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2017-12-06 China-Japan-Koreas

The US just upped the ante on simulated bomb runs on North Korea

I'll bet they didn't see that one coming.
• The US responded to North Korea's latest missile launch with a simulated bomb run from a B-1B Lancer bomber and an F-22 in a marked escalation in military signaling.

• North Korea hates the B-1 bomb runs and have threatened to shoot the plane down.

• The US's F-22 is fully stealth and North Korea likely can't hope to down it.

• With the US's most lethal planes doing the signaling, it's unclear how much higher tensions can rise.

The US carried out another simulated bomb run with a supersonic B-1B bomber on Wednesday, but this time it included the US's top-of-the-line air superiority fighter, the F-22, according to Yonhap.

B-1 flights represent the US's go-to response for North Korean provocations, such as missile tests, and the bomber flights draw a strong, sometimes dangerously escalating response from Pyongyang.

Previously, North Korea threatened to shoot down B-1s flying even outside its airspace and to loft missiles at Guam, where the B-1s are based.

But North Korea has a problem there. It apparently can't track the B-1 in flight because of its outdated radar and air-defense systems, according to NK News.

The F-22 is the world's stealthiest aircraft, meaning it's extremely unlikely North Korea could see it coming.

The combined B-1 and F-22 drill represents a step up in the normal tit-for-tat between the US and North Korea. It also comes during the Vigilant Ace aerial exercise that China and Russia warned the US about.

"Through the exercise, the South Korean and US air forces have demonstrated the alliance's strong will and capability for strong retaliation against North Korea's nuclear and missile threats," South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said, according to Yonhap.

But with the US using its best planes to message North Korea, and Pyongyang demonstrating missiles that experts assess can hit anywhere in the US, it's unclear just how much higher tensions on the Korean Peninsula could escalate.
Feeling a little squeezed lately, Kimmie?

Posted by gorb 2017-12-06 14:57|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 Heretofore, our resources expended on The Process™, now in its 6th decade, has given little in return. Theater, mostly, with occasional "Presidents Peering Across the Border" Photo-Ops.

Delays of the inevitable consume resources, all the while grinding forward to the unavoidable; we now have a President who recognizes this and, for our common benefit, wants it to stop.

The definition of "politics" will, owing to Mr. Trump, have to be changed a bit.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2017-12-06 21:30|| 2017-12-06 21:30|| Front Page Top

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