Cold War
So The Cold War Really Isn’t Over Yet?
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A Russian bomber is escorted by an F-22 off the west coast of Alaska on May 21. (NORAD photo) Are the Russians getting jiggy again? The Chairforce has been escorting Russia’s Bears and their fighter jet escorts back to their own space for about five months now. https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/05/22/russian-fighters-bombers-intercepted-off-alaska-for-2nd-day-in-a-row-5th-time-this-year/ From the article: For the second day […]
B-52 resurrected from the Boneyard
Col. Robert Burgess, 307th Operations Group commander, gives a thumbs up after flying a B-52 Stratofortress, nicknamed “Wise Guy,” to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, May 14. The bomber had been at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, since 2008. It took a team of reserve and active duty airmen […]
Those Darn UFOs Are On Again
An Irish airline pilot and another from a different airline, plus two pilots from Virgin Airlines reported a high-speed light off the Irish coast in 2018, all reporting that it turned right and moved off twice the speed of sound, which is within the capabilities of military jets. Experimental aircraft are known to be able […]
So Much For Russia/Trump Collusion, eh?
I’ve always known that Vlad Putin was a butthead, but he’s been getting frisky for a while. His real interest lies in Venezuela’s oil. We all know that, and it is despite his having the largest shale oil reserves on the planet. But he doesn’t know how to do what we know how to do […]
The Cold War is dead… and it had better stay dead
None of this ever appears in my local newspaper, probably because it’s either posted online or brought up for a one-minute look-see in the rather vapid evening news reports. If the real news is not being published in print, are we required to go searching for it? Apparently, the answer to that is ‘yes’, because […]
Finally declassified: Swedish pilots awarded US Air Medals for saving SR-71 spy plane
The SR-71, unofficially known as the “Blackbird,” was a long-range, advanced strategic reconnaissance aircraft. (Air Force) By: Kyle Rempfer More than 31 years ago, the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union remained icy, and the Berlin Wall had yet to come down. U.S. Air Force pilots were engaged in secret reconnaissance missions […]
Another Cold War Ghost Story
By Poetrooper Yesterday, in response to Dave’s article, “Ghosts for the Gullible” all of the comments I read were full of sarcasm and scorn for a soldier and his widow because TAH readers have seen and heard it all. But I do know that the best con jobs are always seeded with just enough of […]
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