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2023-03-16 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
March Black Sea Reaper Incident: It turned out inconvenient
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Posted by badanov 2023-03-16 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top

#1 When playing chicken goes wrong.
Posted by badanov 2023-03-16 06:23||   2023-03-16 06:23|| Front Page Top

#2 ...I've seen this movie.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-03-16 09:07||   2023-03-16 09:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Representatives of the Department of Defense of the United States of America erased all valuable information from an unmanned device that fell in the Black Sea. This was told to journalists by the chairman of the Committee of Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, General Mark Milley, during a press conference

"The preferred pronouns were removed remotely"
Posted by Frank G 2023-03-16 09:14||   2023-03-16 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Russian ships at US drone crash site in Black Sea, US official says: 'They wasted no time'
Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-16 09:51||   2023-03-16 09:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Rig the rest of them with claymores. Come a little closer you SOB's.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-16 10:01||   2023-03-16 10:01|| Front Page Top

#6 They were pretty close.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-16 10:09||   2023-03-16 10:09|| Front Page Top

#7 US sees spike in unprofessional Russian Air Force behavior over Syria
Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-16 10:54||   2023-03-16 10:54|| Front Page Top

#8 And what is most interesting. Nobody shot down an American drone.

This crossed my mind when the story broke.

I think we are all adult enough to know that drone wasn't on a meteorological flight, collecting barometric pressures to combat global warming.

A shootdown, from either side, would have been madness.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-03-16 10:57||   2023-03-16 10:57|| Front Page Top

#9 A shootdown, from either side, would have been madness.

Yes, but remember, we have Putin on one side and Biden on the other.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-03-16 13:24||   2023-03-16 13:24|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm not worried about Biden. I'm worried about "Biden".

I listened to Lunch Vader's account of this incident. It sounded like an uninspired voice acting audition.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-03-16 13:34||   2023-03-16 13:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Russian pilots participated in Korea. We killed a lot of Russians in Afghanistan. There was the Cuban Missile Crisis. There was the Pueblo. We were flying an intel drone in waters were we assisted in the sinking of an iconic Russian war vessel. This has been going on since after WWII.

It says something that Joe Biden is acting more rational than Lindsey Graham. He is a worse actor than Jossie Smollett. He is not acting in our interests. Reagan was not an idiot.
Posted by Tarzan Brown3666 2023-03-16 13:39||   2023-03-16 13:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Has Milley called Putin to let him know if we will bomb Russia or not?
Posted by Itsoktobewhite 2023-03-16 13:41||   2023-03-16 13:41|| Front Page Top

#13 I would say the chances of this drone flight being the first of its kind as slim.

I would also say that the Migs likely didn't accidentally come within wash range.

That would imply Russia made a conscience effort to disrupt this flight without a shootdown.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-03-16 13:41||   2023-03-16 13:41|| Front Page Top

#14 "imply Russia made a conscience effort to disrupt this flight without a shootdown"

Absolutely
Posted by mossomo 2023-03-16 14:20||   2023-03-16 14:20|| Front Page Top

#15 If we really want to freak out the Russians, just tell them we're giving the Ukrainians the "Assault Breaker" system (BLU-108 Submunitions). Watch how fast they crap their pants.
Posted by Silentbrick 2023-03-16 17:01||   2023-03-16 17:01|| Front Page Top

#16 Can some smart bubblehead here at the burg advise if we have submarine launched munitions capable of making the Reaper just a pile of scrap before Russkies dredge it up and give it to the Iranians to reverse engineer?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-03-16 19:23||   2023-03-16 19:23|| Front Page Top

#17 #14 Correct. The Russers acted with upmost restraint, where we used high tech to shoot down balloons. For those keeping score - we lose the next round. 'just how it goes.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-03-16 19:25||   2023-03-16 19:25|| Front Page Top

#18 if we have submarine launched munitions capable of making the Reaper just a pile of scrap before Russkies dredge it up

Maybe we could get the guys that did the Nordstream job. Unless they are busy working on something new...
Posted by SteveS 2023-03-16 19:35||   2023-03-16 19:35|| Front Page Top

#19 RETRO
Navy begins deep-sea recovery mission for remains of 5 sailors and helicopter wreckage
Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-16 19:49||   2023-03-16 19:49|| Front Page Top

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