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08-17-07, 11:08 PM #31
The Russians are nuts.... Russia sends long bombers back on patrol
Originally Posted by Ged
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08-18-07, 12:59 AM #32
The Russians are nuts.... Russia sends long bombers back on patrol
Pretty old news here. Week's old.
As for an opinion on it? It's perfectly fine. We continue to do our cold war sorties and have for decades, for them to resume theirs after a long lull is nothing significant.
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08-18-07, 10:37 PM #35
The Russians are nuts.... Russia sends long bombers back on patrol
If Russia wants to fly some old as shit bombers around, let them. If they try anything, the state of the art fighters escorting them will put a few sidewinders up their asses before they can even get their bomb doors open.
They ran out of things to do politically, so they're trying something militarily and the result is laughable. The Tu-95 Bear bombers were no match for the F4 Phantom IIs that escorted them up and down the US coast. Let alone the F-15s and FA-18s that will be watching them now.
Hell, last year the Russians did this off of Alaska... Got the attention of a few F-15s.
http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photo...-0000X-104.jpg
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08-19-07, 08:44 AM #37
The Russians are nuts.... Russia sends long bombers back on patrol
No, it's the Soviet equivilent to the B52. Each engine has counter rotating props. It has a max speed of 575 mph and a non-refueled range of 9,400 miles and carried a max bomb load of just over 44,000lbs.
It's the fastest and meanest prop-driven bomber ever made. It's not a bad plane at all... it's just been outclassed by the technology it's running up against.
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08-20-07, 03:50 PM #38
The Russians are nuts.... Russia sends long bombers back on patrol
First off, most of you kids missed out the joys of the cold war. Where we learned everything from 'duck and cover'
[YOUTUBE]http://youtube.com/watch?v=C0K_LZDXp0I[/YOUTUBE]
to the almost nuclear exchange durring the cuban crisis.
Now you'll also get the chance to experiance the wonderful thrill of the cold war except now we've added the extra thrill of the 'terrorist element' where there is no 'nation' to retaliate to.
So remember kiddos
Duck and Cover (2k style)
[YOUTUBE]http://youtube.com/watch?v=IEVvEsEbl5I[/YOUTUBE]
(that will save you)
@ Bite me: you really should put the DATE not the TIME of a news article.
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