Russia Revives Long Range Bomber Force

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Canadians have had a tough time. I sincerely wish we could create a coalition of English speaking nations. That would include the bilingual Scandinavians if they could resist their socialist urges. NATO looks weak at the mo. Afg mission looks even weaker.

Sorry for thread creep. Pleased for the Typhoon backers though, at least they have something to cheer, the good, bad old days are back.

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Originally Posted by Ontariotech

Well, like the old saying goes, you don't put on a condom, unless your going to .
And our jets that are scrambled to meet these Bear Bombers, are they armed? You bet. It would not be a big stretch to say the Russians Bears are armed with nukes.

I recall a crash by a Bear on to Jan Mayen possibly late 60s early 70s. It was one of a pair and the other did not know the crash location. There was no nuclear issue with this crash.

There would be nothing to be gained by carrying nukes in peactime especially with the ever present potential for a defection.

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Wondered what you think

The fact that every party in the Norwegian parliament apart from the Socialist (SV) was ready to back a proposal to send the Telemark Batallion battle group the Helmand last winter (In addition to the Bn in Mazar i S.)summs it up really.

They (SV) have Norway leaving NATO in their charter, and since they are in a coalition goverment, they are throwing all sorts of wreches in the works. A party with 6,8% of the votes has Veto'ed a lot. They put a caveat on the deployment of 150 SOF soldiers in the spring. Just 6 months, and not outside the Kabul region. Embarrasing!
5 or 6 F-16s would have been in Afg. this summer too, had it not been for them.

Mind you they are not as bad as the communists (RV), their leader called the killing of a Norwegian SF soldier by the Taliban last month "a just defence against Nato aggresion".

To steer the tread back onto the Russians, the socialst haven't got the guts to say what they really mean: They don't want help from NATO.
Thankfully their 2 coaltion partners are strong Nato supporters.

I wonder if they rally know who has paid for 75% of the cost of the three last AW radars in the Bardufoss and North Cape areas at a cost of 132 million £.