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Uncle Peter · 21-02-2015, 00:28

You have to laugh at the media being whipped up into a frenzy over this supposed increase in Russian naval aviation activity. This has been going on for at least the past 5 years since someone decided to station a Patriot air defence detachment 50 miles away from the border with Kaliningrad.

There's nothing covert about this as it's just a supposed show of strength. TU95s and Mig 31s are not the stealthiest of adversaries: in terms of radar cross-section it's like a flying tower block being escorted by a flying house. The Russians still run their strategic radio nets in the clear on HF albeit with coded messages but anyone with a basic receiver can hear activity when they're out and about. They still use CW (Morse code) when operating well out of theatre!

21-02-2015, 00:28	#115
Uncle Peter Inactive Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: on holiday by mistake Age: 56 Services: Vivid 200, Full House, V6 x2 Posts: 5,977	Re: Putin warning... You have to laugh at the media being whipped up into a frenzy over this supposed increase in Russian naval aviation activity. This has been going on for at least the past 5 years since someone decided to station a Patriot air defence detachment 50 miles away from the border with Kaliningrad. There's nothing covert about this as it's just a supposed show of strength. TU95s and Mig 31s are not the stealthiest of adversaries: in terms of radar cross-section it's like a flying tower block being escorted by a flying house. The Russians still run their strategic radio nets in the clear on HF albeit with coded messages but anyone with a basic receiver can hear activity when they're out and about. They still use CW (Morse code) when operating well out of theatre!