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Comment by Frances Farmer on May 6, 2014 at 8:58pm

I just had a "duh" moment. The U2 spy plane debacle last week: the few pieces I read said that they are from the "cold war era" but still in use, and an article from yesterday said

"The U-2 filed all the proper flight plan paperwork and was conducting its operation in accordance with those filings," he said, adding it was not unusual for the plane to be conducting operations in that area."

Maybe they still use them because Russia's communications and operating systems are/thought to be still old school?

If this was a training exercise, and not unusual for these planes to be in the area... why a problem on that day? Russia has to have current commercial plane and traffic control programs, obviously. But maybe this was to test a tweaked operating system on the U2 and how it would be detected by universal traffic control systems, and how it would interact with standard U2-like programing if it flew into Russian airspace. 

I know less than zero about planes.

Comment by Less Prone on May 6, 2014 at 6:45pm

Ant they are trying to make us believe that  Russia is expanding, just as Palestinian territory under jackboot terror.

Comment by Frances Farmer on May 2, 2014 at 4:14am

Damn. NATO will probably go in now. "Ukraine attacks rebel city, helicopter shot down http://news.yahoo.com/pro-russian-rebels-ukraine-launches-operation...

Comment by Frances Farmer on May 2, 2014 at 2:03am

WASHINGTON — The United States and some of its NATO allies see Russia’s intervention in Ukraine as a post-Cold war turning point, possibly ending two decades of hope that Moscow could be made a lasting security partner.

NATO’s deputy secretary general, Alexander Vershbow, said Thursday that the alliance is compelled to view Russia as an adversary in light of its annexation of Crimea and its apparent efforts to further destabilize eastern Ukraine.

Vershbow, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO and one-time Pentagon official, said Russia’s interventionist stance of late poses “grave challenges” to global security arrangements that have developed since the end of the Second World War.

“What the Russians have done … is effectively overturned a lot of the pillars of the international security system that we’ve come to know and be comfortable with,” he said. http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/world/NATO+Russia+adversary/979...

Comment by Frances Farmer on April 8, 2014 at 3:11pm

NATO's European expansion since the fall of the Soviet Union, beware of "Russian Imperialism"

From Phil Greaves