MOSCOW, July 24 (RIA Novosti) – Two Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jets (click here)were scrambled earlier this week in response to an alert that Russian airspace over the Baltic Sea had been violated by a small passenger plane, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
The Russian Aerospace Defense Forces detected an aircraft flying over Polish territory toward Gdansk Bay about 50 kilometers away from the Russian border on Monday night.
“At 8:26 p.m. on July 22, a Cessna plane crossed the Russian border over the Gdansk Bay without responding to calls [from Russian authorities],” the ministry said in a statement.
A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet stationed in the Kaliningrad Region was sent to establish the aircraft's identity and prevent its further movement into Russian airspace....
If this keeps up they are going to cause a war or something especially with all those Evangelicals getting their way.
TOKYO, July 16 (RIA Novosti) - Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force (click here) had to
scramble fighter jets in response to flights by Russian military
aircraft near Japanese airspace and over the disputed Kuril Islands on
Monday, local media reported.Two Tu-95 Bear bombers flew over the Sea of Japan moving from the Korean Peninsula, and proceeded along the Japanese archipelago to the north of Hokkaido. Another plane, the IL-20, flew over the Kuril Islands, NHK television said late Monday citing the Defense Ministry.
According to Japanese officials, the Russian aircraft had not violated the country’s airspace.
The Russian Defense Ministry later said that two Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bombers, flying a training mission as part of the snap military rills in the Eastern Military District, were followed by South Korean and Japanese fighter jets....
I need to write a letter to the White House about Japan's nuclear program. I am fairly certain they already have their own centrifuges.
MOSCOW, July 25 (RIA Novosti) – The scenario for a forthcoming NATO exercise (click here) in the ex-Soviet Baltic republics and Poland, in which those nations face invasion by a foreign power, is reminiscent of the Cold War period, Russia's Deputy Defense Minister said Thursday.
The exercise, dubbed Steadfast Jazz 2013, will be held in November in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. According to NATO, the primary purpose of the exercise is to test the command and control elements of NATO’s Response Force.
“As we prepared for this meeting, we carefully studied information received from NATO countries about Steadfast Jazz-2013,” Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov told a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels, according to the ministry's website.
“I can’t hide the fact that the Russian Defense Ministry was bewildered by the proclaimed goal of this exercise, which envisages the application of Article 5 of the Washington Treaty triggering a response to an aggression against Poland. These drills are in the spirit of the Cold War,” Antonov said.
The Zapad 2013 joint military exercises between Russia and Belarus in the fall this year will only simulate combat against terrorist groups and illegal armed formations penetrating Belarusian territory, he added.
Russia has held the largest exercises for its armed forces this year since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Defense Ministry said last week after a huge deployment and readiness test in the country's far east involving armor, aircraft and ships....
Well, this can't be good news. And they put it in the English version of the newspaper, too. Is that bold or what? At least in the USA when they do this kind of stuff the only people knowledgeable are the towns people and spies. And the blasted things being transported always look like flying saucers under a white tarp.
The launch is scheduled for 00:45 a.m. Moscow time on Sunday (20:45 GMT on Saturday).
The Progress M-20M will again return to the "short" six-hour flight path to the International Space Station. The last Progress M-19M cargo spacecraft launched in April 2013 reached the orbital outpost two days after liftoff....
