equipment for jamming enemy radar, worked against a destroyer equipped with "Aegis", the most modern system of air and missile defense. But this system of mobile location, in this case the ship, has a significant drawback. That is, the target tracking capabilities. They work well when there is a number of these ships which can coordinate with each other somehow. In this case there was just one destroyer. And, apparently, the algorithm of the radar in the "Aegis” system on the destroyer did not load under the influence of jamming by the Su-24. It was therefore not only a nervous reaction to the fact of flying around by the Russian bomber which was common practice during the Cold War. The reaction of the Americans was due to the fact that most modern system, especially its informative or radar part, did not work adequately. Therefore, there was such a nervous reaction to the whole episode.

    After the incident, the foreign media reported that "Donald Cook" was rushed into a port in Romania. There all the 27 members of the crew filed a letter of resignation. It seems that all 27 people have written that they are not going to risk their lives. This is indirectly confirmed by the Pentagon statement according to which the action demoralized the crew of the American ship.

    What are the possible consequences of the incident provoked by the U.S. in the Black Sea? Pavel Zolotarev forecasts:

    I think that Americans are somehow going to reflect on improving the system “Aegis". This is a purely military aspect. In political terms, there is hardly any likelihood of demonstrative steps by either side. That is enough. Meanwhile, for Americans it is a very unpleasant moment. In general, the missile defence system which they deploy involves huge expenditures. They have to prove each time that it is necessary to allocate funds from the budget. At the same time, the ground component of the ABM was tested in ideal conditions and showed a low efficiency. This fact is concealed by the Pentagon. The most modern component, the sea-based system "Aegis" also showed its shortcomings in the present case.

    The system with which the Russian Su-24 shocked the American destroyer "Donald Cook" has the code name "Khibiny". This is the name of the mountain range on the Kola Peninsula in the Arctic Circle. "Khibiny" is the newest complex for radio electronic jamming of the enemy. They will be installed on all the advanced Russian planes .

    Recently the complex has undergone regular testing exercises on the ground in Buryatia. Apparently, the tests which were conducted under conditions as close to real as possible, were successful.

    Read more: http://indian.ruvr.ru/2014_04_21/Rus...ald-Cook-5786/




    NTS Notes: From what I have learned about "American Superiority" over the last few decades as being nothing but lies and falsehoods, I do believe that this report is absolutely accurate....

    We have been fooled for the longest time into the false belief that America spends all of those billions of dollars on "defense" and what they get in return is somehow the best in technology... The truth is somewhat different when you consider that money is absolutely not spent wisely at all and in fact goes into the deep pockets of companies in the military industrial complex that gives absolute JUNK in return! If you want further proof, look closely at the sordid history of the "Bradley Fighting Machine" that has been nothing but a waste of taxpayer money that has resulted in a small "tank" wrought with problems that would be blown to smithereens in any major engagement.... And I need not even mention the fiasco of the F35 "Lightning" that is proving to be the worse possible aircraft ever for the US military and would be blown out of the sky in any engagement with Russian or Chinese modern aircraft!

    This shows that the Americans are absolutely ill prepared for a war against Russia.... This shows that if a shooting war ever started, every American vessel in the Black Sea and possibly elsewhere would be a sitting duck to the incoming Russian aircraft if they are equipped with similar radar jamming technology...

    It is no wonder that the USS Donald Cook quickly withdrew with its "tail between its legs" and that this report has not been seen on any of the US "mainstream media" at all (no surprise here).... The criminals in charge of the propaganda machine cannot let the sheep know that Russia is no slouch and has the technology that definitely matches (and in some instances exceeds) that of the US....

    This should be a wake up call for anyone in the US military to the understanding that a war against Russia is absolutely the worse thing that their government could ever consider... Russia has not sat idly by while the US spends hundreds of billions on weapons that may not work... They are no fools and have developed some major systems that are indeed capable of dealing with anything the Americans can throw at them.

    A true wake up call for all Americans, and especially their criminal government that is now pushing for war against Russia.

    More to come

    NTS
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