Russia Closing In On Nuclear War (Revelation 15)

How close we came to Armageddon: Russian bombers began to arm NUKE near UK airspace

PILOTS in one of the two Russian supersonic bombers intercepted near UK skies last week had started the countdown to arm a nuclear bomb, sources revealed last night.

By MARCO GIANNANGELI, EXCLUSIVE

06:01, Mon, Sep 21, 2015 | UPDATED: 07:45, Mon, Sep 21, 2015

The discovery was made after RAF specialists analyzed a four-second signal transmitted from one of the Tupolev Tu-160 bombers, known by Nato as “Blackjacks”, in the days following Thursday’s incursion.

Analysts at RAF Boulmer, Britain’s Control and Reporting Centre, confirmed that the Russian bombers had begun the sequence to arm nuclear weapons while carrying out the incursion.
It is not the first time they have done this and comparison with a similar signal transmitted by a TU-95 “Bear” bomber revealed Russian air crew had begun the countdown during an incursion last year, as well.

The Sunday Express revealed that the bomber involved in the February 2014 incident had been carrying a submarine-busting nuclear depth charge designed to attack Britain’s Trident-carrying Vanguard submarines.

“All I can say is that we now know it related to the first stage of arming a nuclear device,” said a senior RAF source last night.

“There are several additional arming procedures which, thankfully, were not carried out.”
Last week’s air incursion, which was intercepted by Two RAF Typhoon jets, was the seventh this year by Russian forces.

RAF Boulmer, in Longhoughton. Northmberland, is the headquarters of the Air Surveillance and Control System force and the nerve centre of UK air security operations. Once a target is tracked the information is fed into the NATO network operated by the Combined Air Operations Centre at Uedem, Germany and the RAF’s Air Defence Operations Centre at Air Command, High Wycombe.
However it was only when a female analyst decoded last week’s transmission that it was realised Russia had carried out a similar exercise last year.

Aviation expert Justin Bronk, of the Royal United Services Institute think tank, said the revelation confirmed a “worrying” development in Russian strategy.

“Putin does not allow his air force to fly with cruise missiles because he is so worried about defections, but dual purpose bombs such as nuclear depth charges are a different matter. And these are designed to be a direct threat to or nuclear deterrent.

“It is entirely probable that Russian crews have been practicing arming drills. The whole process can take several minutes, and it is important to be able to carry out quickly.”
He added that the lack of Nimrod maritime surveillance patrol aircraft made the situation more worrying.

Britain’s Nimrod fleet, which was scrapped as part of the SDR in 2010, used to perform so-called “delousing” exercises, whereby it would give advanced warning of Russian aircraft when Trident-carrying Vanguard submarines set off on patrol.

Putin does not allow his air force to fly with cruise missiles because he is so worried about defections, but dual purpose bombs such as nuclear depth charges are a different matter
Aviation expert Justin Bronk “There is no doubt that, by going through even the initial stages of the nuclear arming sequence, Russia is sending Britain clear signals. This is classic Cold War operation, and it is not a game.”

Nato aircraft were “scrambled” more than 500 times over Europe in 2014, a fourfold increase over the previous year. Almost 90 per cent of those flights involved Russian incursions. The number of Russian incursions had already reached 300 by the end of last month, suggesting this year will see numbers akin to the height of the Cold War.

Most Russian aircraft fly without transponders so as not to give away their positions, making them a safety hazard to other air traffic.

“Scrambles are launched in response to Russian activity,’ said Nato spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Jay Janzen, recently.

“The sole aim is to preserve the integrity of Nato European airspace and to safeguard Nato nations from air attacks.”

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Two Russian Nuclear Bombers Fly Into Alaskan Airspace

Two nuclear-capable Russian bombers entered U.S. airspace for the first time this year in the Alaska air defense zone. Despite the intrusion, no U.S. jets were sent to intercept or shadow the incoming bombers.

The Washington Post reports that the two Russian bombers flew into the U.S. airspace last week. However, they noted that no U.S. jets were sent to shadow the planes like in previous encounters. Capt. Jeff Davis, a spokesman for the U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), is remaining mum on the incident but notes that no planes were dispatched last week to the area in question.

As Fox News points out, the incident marks the first Russian incursion on U.S. airspace this year. However, last year Russian bombers were intercepted at least six times with long-range aircraft detected by NORAD on at least 10 other occasions. It is noted that this is probably the first of many Russian bombers that will be seen in U.S. airspace this year. Russia has been frequenting the area as part of a new training and influence operation.

Senior military officials have noted the increased presence of Russian aircraft in U.S. airspace in addition to the incursions on Canadian and EU airspace. Northern Command commander Adm. William Gortney has spoken on the Russian issue and says that the country is developing a very capable military program, noting that both flight missions and numbers of locations for the flights “have gone up” and that the military is getting stronger in the region.

Aside from interactions with the U.S., Russia is also making threatening gestures in the European Union with a number of fighter jets being intercepted. However, Russia isn’t only making a stance in the air, Sweden recently detected a Russian submarine in Swedish waters that caused a stir across the country.

With campaigns aimed at flexing military muscle, the U.S. and other countries in the cross-hairs with Russia can expect to see more Russian military training exercises near their coasts or airspace.

This is the first time that the U.S. has not sent a jet to intercept the Russian bombers. The latest bomber mission identified near Alaska last year was described as provocative and dangerous by the Pentagon. Therefore, a US RC-135 intercepted the bomber and shadowed it back to Russian airspace.

What do you think the U.S. should do about the breech of airspace by the nuclear-capable Russian bombers? Should NORAD have dispatched U.S. jets to shadow or intercept the bombers, or did they do the right thing by ignoring the symbolic threat?