NATO says In the past two days Russian jets, bombers circle Europe in unusual incidents

[SvenSvensonov]

There are large off shore wind farms near a few miles off coastlines here in Wales, and


Whilst I agree its nothing new or crazy I dont think EU nations are flying planes and ships past Russian lands and basically waving at them, another glaring example of how when Russia does something its fine but if the west does it its evil and an act of war.

Its an almost WW2 ere bomber that would be destroyed over the sea before even seeing a land mass of their target destination though so its about as troublesome as well...a plane from 60 years ago.

These Russian incursions are an annual response to an annual NATO drill that takes place. The drill is known as Global Thunder, and is a simulated nuclear bombing mission. Every year Global Thunder takes place in October and every year the Russians respond in kind. This year the Russians flew a few more aircraft than usual, but all in all this is nothing out of the ordinary.

 

[Tsilihin]

Huge country must be kept on eye,
Russia is bigger with new 27000 km - Crimean Peninsula and they must have skilled pilots.
Pilots have a practical flying hours how can improve their combat readiness.
Nothing bad .

 

[ptldM3]

Those 50 year old aircrafts are detected hundreds of km away from their target and destroyed within minutes.

Almost no point in answering you since you're banned again. It should be clear the TU-160 is not 50 years old and even if the TU-95 is, it still does not matter. Both aircraft are capable of hitting targets as far away as 3,500km. No aircraft in Europe has the range to intercept another aircraft at 3,500km without refueling, especially if that aircraft is not stationary but moving. In other words it may be 3,500km away from first detection/first target destroyed but it will continue to travel away from that target . A long range A2A missile of 100km is worthless. Even if that missiles is fired at a TU-160 at 100km away it will not hit the target if the missile is fired from behind the bomber. It will simply burn out.

We are talking about russia here. A country that doesnt even have electricity for large parts of its population...

Russia is ranked 4th in electrical consumption. In average Russian consumes 808 watts of electricity while the average Italian consumes 581 watts per person and for reference the average English resident consumes 622 watts. Once again you have been exposed as someone that lies. No wonder you have been banned about 12 times.

and Europa...The Eu landed a spacecraft on Titan and on a comet next week.

No one cares. Europe has not accomplished anything meaningful in space exploration. Russia had the first rocket in space, the first human in space, the first space walk, first space station, first satellite, first to land probes on planets, ect.

The technological superiority of NATO is so overwhelming, that russia simply looks laughable.

The only European countries in NATO that are even worth mentioning is France, Turkey, and the UK. And with major budget cuts and shrinking militaries no one is afraid. Especially not Russia, Russia has basically spit at NATO and NATO coward down. NATO is afraid to bomb Assad, did nothing over Crimea, and nothing over Georgia.

Nobody in europe is panicking. Most articles show how laughable russia acts, with its old *** technology.

Most European leaders are going hysterical.

Beside that, Merkel has a phd in quantum physics.

This does not qualify her as a military expert.

I guarantee you she has alot more knowledge about such things than farmer boy Putin, who has the intellectual capabilities of a hillbilly.

Putin has a law degree and was a former KGB officer both of difficult feats.

Russia scares me as much as my sisters hamster.

You still live at home with your sister?