US overflights of Russia

[harmonica]

...wasn't this wrong? ....it was their national airspace....what made the US think it was ok? ...I remember reading some official saying ''we didn't want another Pearl harbor'''........did it not increase tension between the 2 countries?

 

[Bleipriester]

Covered by treaty.

 

[ReinyDays]

Reagan's idea ... trust with verification ... Russia had given us permission to closely monitor their chemical weapons manufacturing plants, as we gave them access to ours ...

Iran doesn't care ... let's the UN observers sit and watch them refine uranium ...

 

[harmonica]

what about in the 50s and 60s?

 

[ReinyDays]

what about in the 50s and 60s?

Reagan was in California then, was governor there by the late 60's ... plus we didn't want the Soviets to have access to our nuclear program ... we were overflying them with our U-2's ... I have no idea if the Soviets could overfly the USA then ... satellites are good but not very maneuverable, a plane can loiter but a satellite has to orbit at 17,000 mph ...

The Soviet Union collapsed ... things changed in some ways ... mainly the Warsaw Pact fell apart and it's members have been joining NATO ... [shrugs shoulders] ... maybe Russia isn't ready for all-out war right now and have to be okay with NATO overflights ...

 

[harmonica]

what about in the 50s and 60s?

Reagan was in California then, was governor there by the late 60's ... plus we didn't want the Soviets to have access to our nuclear program ... we were overflying them with our U-2's ... I have no idea if the Soviets could overfly the USA then ... satellites are good but not very maneuverable, a plane can loiter but a satellite has to orbit at 17,000 mph ...

The Soviet Union collapsed ... things changed in some ways ... mainly the Warsaw Pact fell apart and it's members have been joining NATO ... [shrugs shoulders] ... maybe Russia isn't ready for all-out war right now and have to be okay with NATO overflights ...

..yes, it wasn't legal -correct?....
what's Reagan got to do with it in the 50s/60s?

 

[ReinyDays]

..yes, it wasn't legal -correct?....
what's Reagan got to do with it in the 50s/60s?

Perhaps you should change your misleading title ... "Russia" generally refers the the Empire or Federation ... if you want a discussion about the USSR, then please so state ...

There's no Rule of War that prohibits overflights ... there's no Rule of War prohibiting bombing the living shit out of military targets ... obviously, this violated Soviet law, but you're a good thirty years to late to file a complaint ...

 

[harmonica]

..yes, it wasn't legal -correct?....
what's Reagan got to do with it in the 50s/60s?

Perhaps you should change your misleading title ... "Russia" generally refers the the Empire or Federation ... if you want a discussion about the USSR, then please so state ...

There's no Rule of War that prohibits overflights ... there's no Rule of War prohibiting bombing the living shit out of military targets ... obviously, this violated Soviet law, but you're a good thirty years to late to file a complaint ...

hahahahahahaha
if you did not figure that out, you don't have a brain

 

[whitehall]

A Marine named Lee Oswald was working on the top secret U-2 flights in Japan when he defected to Russia in October 1959. A few months after Oswald's defection in May 1960 a U-2 plane was shot down over Russia. Coincidence? The strangest thing is that the CIA apparently welcomed Oswald back into the U.S. with his new bride who was a daughter of a KGB official.