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How is it OK to allow overflights of armed weapons systems, and how is it spun into some inconsequential "ego" game?
Originally posted by Subjective Truth
The next one that crosses the line we should shoot it down. I bet they would think twice before doing it again for awhile.
Their tech is so far behind ours it is laughable. They are truly clutching at straws just like the Chinese. Just remember everything you see today is 40 year old tech. To bad we had to bankrupt our country to do it.
Originally posted by yellowbeard
Originally posted by Subjective Truth
The next one that crosses the line we should shoot it down. I bet they would think twice before doing it again for awhile.
Their tech is so far behind ours it is laughable. They are truly clutching at straws just like the Chinese. Just remember everything you see today is 40 year old tech. To bad we had to bankrupt our country to do it.
You Americans think you're so superior to everybody else, sorry to inform you but you're not. You're just as vulnerable to nuclear attacks as everybody else, you're also MORE LIKELY to be attacked because of you're high handed attitude to the rest of the world. If your nation would chill out and stop trying the be the big boys in the playground you wouldn't have to panic about Russians flying near you.
Originally posted by plumranch
Russian Bomber Incursions.."Inside the Ring"
www.washingtontimes.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
Russia is continuing to fly strategic nuclear bombers near U.S. and Canadian airspace because the Russian military is seeking to maintain "the illusion of power," the commander of the U.S. Northern Command says.
Adm. Winnefeld, commander of the Colorado Springs-based Northcom. "They are trying to show the world that they are a powerful nation, and we're not giving them the satisfaction … ."