Australian air force put on alert after Russian long-range bombers headed south

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Source: The Guardian

An Australian air force base was put on alert while Russian strategic bombers conducted exercises in neutral waters off Indonesia, a move experts said showed Moscow was looking to extend its influence in the Pacific.

The base in Darwin was briefly put on a state of “increased readiness” in early December during the Russian exercises, which, according to the Russian Ministry of Defence, involved two nuclear-capable Tu-95MS bombers and more than 100 personnel.

RT, the Kremlin-backed English-language news channel, reported the exercise was the first Russian air patrol in the Pacific launched from Indonesia.

One of Australia’s foremost national security experts, Peter Jennings of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said the exercises showed Russia was again extending its influence to the peripheries of the world. “It is a reminder Russia is here and wants to be a player in Pacific security and will use military force to demonstrate that,” he told the ABC.



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1. Meanwhile Colonel Combover is enabling Putin's aggression.

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2. They're paying him for it, so at least he has motivation.

And then there's that little thing the Russian's like to have on cultivated spies, kompromat.

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3. The old bear still lives...

They've been provocatively flying Bears since the 60's. Extremely long legs, but painfully slow, ugly and noisy as hell. They are a statement more than a threat. Shooting them down would be like shooting fish in a barrel. It's the statement they're making not the weapon system itself that's the point.