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| Russia Reinforces Armenia Air Base near Turkish Border |
| 2016-02-21 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] Russia has sent several fighter planes including fourth-generation jets and a transport helicopter to reinforce its air base in Armenia near the border with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , the defense ministry said Saturday. Four fourth-generation Mikoyan MiG-29 jets as well as a number of modernized MiG-29S bombers and a Mil Mi-8MT helicopter have been dispatched to the base, a statement said. Russia's base at Erebuni airport just outside the capital Yerevan already has nine fourth-generation MiG-29 planes designed to carry a payload of up to 4,000 kilograms of weapons and with larger fuel tanks, allowing them to spend more time on missions. Russia also has a base for ground troops at Gyumri, some 55 miles (90 kilometers) from the capital of the ex-Soviet republic. Yerevan is around 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Armenia's border with Turkey, which has been closed since 1993 due to the countries' long-running feud. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 IMO Darth Vlad/VladVedev doesn't want to see several Muslim, potentially Nukulaar + Islamist-Jihadist "Co-Superpowers" on its periphery including the growing ISIS/ISIL presence in AFPAK. AGAIN, THE bAMMER + ALIGNED ANTI-US OWG GLOBALISTS HAVE N-O-T YET CONVINCINGLY ANSWERED THE QUESTION AS TO HOW MANY "US-STYLE/PAR" CO-SUPERPOWERS INCLUDING MUSLIM CO-SUPERPOWERS THEY WANT IN THE NEW OWG-NWO = SPACE GOVT-ORDER. HOW MANY "POLES" IN THEIR "POST-US', "MULTI-POLAR" WORLD!? NOR HOW WILL THESE SAME BE KEPT INLINE, AS OPPOSED TO BEING UNILATERALLY OR "AYMMETRCIALLY" "MAHANIST" = MILPOL OR GEOPOL AGGRESSIVE OR BELLIGERENT??? D *** NG IT, ITS UN-ANSWERED MAHA-RUSHIAN QUESTIONS LIKE THESE THAT CAUSES "ARISNG ARIZONA'S JOHN GOODMAN TO FLING HIS AM CORN FLAKES AROUND WIDOUT REGARD TO OTHERS IN THE ROOM! As for ANKARA = TURKEY ... * FYI IIRC GROONG > [Russ Ultra-Nationalist Activist-Pol] VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY: THERE WON'T BE MUCH LEFT OF TURKEY IFF RUSSIA'S TERRITORIAL DEMANDS FOR THE RETURN OF THE FORMER WESTERN ARMENIA[now Western Turkey] ARE MET, RUSSIA SHOULD RECOGNIZE TURKISH KURDISTAN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-02-21 19:56 |
| #1 June 28, 1914 ticks ever closer. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2016-02-21 15:31 |