U.S. Overflight

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In an attempt to promote transparency in military activities between the two countries, Russia will conduct an observation flight over the United States as part of the Treaty on Open Skies between Dec. 8 and Dec. 13, Sergei Ryzhkov, head of Russia’s National Nuclear Risk Reduction Center, said Monday.

The flight will be launched from Travis Air Force Base in California and cover a maximum range of 2,640 miles. A group of U.S. specialists will also board the Russian aircraft to monitor the flight and to ensure that norms of the treaty are not violated. According to the U.S. Department of State, the Treaty on Open Skies allows 34 participating countries to carry out observation flights over each other's territories to gather information through aerial imaging on military forces and activities that are of concern to them.

“Within the framework of the international Treaty on Open Skies a group of Russian inspectors plans to conduct an observation flight on a Russian Tupolev Tu-154M-LK-1 observation aircraft over the territory of the United States,” Ryzhkov told Ria Novosti.

The announcement comes after a U.S. military plane reportedly conducted surveillance flights over Russia last month to capture images of the region’s military equipment. The mission was conducted amid increasing isolation faced by Russia following sanctions imposed against it by the U.S. and European Union over the Ukraine crisis.

“Most of the world has no idea this treaty even exists,” U.S. Navy Commander Chris “Half” Nelson, who was overseeing the mission over Russia at the time, was quoted by Military.com as saying. “Whenever I mention that Russians fly aircraft over the U.S. taking pictures, it blows people's minds.”

Signed in March 1992 in Helsinki, the Treaty on Open Skies came into force on Jan. 1, 2002. Russia ratified the treaty on May

[EVT1]

Fox news alert- Obama aiding Russian intelligence gathering by dropping US defenses and permitting Russian aircraft to photograph military targets

[billisonboard]

RIP  Gary Powers



if you can

[Tennesseer]

I am not comfortable with this.  But then no one asked for my opinion before the U.S. signed the treaty in March, 1992.

[Artemis Windsong]

The flight over the U.S. is going to give them more info than their spy satellites?  Maybe verify coordinates.

Our space program relies on Russia.

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Dec 8, 2014 15:08:32 GMT -5 EVT1 said:

Fox news alert- Obama aiding Russian intelligence gathering by dropping US defenses and permitting Russian aircraft to photograph military targets

Obama? Really?

Considering there's a posted timeline and that the Treaty was ratified before Obama was even a "known entity"... I don't know how even Faux News could make that stretch...

[EVT1]

Give them a little time- I am sure they will have something they can hang on Obama by the end of the day.

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Dec 8, 2014 21:07:44 GMT -5 EVT1 said:

Give them a little time- I am sure they will have something they can hang on Obama by the end of the day.

Benghazi!!

[ken a.k.a OMK]

Another case of Fox noise not researching a story.

The treaty was eventually signed as an initiative of US president (and former Director of Central Intelligence) George H. W. Bush in 1989. Negotiated by the then-members of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, the agreement was signed in Helsinki, Finland, on March 24, 1992.

[OldCoyote]

Do you really think they will find anything that they don't already know from satellite intel?

[Politically_Incorrect12]

Dec 8, 2014 19:15:19 GMT -5 @richardintn said:

Dec 8, 2014 15:08:32 GMT -5 EVT1 said:

Fox news alert- Obama aiding Russian intelligence gathering by dropping US defenses and permitting Russian aircraft to photograph military targets

Obama? Really?

Considering there's a posted timeline and that the Treaty was ratified before Obama was even a "known entity"... I don't know how even Faux News could make that stretch...

Just a knee jerk reaction by those on the left...blame Bush and Fox.

[Politically_Incorrect12]

Dec 8, 2014 22:20:48 GMT -5 ken a.k.a OMK said:

Another case of Fox noise not researching a story.

The treaty was eventually signed as an initiative of US president (and former Director of Central Intelligence) George H. W. Bush in 1989. Negotiated by the then-members of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, the agreement was signed in Helsinki, Finland, on March 24, 1992.

I'm pretty sure the stories I read on the subject mentioned in being signed in 1992, and something along the lines of being negotiated...but go ahead with the typical left leaning answer of pretending that everything Fox says has no merit.