Busy days at Olenya Air Base south of Murmansk. The satellite image from May 7 shows, among others, two Tu-160 and 12 Tu-95 strategic bombers capable of carrying duel-use cruise missiles; conventional- or nuclear-armed. Photo courtesy @MT_Anderson
EurAsian Times: Russia’s Nuclear-Capable Tu-95, Tu-160 Bombers Deployed Near NATO Border As Tensions Escalate With Ukraine
With Russia’s continuous use of its strategic bombers, including the Tu-95 and the Tu-160, for launching conventional stand-off attacks on Ukraine, satellite images have revealed that there has been an unexpected surge of these bombers in Russia’s north close to the NATO border.
A fresh set of satellite images of the Olenya Air Base in Russia’s Kola peninsula revealed that about 16 strategic bombers had been deployed to this air base close to the NATO countries, Finland and Norway, The Barents Observer reported.
The air base is located in the closed town of Olenegorsk-2, which is an hour’s drive south of Murmansk. The base currently houses 14 Tu-5 bombers, two Tu-160 bombers, and two Tu-22M bombers, besides other heavy transport aircraft, as could be shown in the satellite images.
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Update #1: Satellite image shows 16 strategic bombers deployed to Kola Peninsula (The Barents Observer)
Update #2: POISED TO STRIKE Chilling photo shows EIGHTEEN Russian nuke bombers near Nato border as Putin threatens UK over Ukraine missiles (The SUN)
WNU Editor: I think this deployment has more to do with distancing these bombers away from Ukraine's borders.
6 comments:
There's a pretty good chance one or more of these will be destroyed by crews smoking cigarettes or friendly sams.
Funny how it constantly happens on russian air bases. Unexpected fires. No damage to anything, ever. Lol
The Republic of Moldova is about to leave the Russian-dominated "Commonwealth of Independent States" (CIS). The first step, the withdrawal from the CIS assembly, has already been done. The next step is the formal termination of membership.
The main reason is Russia's ongoing support of so-called Transnistria, which is currently occupying Moldovan territory in the East of the country.
Hopefully, the inclement weather ages these planes faster.
Russia has so much money for maintenance as shown by their wonderfully refurbished surface fleet.
Subs get taken care of. Surface vessels not so much.
But Russia rolling in dough we are told.
Vatniks
>Subs get taken care of. Surface vessels not so much.
That is intelligent though.
When the debt bubble pops do you think we're going to keep spending half a trillion dollars on a mostly useless surface fleet?
You could defend all of America with a dozen nuclear subs. Who's going to attack when two of them can kill hundreds of millions in retaliation? Nobody.
Ergo, if you're at all concerned about not maxxing out the credit card of your imperial subjects, it's just sound fiscal policy.
When drone aircraft are at the stage where human pilots are no longer necessary the victor will be the power that adapts to modern conditions and replaces expensive legacy systems, instead of propping them up decades past their expiration date.
Are these old Google earth images or are they updated?
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