Russian Bomber Escorted From Alaska Coast

Sarah Palin is probably having a stroke right about now. (we could only hope)

But I'm not too worried about this...Russia has to flex it's muscles to us and the world...they're no better than North Korea.

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Come on now haven't you always wanted to go nuts with a 60 ton tank?Maybe on the streets of New York,can you imagine!

Sorry, just had a flash of vivid imagination

Originally posted by Battleline
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Come on now haven't you always wanted to go nuts with a 60 ton tank?Maybe on the streets of New York,can you imagine!

Sorry, just had a flash of vivid imagination

I wouldn't mind taking a 60 ton tank around and empty desert let alone a city street!!! That would be a dream come true! But without hurting anyone of course!!!

LifENcircleS

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Ofcourse you don't want to hurt anyone and you don't want it to end like it did for this guy.

Hay,when and if the SHTF here in the U.S. would be the prime opportunity to forfill a few crazy fantasy,s.I've never had a problem turning a bad situation into fun.Just got to keep your head.

Originally posted by LifENcircleS
What's the worst that they could do? Nuke a couple Alaskan cities...Oh No Don't Melt Our Snow!!! (Apology for those in Alaska. I meant no offense)

LifENcircleS

This quote by myself is appalling and I wish I never wrote it! My deepest apologies to EVERYONE here on ATS for such a remarkably stupid comment on my part!

LifENcircleS

From a wiki entry, this does seem to happen a lot. I had assumed the Russian's would be showing off a newer bomber.
Yes I know we still fly the B-52.

Tupolev Tu-95

* 27 January 2009 — Two Tu-95 flew patrol over the Arctic Ocean and near Alaska. They were accompanied by four USAF F-15 fighters for about 10 minutes.[35]

* 4 February 2009 — Two Tu-95MS were intercepted by two RDAF F-16 fighters when approaching Danish airspace.[36]

* 18 February 2009 — Two Tu-95MS were intercepted by two CF-18 fighters when approaching Canadian Arctic airspace.[37]

* 25 March 2009 — Two Tu-95MS were intercepted by two RDAF F-16 fighters when approaching Icelandic airspace.[38]

* 7 May 2009 — A pair of Russian Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers carried out a 15-hour routine patrol flight over the North Atlantic and the Arctic. The bombers conducted in-flight refueling from Il-78 Midas tankers and were also shadowed by NATO F-16 and RAF Tornado fighters.[39]

* 17 June 2009 — Two Tu-95 Bears, carrying out a routine patrol flight over the Arctic, were shadowed by two British Tornado and two Norwegian F-16 fighters.[40]

* 10 September 2009 — Two Russian Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers carried out a routine patrol flight over the Arctic Ocean. The bombers had spent over 10 hours in flight, and were shadowed by two U.S. F-15 fighters.[41]

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thats great lmao I can see the pilot of the Bear bomber passing the vodka around right now