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Landing in blizzards is one of the requirements for qualifying to fly the TU-22. Landing under adverse conditions, on instruments only and without airfield assistance is also required. It's called realistic training. They do this all the time because the pilots have to requalify every so many hours just like the pilots anywhere else.
Were this the time of war I doubt there would even be the tail light of a truck on anywhere in the area let alone the landing strip lights. Why make your airbase a nice brightly lit target covered in pretty lights?
Russian pilots are crazy and damn good at what they do. They train for the real thing. The chopper pilots are even crazier.
Satellite crystal eye will find your airfield enywhere with navigation lights or not.
You're thinking like an officer during WWII.
The Russian-Georgian war proved the low combat effectiveness of this widow makers named "russian strategic bombers".
What is at stake for Russia in Venezuela?
Russia could lose a lot if Nicolas Maduro is ousted in Venezuela. Moscow's massive loans to Caracas are only one piece of the puzzle — Venezuelan oil reserves could bring down the price of oil and upset Russia's economy.
I can't agree with you. Sanctions on Venezuela IMPOSED by the US and others are what is hurting Venezuela.
Don't hide your true colors comrade. Easy for you to say while safe and sound in the big bad USA. While millions starve and are denied their rights you parrot Putin propaganda from the safety of a society that protects you from him. Its all America's fault somehow that the entire free world says Maduro stole the election and doesn't have legitimate power in a country that his policies have ruined. I wonder how you rationalize your contradiction that US sanctions help Russia but harm Venezuela.
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I see China building the the New Silk Road. They're in Kazakhstan now and heading down the Indus River valley in Pakistan. This is going to give a billion people the opportunity to better themselves.
The Silk Road was replaced 200 years ago by these things called ships that go on water. People in central Asia are never going to have a better life until they throw off the shackles of oppression. China, Russia and their client despots will never allow that.
The US is continuing to airlift some members of the ISIS units to the bitter end.
Ummm, that "advance" was in 2017. Got anything newer? Russian propaganda is known for inaccuracy but claiming we are airlifting out ISIS while fighting to remove them is a bit outlandish.
Satellite crystal eye will find your airfield enywhere with navigation lights or not.
You're thinking like an officer during WWII.
The Russian-Georgian war proved the low combat effectiveness of this widow makers named "russian strategic bombers".
You are the one that are not thinking instead...
Satellite positioning huh?? How you assume that your satellites have been not taken out in case of war?? Hmm
Military pilots should be trained for the worst possible conditions.
The TU-22M is still a fine airplane for the missions is supposed to perform.
The TU-22M is still a fine airplane for the missions is supposed to perform.
Bombing hospitals and subverting democracy in far away lands?
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