Russian bombers began to arm NUKE near UK airspace

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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.



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.


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At what speed does the swing-wing kick in?
Why does the sign on the plane read, 'If you can read this you are about to die."
 

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You have never understood any posts yet you claim to be able to pick out those moments when you did. You are quite the confused little boy aren't you?
 

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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.

They'd have to nuke Scotland and turn it into a desolate, empty wasteland to get some of the nuke-carrying subs (although, having said that, who'd notice the difference?) and they'd have trouble finding those one that are at sea because they don't know where they are. And those nuke-carrying RN subs that the Russians have no idea as to their whereabouts would then go and nuke Russia.
 

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They'd have to nuke Scotland and turn it into a desolate, empty wasteland to get some of the nuke-carrying subs (although, having said that, who'd notice the difference?) and they'd have trouble finding those one that are at sea because they don't know where they are. And those nuke-carrying RN subs that the Russians have no idea as to their whereabouts would then go and nuke Russia.

Of course they would. And several days later the remnant inhabitants would be leaving the irradiated British Isles looking for space to reestablish some sort of stone age muticultural community free of anti-semitism.
 

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Of course they would. And several days later the remnant inhabitants would be leaving the irradiated British Isles looking for space to reestablish some sort of stone age muticultural community free of anti-semitism.


We'd move to all that British land in the colonies.
 

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Clout? When Ghandi did absolutely nothing to defeat the empire there was no longer an empire.


Britain, as the most benign empire in history, gave independence to most of its colonies peacefully, with little bloodshed, unlike, for example, the French, who fought hard in the 1950s and 1960s, with much bloodshed, massacres and crimes against humanity, to keep their colonies such as Algeria.

What colonies? Can't think of a single place that would willingly take that many second world refugees.


And how many IS that?
 

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Britain, as the most benign empire in history, gave independence to most of its colonies peacefully, with little bloodshed, unlike, for example, the French, who fought hard in the 1950s and 1960s, with much bloodshed, massacres and crimes against humanity, to keep their colonies such as Algeria.




And how many IS that?
Benign? Are you high?