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| Defense Focus: Betting on Blackjack |
| 2008-07-30 |
| Russia is betting on Blackjack and upping the odds: It may be a bluff, or Kremlin policymakers may believe they already are holding an inside straight. Russian policymakers Thursday boosted their threat to deploy supersonic Tupolev Tu-160 "White Swan" -- NATO designation Blackjack -- nuclear bombers in Cuba to say they might put them in Venezuela and Algeria, too. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #6 We might even give the Russians an IFF transponder so they don't accidentally get shot down. That would be just plain mean! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-07-30 23:08 |
| #5 Russia recognizes the latent threat from NUCLEAR ISLAMISM + is well aware that CHINA has its eyes on SIBERIA = RUSS FAR EAST. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-07-30 17:55 |
| #4 I bet our air defenses are good enough to take care of their cruise missiles and our fighters would make short work of their tankers. Go ahead. Let Russia spend money they should be investing on infrastructure for bases and support costs. We bankrupted you guys once, we can do it again. Mostly, this sounds like advertising to get nations that are not friendly to the US to buy Russian weapons. Friend of my enemy sort of thing. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-07-30 09:51 |
| #3 Only the MSM is getting into a sweat about this, because their minds are still firmly stuck in Camelot, that is, the Cuban missile crisis. The entire Caribbean out into the Atlantic is now intensely monitored for drug traffic. We might even give the Russians an IFF transponder so they don't accidentally get shot down. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-07-30 09:41 |
| #2 Targets. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-07-30 07:35 |
| #1 ...They have maybe twenty or so, and they could probably get three in condition to safely make the trip there and back. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2008-07-30 06:18 |