RAF Bear Hunt

[longknife]

[Okay, so this is a story about the Brits. Just thought it fits well here.]

What ever happened to the end of the Cold War? Are these things flying off the coasts of the USA and Canada and nobody's telling us about them?

Read more about this @ BBC News - Bear hunt: RAF pilots up close to Russian bombers

 

[Moonglow]

Treaty on Open Skies, signed 1990, enforced in 2002...

 

[longknife]

Putin Spying on US Coastal Bases

First, he send his spy planes over the USA – and probably us. Now, he's got a couple of spy ships sailing around in the Caribbean! So what's going on.

This story found on Drudge - Pentagon: Russian Spy Ship, Tug Operating Near U.S.
Ships near nuclear submarine base at Kings Bay, Ga. @ Pentagon: Russian Spy Ship, Tug Operating Near U.S. | Washington Free Beacon

But, the Pentagon doesn't think it's a big deal. Nor the Russian Nuke sailing up and down our Atlantic coast.

 

[SteadyMercury]

What are you talking about, your own article never said they actually penetrated UK airspace and that intercepting them was routine.

How do you take that and start talking about spy planes over the US?

 

[longknife]

What are you talking about, your own article never said they actually penetrated UK airspace and that intercepting them was routine.

How do you take that and start talking about spy planes over the US?

I never said they ENTERED US airspace! They have flown up and down our coastlines for years.

Now, we have Chinese trawlers loaded with intelligence gathering equipment sailing just outside our territorial limits.

And us? We're too busy keeping our ships in port so we don't spend too much on defense or cause others to think we just might be a bit tiffy.

 

[HenryBHough]

They can smell weakness better'n wolves can smell fear.

 

[SteadyMercury]

I never said they ENTERED US airspace! They have flown up and down our coastlines for years.

What does this mean:

First, he send his spy planes over the USA – and probably us.

Now, we have Chinese trawlers loaded with intelligence gathering equipment sailing just outside our territorial limits.

And us? We're too busy keeping our ships in port so we don't spend too much on defense or cause others to think we just might be a bit tiffy.

We spend more on defense than Russia and China combined.