North Pole Resident
09-11-2008, 01:17 AM
It seems like the American empire is getting nervous - they dispatched their fighters to follow Russian bombers over the Arctic and Atlantic oceans...
:)
3 hours ago:
From CNN:
Two Russian bombers land in Venezuela
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/09zUbXc1j46k3/610x.jpg
Russia's supersonic Tu-160 strategic bomber
(CNN) -- Two Russian bombers have landed at a Venezuelan airfield, from which they will carry out training flights for several days, the Russian news agency Interfax reported Wednesday.
1 of 2 The Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers landed at Venezuela's Libertador military airfield and "will spend several days carrying out training flights over neutral waters, after which they will return to the base," Interfax reported, citing the Russian Defense Ministry.
Col. Alexander Drobyshevsky, a ministry spokesman, told Interfax that NATO fighters followed the bombers on their 13-hour flight over the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic.
"All flights by air force aircraft have been and are marked by strict conformity to the international rules on the use of air space over neutral waters," Drobyshevsky told Interfax.
On Monday, Russia announced it might hold joint naval maneuvers with Venezuela in the Caribbean. The declaration came in the wake of increased tension between Russia and the United States over Russia's invasion last month of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, a U.S. ally that aspires to join NATO.
READ MORE -- http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/10/russia.venezuela/index.html?eref=rss_latest
:)
3 hours ago:
From CNN:
Two Russian bombers land in Venezuela
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/09zUbXc1j46k3/610x.jpg
Russia's supersonic Tu-160 strategic bomber
(CNN) -- Two Russian bombers have landed at a Venezuelan airfield, from which they will carry out training flights for several days, the Russian news agency Interfax reported Wednesday.
1 of 2 The Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers landed at Venezuela's Libertador military airfield and "will spend several days carrying out training flights over neutral waters, after which they will return to the base," Interfax reported, citing the Russian Defense Ministry.
Col. Alexander Drobyshevsky, a ministry spokesman, told Interfax that NATO fighters followed the bombers on their 13-hour flight over the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic.
"All flights by air force aircraft have been and are marked by strict conformity to the international rules on the use of air space over neutral waters," Drobyshevsky told Interfax.
On Monday, Russia announced it might hold joint naval maneuvers with Venezuela in the Caribbean. The declaration came in the wake of increased tension between Russia and the United States over Russia's invasion last month of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, a U.S. ally that aspires to join NATO.
READ MORE -- http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/10/russia.venezuela/index.html?eref=rss_latest