Tuesday, April 07, 2015


Russian Aircraft Edges Close to US


Tupolev Tu-95 Bomber

Named for an old mining camp, Tin City is a tiny Air Force installation atop an ice-shrouded coastal mountain 50 miles below the Arctic Circle, far from any road or even trees. The Pentagon took over the remote site decades ago and built a long-range radar station to help detect a surprise attack from the Soviet Union.

At least from this frozen perch, America's closest point to Vladimir Putin's Russia, the Cold War is turning warm again.

U.S. F-22 fighter jets scrambled about 10 times last year — twice as often as in 2013 — to monitor and photograph Russian Tu-95 "Bear" bombers and MiG-31 fighter jets that flew over the Bering Sea without communicating with U.S. air controllers or turning on radio transponders, which emit identifying signals.
Spooky, eh?

2 comments:

Wireless.Phil said...

Nothing new about this, they were reported off California last year.
Also over Sweden and Canada.

Not much was said about it in the news, at least not the major networks.

Wireless.Phil said...

Yesterday

US aerospace command moving comms gear back to Cold War bunker

Washington (AFP) - The US military command that scans North America's skies for enemy missiles and aircraft plans to move its communications gear to a Cold War-era mountain bunker, officers said.

The shift to the Cheyenne Mountain base in Colorado is designed to safeguard the command's sensitive sensors and servers from a potential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, military officers said.
news.yahoo.com/us-aerospace-command-moving-comms-gear-back-cold-015320113.html

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