The Pentagon took over the remote Tin City site decades ago and built a long-range radar station to help detect a surprise attack from the Soviet Union. Michael Dinneen / For The Times
L.A. Times: Intent of Russian military aircraft near U.S. shores remains unclear
The air is frigid and the wind is howling as Air Force Col. Frank Flores lifts a pair of foot-long binoculars and studies a hazy dot about 50 miles west across the Bering Strait.
"That's the mainland there," he shouts above the gusts.
It's Siberia, part of Russia, on the Asian mainland.
Named for an old mining camp, Tin City is a tiny Air Force installation atop an ice-shrouded coastal mountain 50 miles below the Arctic Circle, far from any road or even trees. The Pentagon took over the remote site decades ago and built a long-range radar station to help detect a surprise attack from the Soviet Union.
At least from this frozen perch, America's closest point to Vladimir Putin's Russia, the Cold War is turning warm again.
WNU Editor: The Russians are doing these encounters for the same reason that the U.S. is deploying soldiers near the Russian border .... US Expands Forces In Europe To Deter Russia's Military Movements (IBTimes) .... it is to deter and to intimidate.
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Russia has a lot to do to catch up to the US in the cold war that continued on a one sided basis for decades.
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