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Title: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: redman555 on March 14, 2009, 03:08:27 PM
MOSCOW — A Russian Air Force chief said Saturday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has offered an island as a temporary base for strategic Russian bombers, the Interfax news agency reported.


http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090314/EU.Russia.Bombers.Cuba/

first N.korea is actin strange, now russia?


-BigBOBCH
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: MORAY37 on March 14, 2009, 03:15:54 PM
It's just a response to our Navy patrolling the Baltic.  We'd find the same sort of action, if the Russians patrolled the Gulf of Mexico with surface combatants.

There isn't any use for Russia basing strategic bombers that close.  They cease being "strategic".  They already have the range to reach anywhere in the United States, putting them close to us makes it easier for us to negate them.  It's just rhetoric. 

Don't fall for the "fear card". 
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: Wingnutt on March 14, 2009, 03:30:44 PM
Am i the only one happy there is some good old fashion chest thumping going on??

I was getting tired of grainy super 8 videos from camel turd cave, its nice to see someone stepping up and saying "THIS IS HOW YOU POSTURE!"
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: james on March 14, 2009, 03:42:11 PM
Lol wingnut. its refreshing in an 80s cold war kind of way.
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: BaDkaRmA158Th on March 14, 2009, 03:44:31 PM
FUD...FUD FUUUUUD F. U. D.



Go media go!


Hey i just think russia wants to do what we did with shiping all of our import's to china.
Nothing like ivan wearing a "made in south america" shirt boxers socks and pants that says he owns the place. ;)


 :rock
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: SmokinLoon on March 14, 2009, 08:16:19 PM
If they do, they are making a big mistake.  Those bombers would be shot down within seconds of lifting off in a hostile situation.

They are simply rattling their sabre.  Sad thing is we know their sabre is rusty and they'd have a hard time getting it out of the scabbard if they ever decided to try and use it.

Let the station their buffs there... it would make things easier for us.
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: EagleEyes on March 14, 2009, 10:30:04 PM
They are just testing Obama to see if he has the jewels to stand up like Bush did....Thats all.....
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: Wingnutt on March 14, 2009, 10:59:59 PM
putting bombers in cuba is a bad tactical decision, we know they are there, 1 fighter's radar can track them from any place they take off safly from US airspace.. they have 0 chance of any element of surprise.. which is the whole purpose of having them there..

it makes sense on no level except as a poke to test the waters.
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: CAVPFCDD on March 14, 2009, 11:28:01 PM
Am i the only one happy there is some good old fashion chest thumping going on??

I was getting tired of grainy super 8 videos from camel turd cave, its nice to see someone stepping up and saying "THIS IS HOW YOU POSTURE!"

yeah sure makes me happy when the country with the largest nuclear stockpile is making threatining moves... :huh


putin slowly gave himself more power, they've been acting strange lately and I sure don't like it.
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: Chalenge on March 14, 2009, 11:33:53 PM
Testing Obama? Obama is here to open the door for them.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: Wingnutt on March 15, 2009, 12:11:14 AM
yeah sure makes me happy when the country with the largest nuclear stockpile is making threatining moves... :huh



they have more warheads.. technically, but in active service? able to deploy? 

at any rate

you can totally take nukes off the table, putin is ex KGB, meaning hes a little bit crazy, but hes not a fool, nothing short of the US invading the soviet union and starting to take the country completely over would prompt them to initiate a nuclear exchange, because they know good and well they (nobody) could win, they would be utterly obliterated.   nukes are a non factor.

Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: redwing7 on March 15, 2009, 09:56:46 AM
it's like that line from that george clooney flick, "it's not the guy with 100 nukes that scare me, it's the guy that just wants one."
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: Wingnutt on March 15, 2009, 10:28:30 AM
it's like that line from that george clooney flick, "it's not the guy with 100 nukes that scare me, it's the guy that just wants one."

Syriana
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: RAIDER14 on March 15, 2009, 02:15:03 PM
just scramble fighters from Macdill AFB
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: CAVPFCDD on March 15, 2009, 03:54:32 PM
just scramble fighters from Macdill AFB

i went to an airshow at Macdill, its close by, there are no fighters there, it houses a tanker plane squad.
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: fudgums on March 15, 2009, 04:07:49 PM
i went to an airshow at Macdill, its close by, there are no fighters there, it houses a tanker plane squad.

that you know of  :noid
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: BaDkaRmA158Th on March 15, 2009, 04:11:31 PM
Houses tanker planes, that can be used to fly and reinforce any area within' hours.

Imagine a few formations of f15's and such screaming state to state full afterburn hitting up tanker after tanker in a line flying from east to west or vice versa.


And you will understand the importance of a tanker fleet.


Either way, come sun up to sun down, that base can be crawling with newly arrived fighter's.

Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: Selino631 on March 15, 2009, 04:40:43 PM
Well since there is a US Naval Base in Guantamano Bay, Cuba. I am sure we some sort of anti-aircraft weapon if not a aircraft carrier down there.
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: TheZohan on March 16, 2009, 03:25:46 AM
i was in gitmo once and only aircraft i was lucky to see was a "Hind"

cuban waters is condition 3 for all american warships
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: TheZohan on March 16, 2009, 03:59:00 AM
Well since there is a US Naval Base in Guantamano Bay, Cuba. I am sure we some sort of anti-aircraft weapon if not a aircraft carrier down there.

theres like 3-4 major airforce/naval bases in FL  dont need a carrier ..
NAS key west is like 90 miles away (where i was born btw)
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: Marauding Conan on March 16, 2009, 07:58:06 AM
that you know of  :noid

No need to scramble fighters from MacDill. You already have Homestead ARB and Boca China NAS equiped with fighters.
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: -tronski- on March 16, 2009, 08:22:27 AM
Syriana

The Peacemaker

 Tronsky
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: Wingnutt on March 16, 2009, 10:52:43 AM
The Peacemaker

 Tronsky

BAH!
Title: Re: Russian bombers in cuba?
Post by: bongaroo on March 16, 2009, 11:06:44 AM
 :uhoh

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b184/speedy420/reddawn.jpg)

Maybe I should get ready to move to Colorado and be ready to join the resistance.