WW III in 5... 4... 3...Follow

Yup, either Putin has ******* lost his mind, or he is losing control of his military. Buzzing a nuclear aircraft carier with a bomber is about 1 step shy of flying a TU-95 over the white house. Things like that reallly get the navy excited. And pissing off japan over the Kurel Islands again? What is up with that? If one wished to return the world to a state of cold war, one would be doing thse things. Unfortunatly, the cold war was founded on the U.S. not knowing where the soviets stood in terms of capabilities. Im pretty sure that the next time that bomber tries that particular trick it's going to be heading home as a cloud of aluminum vapor.


http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1305007,00.html?&lid=NEWS_TAB_US_ALERT_OVER_RUSSIAN_BOMBERS&lpos=TAB_CONTENT

American fighter jets have been scrambled after Russian bombers buzzed a US aircraft carrier in the Western Pacific.

FA-18 fighter takes off from carrierThe alert was sparked when two TU-95 Bear bombers flew within 500 miles of the USS Nimitz.

Four American FA-18 fighters were scrambled and tracked the strategic bombers.

One of the Russian planes remained around 50 miles away, but the other buzzed the carrier twice at an altitude of 2,000ft.

Sky's Ian Woods said incidents like these were common in the Cold War, but now highlighted frostier US-Russia relations.

Woods, who is in Washington, added: "It's an incident that happened on Saturday, but it's only just been reported.

"Four Russian TU-95 bombers had been tracked by US officials taking off from their base in eastern Russia and flew close to Japan, even encroaching into Japanese air space on one occasion.

"Then two of them broke off and started heading into the Western Pacific, where the USS Nimitz was on patrol.

USS Nimitz"When the bombers got to within 500 miles, four FA-18 fighters were scrambled.

"Two of them tracked one of the bombers as it hovered 50 miles away, but one bomber got a much, much closer look.

"It came to within 2,000ft, buzzing it twice before heading back into its own airspace."

The incident comes amid heightened tensions between the US and Russia over President Bush's plans for a missile defence system based in Poland and the Czech Republic.

It is the first time Russian Tupolevs have flown over or interacted with a US carrier in four years.

Good thing ole GW is in office and completely incapable of handling foreign affairs beyond calling people evil. Case in point the last 8 years Israel.

Not like Putin hasn't been increasingly causing **** year after year after year. Cutting gas off to former soviet bloc countries, etc.

It will be nice when someone with some actual foreign policy gets into office.

That's funny, just last night I dreamt that WWIII had started and that everyone who could stand was drafted. My brother and I went in as bomber pilots and as part of our training we studied historical bomber craft and bombing runs. We also played flight sim combat games and Battlefield2.

But this was probably just because I left the Military channel on all night, again.

When my ship is finished being built we should be the main ship in the Amphib strike group.

yay for long deployments

Ten steps forward, nine back, ten steps forward, nine back...

At least it's still forward progress in the long long run.

ftfy

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Did someone inform the Brits?

Even back in the day, I only read the parts with me in it. The rest of you can fall into the sea, far as I'm concerned.

Luckily I'm conveniently located near one! Which keepes the temperatures, while still cold, not as brutal as you're facing.

The gender is correct but the activity isn't. I use the SheWee!

Oh, lawd. What Flea always wanted.

Well, after reading this in that article: "It is the first time Russian Tupolevs have flown over or interacted with a US carrier in four years.", something tells me that we shouldn't be all that worried.

It's not the first time, hopefully we'll never get to the situation that it's the last time.

But over the years, we've been a lot closer to WWIII than our current situation.


Edited, Feb 12th 2008 3:50pm by Zieveraar