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The Russians are coming

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,512
in Not Sports Related
MOD confirm that two Russian bombers flew within 25 miles of English coast. UK fighters scrambled and civil flights disrupted.

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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,168
    Bet Lineker was getting all excited
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    edited January 2015
    Couple of old TU95s. They're about 60 years old.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,456
    ......."Don't Panic".......... The "Minster on Sea" Home Guard are primed and waiting, they don't like it up 'em....
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,990
    Addickted said:

    Couple of old TU95s. They're about 60 years old.

    Like a few of us on here.



  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,799
    image
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,990
    There were only 2 of them, Tango!


  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,456
    Oggy Red said:

    There were only 2 of them, Tango!


    "Tango, Victor, Charlie"....... To you and I Oggy......*over*
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,792
    T.C.E said:

    ......."Don't Panic".......... The "Minster on Sea" Home Guard are primed and waiting, they don't like it up 'em....

    Minster's not on sea . . . :-)
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,661
    He meant Walmington. Stupid boy :-)
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 21,105
    Airman Brown said:

    T.C.E said:

    ......."Don't Panic".......... The "Minster on Sea" Home Guard are primed and waiting, they don't like it up 'em....

    Minster's not on sea . . . :-)
    We're doomed.

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  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,458
    edited January 2015
    They've been winding us up for decades. Just send up the Lord Flashheart n a Tiger Moth...

    Dahdahdadarhhhhh!

    image

    Huzzarh!
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    been happening for the last couple of years, russia trying to work out NATO defense responses etc.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,106
    Don't know why we don't shoot one down if encroaches our air space. That'll teach them.
  • WhenIwasLittleBoy
    WhenIwasLittleBoy Posts: 5,430
    They have been doing it all of Europe for the last two years.
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    MrOneLung said:

    Don't know why we don't shoot one down if encroaches our air space. That'll teach them.

    Yeah lets start ww3.
    I assume you are willing to be the first to die?
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,307
    Putin's a tosser
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Absurdistan said:

    MrOneLung said:

    Don't know why we don't shoot one down if encroaches our air space. That'll teach them.

    Yeah lets start ww3.
    I assume you are willing to be the first to die?
    It's a good job that the Russians haven't shot down any planes recently then.
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    edited January 2015
    Addickted said:

    Couple of old TU95s. They're about 60 years old.

    Ive found my notebook in my anorak and can state that were being built up to 1992, and that they are still being upgraded and modified and will continue to serve until at least 2030.

    If you will excuse me the warm milk in my thermos has gone cold, and I need to repair the tape holding my glasses together.
  • Folev the red
    Folev the red Posts: 2,087
    With all the broken promises the west has made over the past twenty years, after moving NATO onto Russia's borders, and after the support we gave to the mobs in Kiev that overthrew the democratically elected President of Europe's 6th biggest country, I'm really struggling to now give Putin too much stick over recent events - Russia has every right to fly their planes where they did.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,314
    edited January 2015
    Piggy

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  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,278
    Folev the red said:

    With all the broken promises the west has made over the past twenty years, after moving NATO onto Russia's borders, and after the support we gave to the mobs in Kiev that overthrew the democratically elected President of Europe's 6th biggest country, I'm really struggling to now give Putin too much stick over recent events - Russia has every right to fly their planes where they did.

    It's not a game of "Risk". These "countries on Russia's borders" are full of real people who do not wish to live under Russian influence, just as, I suppose, you don't want to. It's probably true that we have made mistakes re Ukraine, but that is quite different to, bringing the Baltic States into NATO, if you were also referring to that. In fact if you read Edward Lucas' latest book you will realise that we British owe the Estonians, big time, for multiple betrayals when they trusted us.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,263
    edited January 2015
    Relax, it's just CharltonMow.
  • Addictedoldgit
    Addictedoldgit Posts: 1,848
    Folev the red said:

    With all the broken promises the west has made over the past twenty years, after moving NATO onto Russia's borders, and after the support we gave to the mobs in Kiev that overthrew the democratically elected President of Europe's 6th biggest country, I'm really struggling to now give Putin too much stick over recent events - Russia has every right to fly their planes where they did.

    IMO Putin is a thug at heart and Putin's Russia is fast becoming a Mafia state. The Litvinenko assassination surely could not have happened without getting the nod from the top man.
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,973
    Really glad we (sorry, the tories) scrapped those pesky Nimrods
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    edited January 2015
    EastTerrace said:

    Really glad we (sorry, the tories) scrapped those pesky Nimrods

    The only nimrods that worked were the maritime patrol ones which wouldnt have been any good here, the airborne early warning planes were still being developed (years late), and we have now bought 7 AEW Boeings to do that job.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,234
    Folev the red said:

    With all the broken promises the west has made over the past twenty years, after moving NATO onto Russia's borders, and after the support we gave to the mobs in Kiev that overthrew the democratically elected President of Europe's 6th biggest country, I'm really struggling to now give Putin too much stick over recent events - Russia has every right to fly their planes where they did.

    Umm, with a name like Folev the Red - one of the thug's minions I assume?
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,278
    Addictedoldgit said:

    Folev the red said:

    With all the broken promises the west has made over the past twenty years, after moving NATO onto Russia's borders, and after the support we gave to the mobs in Kiev that overthrew the democratically elected President of Europe's 6th biggest country, I'm really struggling to now give Putin too much stick over recent events - Russia has every right to fly their planes where they did.

    IMO Putin is a thug at heart and Putin's Russia is fast becoming a Mafia state. The Litvinenko assassination surely could not have happened without getting the nod from the top man.
    I agree except that it already has become a mafia state. Bill Browders new book should be well worth a read. As are the blow by blow accounts from the Litvinenko public enquiry. Marina Litvinenko is already in my book one of the bravest people on the planet. She has stood up to Putin, persuaded Teresa May to change her mind, and fights for justice for her husband even after he has passed away. The real Russian soul on display there. She deserves our support. Putin and his cronies deserve our contempt.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,106
    Absurdistan said:

    MrOneLung said:

    Don't know why we don't shoot one down if encroaches our air space. That'll teach them.

    Yeah lets start ww3.
    I assume you are willing to be the first to die?
    If they come in our airspace, shoot them down.



  • BDL
    BDL Posts: 6,028
    My worry with Putin is the more the oil price is deliberately driven down the more stupid his reaction and retaliation will be.

    Dangerous times.



  • Plumstead_Micky
    Plumstead_Micky Posts: 932
    BDL said:

    My worry with Putin is the more the oil price is deliberately driven down the more stupid his reaction and retaliation will be.

    Dangerous times.



    Yeah, a dangerous game, backing someone into a corner. He'll have nothing to lose will he?

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