#Black air force activity plus#
Click the AdBlock Plus icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.Refresh the page or click the button below to continue.Under “ Pause on this site” click “ Always”.Click the AdBlock icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.Nato, and Britain, must be at the top of their game to ensure that another “accident” isn’t used as a pretext to demand we step back – or that the increasingly reclusive occupant of the Kremlin doesn’t drag the world into armageddon.Adblock Adblock Plus Adblocker Ultimate Ghostery uBlock Origin Others Now he’s reduced to begging for ancient Soviet era shells, while modern Western armaments continue to flood into Ukraine. Russian troops are getting through biblical quantities of ammunition without any real effect. It’s no wonder he’s dragged himself far to the east to meet the plump tinpot dictator of North Korea: his forces are desperate for any edge they can get. This must be driving Putin absolutely mad. Our “spies in the skies” over the Black Sea see everything the Russian fleet is up to, and no doubt a great deal more – allowing British Storm Shadow missiles to target with pinpoint accuracy critical naval assets. It is clear that Moscow is willing to do almost anything to suppress Britain’s information-gathering activities. It would also allow UK intelligence to continue its critical role in this fight. If we speed up the delivery of modern aircraft, Western fighter jets can end any prospect of Russian air-superiority within days, giving Ukrainian armoured formations the room to manoeuvre so key to generating breakthroughs. If they can’t hit a massive target at point blank range, they certainly wouldn’t stand a chance against F-16s.
Given this, the best way to avoid a repeat would be to blow the Russians out of the sky.
Perhaps most worrying is the revelation that Russian pilots seem unwilling to follow orders, or are at the least being given confusing and vague instructions. This is unlikely to have been the only time where their pilots have made mistakes or misjudgments. But it is also a reminder of the total incompetence of the Russian Air Force. Given the potentially apocalyptic nature of the consequences, it’s easy to understand why the UK – and no doubt the US – tried to suppress the true nature of the event for so long. What would have been left would have had no choice but to surrender, or – a chilling thought – go nuclear. Overwhelming missile and jet strikes would eliminate every Russian asset outside of its borders within hours of the decision being made to wipe the Kremlin’s forces from the earth. And as we’ve learned in the last year, Russia’s army is paper thin a modern Western army would punch through their defences without a second thought. Nato would have had no choice but to respond with overwhelming force. It is no exaggeration to say that it could easily have started World War Three up to thirty British crewmen, and their aircraft, incapable of hostile action, killed in cold blood in neutral airspace. If either missile had worked as intended, we would have entered a crisis of staggering consequence. The first missile failed to achieve target lock the second fell harmlessly into the sea. This was brought home sharply yesterday, when we learned that almost exactly a year ago we came within a single technological failure of war between Nato and Russia.Īn unarmed RAF surveillance aircraft, operating in international airspace over the Black Sea, was fired on by an incompetent – or deranged – Russian pilot. This is still an incredibly dangerous situation, ripe with potential for tragedy. People seem to view the war as the “new normal”. As Putin’s invasion grinds on, the risk of escalation has drifted away from headlines.
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