U.S. B-52s Flew Through China’s Newly Declared Air Defense Zone
November 26th, 2013Update: Japanese Airliners Also Ignoring Chinese Directive
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Via: CNN:
Two U.S. military aircraft flew into China’s newly claimed and challenged air defense zone over the East China Sea, a U.S. official said, an action that could inflame tensions between the world powers.
The large U.S. Air Force B-52 planes — which were not armed because they were on a training mission — set off Monday from Guam and returned there without incident. The mission lasted for several hours, and the aircraft were in China’s newly declared air zone for about an hour, according to the U.S. official.
The planes’ pilots did not identify themselves upon entering the disputed airspace, as China would have wanted, according to the official.
I think president Odumbass wants to be thought of as macho, like the Russians:
http://defense-update.com/20131106_kfir_vs_blackjack.html
Big difference in speed and age- the Russians send a couple of old cold war supersonic bombers halfway around the world and land in a couple inconsequential bananna republics, and our moron provokes a major nuclear power that has 240,000,000 wife-less soldiers and Russian allies with a pair of subsonic bombers built in 1963 at the latest but were designed circa 1952. He must be looking to organize a neighborhood that can blow us off the map in under 10 minutes.
Okay, where’s that popcorn .gif? This one bears watching…
Things seem to have ratcheted up a notch: http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/16659