In article ,
dave wrote:

Telamon wrote:
In article ,


We are putting missiles on Russia's doorstep. This is their response.

SNIP

They are not nuclear missiles Dave.

They are conventional defense missiles.

For which the effective countermeasure IS a nuclear weapon. The end
result is the same; destabilization and menace.

The nukes on the bombers are offensive weapons. There is no comparison
to a conventional defensive missile. You are not making sense.

These defensive missiles are designed to shoot down an ICBM. These
handful of missiles could also stop ICBM's from Russia but they can only
stop a few at best and Russia has thousands. Since this is the case why
should Russia be concerned? It's not like a Russia nuclear response
could be compromised in some way by them.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

In article ,
dxAce wrote:

Monitoring opportunities?

http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/art...1&aid=29691183
(via SmokeyKat, MilCom list)

That photo sure brings back memories. I remember those boys buzzing
us from time to time just above the deck and a few hundred feet away.
We'd wave at each other!

Later, I remember monitoring them as they transited along the east
coast USA, sending position reports in Russian Morse. At the time
there was an article in either PopCom or Monitoring Times giving
details on how to decode those posit reports.

I guess boredom set in after hundreds of hours flying and they got to do
something exciting. That had to be quite a sight with a bomber that
close. How fast do you think they were traveling when they flew by you?

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Telamon
Ventura, California

Telamon wrote:

In article ,
dxAce wrote:

Monitoring opportunities?

http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/art...1&aid=29691183
(via SmokeyKat, MilCom list)

That photo sure brings back memories. I remember those boys buzzing
us from time to time just above the deck and a few hundred feet away.
We'd wave at each other!

Later, I remember monitoring them as they transited along the east
coast USA, sending position reports in Russian Morse. At the time
there was an article in either PopCom or Monitoring Times giving
details on how to decode those posit reports.

I guess boredom set in after hundreds of hours flying and they got to do
something exciting. That had to be quite a sight with a bomber that
close. How fast do you think they were traveling when they flew by you?

Not terribly fast, at least at the time. I'd guess 150 to 200 MPH. There were
several of them in most cases. Quite the site.

An interesting aircraft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95

dxAce wrote:

Telamon wrote:

In article ,
dxAce wrote:

Monitoring opportunities?

http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/art...1&aid=29691183
(via SmokeyKat, MilCom list)

That photo sure brings back memories. I remember those boys buzzing
us from time to time just above the deck and a few hundred feet away.
We'd wave at each other!

Later, I remember monitoring them as they transited along the east
coast USA, sending position reports in Russian Morse. At the time
there was an article in either PopCom or Monitoring Times giving
details on how to decode those posit reports.

I guess boredom set in after hundreds of hours flying and they got to do
something exciting. That had to be quite a sight with a bomber that
close. How fast do you think they were traveling when they flew by you?

Not terribly fast, at least at the time. I'd guess 150 to 200 MPH. There were
several of them in most cases. Quite the site.

An interesting aircraft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95

I just noticed this, in the above article:

During the height of the Cold War, the long range of the Tu-95 was demonstrated
weekly as a pair of Tu-95s would fly from the Kola peninsula to Cuba along the
east coast of the United States, escorted continuously along the way.[7]

This is obviously what some of us were listening to, back in the day.

dxAce
Michigan
USA