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General Jeff Harrigan, Commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, told reporters this month that "if we have to go in there to take down, for instance, the Kaliningrad IADS [Integrated Air Defense System], let there be no doubt we have a plan to go after that," according to Breaking Defense. He added: "We train to that. We think through those plans all the time, and... if that would ever come to fruition, we'd be ready to execute."
While the top official did not go into details, he said such an operation "would be a multi-domain, very timely and effective."
I can imagine the response from Russia and its media will be the usual hysteria.
It's irrelevant. The Russians know that Kaliningrad would not hold out long under a NATO assault. It would have a price attached though and it would be small potatoes to what would becoming for all those involved. I question whether the aircraft involved in the attack would have a place to land on their victorious return.
If this did come about, what would NATO do with all the Russians there?
General Jeff Harrigan, Commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, told reporters this month that "if we have to go in there to take down, for instance, the Kaliningrad IADS [Integrated Air Defense System], let there be no doubt we have a plan to go after that," according to Breaking Defense. He added: "We train to that. We think through those plans all the time, and... if that would ever come to fruition, we'd be ready to execute."
While the top official did not go into details, he said such an operation "would be a multi-domain, very timely and effective."
I can imagine the response from Russia and its media will be the usual hysteria.
On 9 August 2019, the Russian nuclear energy agency Rosatom confirmed a release of radiation at the Nyonoksa missile testing site near Severodvinsk in northern Russia and stated it was linked to an accident involving the test of an "isotope power source for a liquid-fuelled rocket engine".[10][11] Nonproliferation expert Jeffrey Lewis and Federation of American Scientists fellow Ankit Panda suspect the incident resulted from a test of the Burevestnik cruise missile.[12] However, the researcher Michael Kofman, Fellow at the Wilson Center disputed the assertions, and believes the explosion was probably not related to Burevestnik.[13] Five weapons scientists were killed in the accident.[14][15]
On 26 August, Aleksei Karpov, Russia’s envoy to international organizations in Vienna, stated that the accident was linked to the development of weapons which Russia had to begin creating as "one of the tit-for-tat measures in the wake of the United States’ withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty".[16]
It's irrelevant. The Russians know that Kaliningrad would not hold out long under a NATO assault. It would have a price attached though and it would be small potatoes to what would becoming for all those involved. I question whether the aircraft involved in the attack would have a place to land on their victorious return.
If this did come about, what would NATO do with all the Russians there?
Just wondering.
Send them back to Russia just like they kicked out the Germans there 70 years ago.
Send them back to Russia just like they kicked out the Germans there 70 years ago.
Almost all the native Prussians fled the area before the onslaught of the Red Army or were killed in the invasion and/or the aftermath. Russians were moved in because it was considered a vital assets in the late 1940s.
After the USSR pulled out it was offered to Lithuania but they didn't want it, too many Russians who didn't like the idea. It was offered to Germany, same thing. So Russia inherited it.
Solution? Make it a separate neutral state and give it a whole bunch of nuclear weapons to ensure its neutrality considering the neighbors.
Forewarned is forearmed. Thank you comrade! The Revolution will not forget you!
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