To the Tornado no one that said? ;)

It’s a good thing it doesn’t need to drag all that crap along at any great altitude or it would run out of wing and power.

Nice to find a cool head in this neighborhood. Well written! Kudos!

Well, what’s there and what isn’t depends on what deployments that fleet is on. I don’t know their exact disposition, but they often sail into the Atlantic and beyond to conduct training exercises with other nations, and if the Turks were patient they could catch the bulk of the fleet out of the Black Sea and deny…

You should have stopped at “what!?” instead of jumping to a rediculous conclusion.

The whole point of having a warm-water port is so they can come and go as they need to year-around. The Russians don’t have a Black Sea Fleet to patrol the Black Sea. Duh!

I enjoy discussing geopolitics and history with retards..

Simple, you don’t let their ships back into the Black Sea after they leave - which they do all the time for exercises, and to meddle in Syria and Turkey.

Nope. Read what’s on the page and stop hyper-ventilating.

Perhaps you don’t understand how to read a map. They can tool around inside the Black Sea all they want - at least for now - but if they want to get out or back in they have to go through Turkey. Is this beyond your comprehension?

Now? or before they stole a bunch of it through their wars in Georgia and Ukraine?

4 trillion be be rid if the USSR? A bargain! Excellent decision making!

Kind of a PS: here, but the scud hunting missions were hated by the Strike Eagle pilots. Long, boring and dangerous (SAMs), but those gave way to supporting English SAS commando units who were inserted by the Brits on the ground and operating mostly at night.

Norway could play the same card and lock the Russian out of their ports in the Norwegian Sea.

I don’t know, perhaps we should ask the bomber crews Putin sends down our Pacific Coast, or to constantly challenge NATO country’s borders?

...and yet Putin continues to fly nuclear-capable bombers right up to and in some cases, inside of NATO’s borders. Perhaps you should express your concerns to the Kremlin this holiday season with a “What the fuck are you thinking” Christmas card.

....unless you want to give your enemy a lot to think about, and not much reaction time.

From what I have marked “Boomer Basin”, at 7,100+ ft deep, it is 37 miles to the Russian base at Sevastopol - which takes just over 3 minutes for a MIRV nuke from a US boomer to get to. AKA, how to make a tin-pot dictator with the limbic system of a 2yr old think twice about his options.

You’d think even if being the evil genius bad-boy with crippling authority issues Putin is made out to be, he’d be smart enough to open a map before blundering into the thick of the Syrian civil war. You know, because civil wars respond notoriously well to erratic, petulant behavior.

I would LOVE Tyler to do an in-depth on what forward ground controllers, like our Special Ops guys on the ground now in Syria, do. Explain how that works.

What are the safeguards? What experience do they have? How do pilots feel about them? What more or less would pilots like from them? What systems, like the Sniper…