by cookiengineer
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- For the last 60 years, Russia behaved like this to test NATO's defenses constantly.
Only once was an incursion to Turkish airspace. After a warning it was shot down. Never happened again.
You tell me what's the better strategy to deal with Russia.
If you give leeway to a bully, the bully's gonna keep on bullying.
- I do enjoy some military fiction as much as the next guy, but without some sources this might as well just be that.
- > This is why another similar move hasn’t happened, and why Russia will think twice before it does so again.
It literally happened again the following month. Is this an AI generated article or something?
- There is no place called 'Udem' in Germany. There is a place called Uden in the Netherlands. Close to it is the military Volkel Air Base. It has fighter jets and nuclear bombs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkel_Air_Base
- This reads cool and all, but I also can't help help but feel like it might not have been as much of a 'gotcha' as the text makes it out to be. Who knows what kind of information the Russians got from this episode. The closer the NATO response is to what would actually happen in a combat scenario, the more valuable such a provocation is to them, I suspect.
- I'd say the only source listed is the guy who wrote it, but he doesn't even give his actual name...
- Useless propaganda piece.
To probably quote Terry Pratchett, at least it is proper-ganda.
- If breathlessness was a writing style. Seriously tiring when every other paragraph is a soft trailer for action much later on.
Which, by the way, is all conjecture. Even if everything happened as described (citation needed), they have no idea what the Russians knew. For a piss-them-off mission like this, watching the response and playing dumb seems far wiser than reacting.
by catlikesshrimp
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- It might have been generated. It reads exactly like some generic voice talking on FB.
I am on the side of this propaganda, but it's propagansa.
- I think someone should also tell the Russians that.
- A bit too horray-patriotic for my tastes.
What actually happened:
- A group of 40 year old Russian interceptors flew just beyond the airspace border, to test NATO response times.
- NATO responded and revealed capabilities
- someone in Russian military R&D got new data to work with.
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