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2021-04-16 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia downs American spy plane - correction: "Escorted"
[Arutz7] - The Russian Ministry of Defence has announced that a Russian fighter has shot down a USAF Boeing RC-135 on an espionage mission over Kamatchka.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-16 07:02|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 "Shot down"....????
Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-16 07:31||   2021-04-16 07:31|| Front Page Top

#2 All RC-135s are assigned to Air Combat Command. The RC-135 is permanently based at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., and operated by the 55th Wing, using various forward deployment locations worldwide.
Posted by 3dc 2021-04-16 07:56||   2021-04-16 07:56|| Front Page Top

#3 ...and so it begins.... if real
Posted by Mercutio 2021-04-16 07:59||   2021-04-16 07:59|| Front Page Top

#4 ^tho there's a world of difference between "stops" and "downs"....
Posted by Mercutio 2021-04-16 08:01||   2021-04-16 08:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe the drone was checking out Ted Turner's spread on the Peninsula.
Posted by b 2021-04-16 08:12||   2021-04-16 08:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Russian Military Jet Escorted U.S. Spy Plane Over the Pacific - TASS
The Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday an MiG-31 fighter jet had escorted an RC-135 U.S. strategic reconnaissance aircraft over the Pacific Ocean along the coast of Kamchatka, TASS news agency reported.

The f&cker of a Arutz-7 translator almost gave me a heart attack
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-16 08:14||   2021-04-16 08:14|| Front Page Top

#7 US spy plane escorted by Russian fighter jet over the Pacific: report
Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-16 08:18||   2021-04-16 08:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Russia downs American spy plane

Whoa - serious flashback there!
Posted by Raj 2021-04-16 08:32||   2021-04-16 08:32|| Front Page Top

#9 "Downs" "Escorted" what's the diff when you're trying to start a war, right?
Posted by Frank G 2021-04-16 08:50||   2021-04-16 08:50|| Front Page Top

#10 So now President Asterisk and his freak show have blundered their way into three wars: China about to invade Taiwan. Israel left no choice but to prevent-emotive my strike Iran. And foolishly sticking our nose even deeper into Ukraine's arse so that The Big Guy and Lil' Crackpipe can collect their walking-around money.

And these idiots told us nonstop for four years that it was Trumpy Hitler who was dragging us over the brink.


Posted by Black Bart Uloter9042 2021-04-16 09:07||   2021-04-16 09:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Elections have consequences. Anyone not "packing the larder" is foolish
Posted by Warthog 2021-04-16 09:30||   2021-04-16 09:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Russians won't fire unless fired on.
Posted by badanov 2021-04-16 09:30||   2021-04-16 09:30|| Front Page Top

#13 Their pilots are clowns who will love to play chicken, for real or for play, but they won't fire on aircraft unless instructed to do so.
Posted by badanov 2021-04-16 09:32||   2021-04-16 09:32|| Front Page Top

#14 /\ Wagner Group can easily arrange such an incident.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-16 09:32||   2021-04-16 09:32|| Front Page Top

#15 Expect some "home movies" staring Hunter to be downloaded to internet.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-16 09:34||   2021-04-16 09:34|| Front Page Top

#16  /\ Wagner Group can easily arrange such an incident.

So can our side.
Posted by badanov 2021-04-16 09:35||   2021-04-16 09:35|| Front Page Top

#17 escorted away. "The ministry said the U.S. aircraft had not violated Russia's borders."

So they got close and left when Russia fighters saw them and got too close to allow further spying. I suspect this was a daily occurrence back in the cold war.
Posted by rjschwarz 2021-04-16 10:09||   2021-04-16 10:09|| Front Page Top

#18 hell in the Cold War B-52s used to get 100 miles away from Moscow before being escorted out.
Posted by 3dc 2021-04-16 11:41||   2021-04-16 11:41|| Front Page Top

#19 Russians won't fire unless fired on.

Unless it's a Korean Air Liner.

(And, yeah, I realize the US accidentally shot down an airliner, too.)
Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-04-16 11:54||   2021-04-16 11:54|| Front Page Top

#20 #15 Expect some "home movies" staring Hunter to be downloaded to internet.

Plus details of wire transfers to Hunter from various Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh and other money-laundering criminals
Posted by Jiggs Omaper5061 2021-04-16 12:20||   2021-04-16 12:20|| Front Page Top

#21 I don't know whether or not to tell the story about my Dad and the book _The Pursuit of Vigilance_ or not.

I'm kinda tired.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-04-16 17:38||   2021-04-16 17:38|| Front Page Top

#22 I'm sorry. _The Price of Vigilance_.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-04-16 20:03||   2021-04-16 20:03|| Front Page Top

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