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2015-04-09 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

The US Just Held Long-Range Bomber Drills Over An Area Russia Wants

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-04-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 First, to test and see how US Strategic Command could handle two separate missions, heading into two separate areas, at the same time.

It's come to this?

Posted by Shipman 2015-04-09 06:05|| 2015-04-09 06:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow. Four whole airplanes, plus tanker support. (And all the aircraft involved were at least 40 years old.)

Posted by ed in texas 2015-04-09 07:24|| 2015-04-09 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 It's come to this?
Reminds me of Iran claiming to send a tincan and fueler to the Atlantic coast.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-04-09 07:57|| 2015-04-09 07:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Well at least they are doing something other than sitting around with their thumb up their ass (that's the White House's job apparently)

Posted by OldSpook 2015-04-09 08:14|| 2015-04-09 08:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Ahh. They've got a new commanding general:
http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2015/04/just-be-curt.html

Posted by ed in texas 2015-04-09 08:20|| 2015-04-09 08:20|| Front Page Top

#6 I guess while the NCAA BB was going on, obooboo was not paying attention to this "provocative act..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2015-04-09 08:55|| 2015-04-09 08:55|| Front Page Top

#7 It's come to this?

Well... considering they haven't done this for some 30 plus years... Think of it as brushing the cobwebs off and getting back into the routine.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-04-09 09:12|| 2015-04-09 09:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Whaa? There's something funny going on with our mag compass

Posted by KBK 2015-04-09 10:45|| 2015-04-09 10:45|| Front Page Top

#9 I read a deal that back in the day the pilots would use the stars to chart their course.

Didn't say if that was the primary way to navigate (if true).

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-04-09 12:59|| 2015-04-09 12:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Curtis Lemay White courtesy phone we need to bring SAC back on line.

Posted by Vernal Spavins7649 2015-04-09 13:00|| 2015-04-09 13:00|| Front Page Top

#11 At night, in EMCON blackout, they would use stars and charts to navigate. There's still a need in case the GPS network is compromised or down or damaged.I hope they still teach that. Otherwise it's dead reckoning and redneck IFR (I Follow Roads)

Posted by OldSpook 2015-04-09 13:34|| 2015-04-09 13:34|| Front Page Top

#12 There's always the manual back up with a applicable database.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-04-09 14:11|| 2015-04-09 14:11|| Front Page Top

#13 I wonder if any of these whiz kids have ever seen a sextant?

Posted by OldSpook 2015-04-09 17:25|| 2015-04-09 17:25|| Front Page Top

#14 It's not a sextant we used but an astro-compass...about the same function, plus a sun-star almanach

Posted by hotspur666 2015-04-09 22:57|| 2015-04-09 22:57|| Front Page Top

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