U.S.: Russian planes spotted near California, Guam

U.S.: Russian planes spotted near California, Guam

on May 6, 2014
Posted In: RUSSIA, Usa



The head of U.S. air forces in the Pacific said on Monday that Russia’s intervention in Ukraine had been accompanied by a significant increase in Russian air activity in the Asia-Pacific region in a show of strength and to gather intelligence.


General Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle said the activity had included Russian flights to the coast of California, and around the U.S. Pacific island of Guam.


Carlisle said the number of long-range Russian patrols around the Japanese islands and Korea had increased “drastically.” He said there had also been “a lot more ship activity as well.”


Speaking at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, Carlisle showed a slide of a U.S. F-15 fighter jet intercepting a Russian “Bear” aircraft over Guam. He used the Cold War NATO name for Russia’s Tupolov Tu-95 strategic bomber.


“Certainly what’s going on in Ukraine and Crimea is a challenge for us and it’s a challenge for us in Asia Pacific as well as Europe,” Carlisle said.

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PACAF Gen. Carlisle Warns China Against Creating Two New Air Defense Zones; Russians Pushing in Pacific Too | Breaking Defense
By Matt On May 6, 2014 · In Asia, China, U.S.

Pacific Air Forces commander Gen. Hawk Carlisle, who has come to serve as a key Pentagon spokesman on Chinese issues, told several hundred insiders that China may be considering creation of two new Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ) and warned the rising power against any such move.

“You also have potential for either a Yellow China Sea ADIZ or a South China Sea ADIZ, which we believe they’ve been thinking about,” Carlisle said during a presentation at the Center for Strategic and International Studies here. He said the US has warned China against this, urging that the PRC consult with neighbors before making any such move. The US has told its allies about these possible moves and made clear we would not welcome them. Among the reasons for the US unease with any such move: the policies governing the current East China Sea ADIZ, which has been roundly condemned by most of the word, ”do not follow international law or international rules” Carlisle said.

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Overall trends show that China continues to push outward in an aggressive manner. There seems to be little regard on how this affects China’s neighbors. Clearly, China’s peaceful rise is changing as it continues to tighten tension in the region in an incremental manner.

At what point does the next incremental move by China force the US to respond? And how should the US respond?

In my opinion, the US should make a demand on its Asian allies – cut trade with China. Of course, the US should too but make the Asian allies go first. If they won’t even cut trade with China, then why should the US do anything? In reality, they want life to go on as it has and make the US do all the work. We should all be working together to push China into a revolution. Please note that I think this kind of plan has zero chance of being implemented. Nobody wants to cut trade with China.

Given that life in Asia is going to continue as it has, and so too with the US, then I would expect that the China problem is just going to get worse. There is already worry about an incident escalating out of control into a great-power war, and I expect this worry to increase. We will continue like this until there really is an incident. There WILL come a point where China goes too far.

I’ve noticed that China doesn’t seem all that worried it could really start a great-power war. It’s almost as if a great-power war is the cost of doing business. Or there is something else going on. China’s leaders can’t stop. For to stop its aggressive outward push will probably plunge the country into a revolution, given that it is not all that far away from one right now. Apparently, a great-power war is a better option for the leaders than risking a revolution. Remember, the only ones who count are the leaders.

Russian Strategic Bombers On West Coast: Did They Take Down Los Angeles Air Traffic Control Systems?

Mac Slavo
SHTF Plan
May 7, 2014


With the situation in the Ukraine escalating and the US continuing to call for sanctions against Russia’s financial and political elite, Vladimir Putin is now not only mobilizing tens of thousands of troops on his Western front, but sending intercontinental strategic bombers across the Pacific Ocean. According to the US military, it’s the first time since the cold war that Russia’s incursions have come this close to America.





Image: Russian Bomber (Wiki Commons).


What’s even more alarming is that Russia is making it clear that any attack on the Motherland would likely lead to widespread bombardment of western interests. 


Nuclear capable Russian bombers have been spotted all over the world as of late including in Guam, Japan, South Korea and Europe.

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Gen. Herbert Carlisle, Commander of United States Air Forces in the Pacific, acknowledged a significant increase in the activities by Russian long-range strategic aircraft flying along the California coast.

There was no comment about whether the aircraft were nuclear capable, but it has not been since the Cold War ended in the early 1990s that Russian patrols have skirted the West Coast and California.

Other than fleets of Russian bombers making passes in close proximity to U.S. interests, the military hasn’t reported anything else out of the ordinary.


But last week something weird happened in Los Angeles and it likely involved a high altitude fly over.


Air traffic controllers at Los Angeles LAX airport reported that their computer systems were overwhelmed and crashed, leading to hundreds of flight delays and cancellations across the country. According to an NBC News investigation the outage was caused by the flyover of a U-2 spy plane. Apparently the 1950′s class spy plane entered LAX airspace at about 60,000 feet and its jamming systems crashed not only the primary air traffic control systems used to monitor and direct commercial airlines, but the back up systems as well.

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A U-2 spy plane is being blamed for a software glitch at a Californian air traffic control center which led to delays earlier this week.
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According to NBC News, the U-2 was flying at 60,000 feet, but air traffic control computers were attempting to keep it from colliding with planes that were actually miles beneath it.

The computers at the L.A. Center are programmed to keep commercial airliners and other aircraft from colliding with each other.

The spy plane’s altitude and route apparently overloaded a computer system called ERAM, which generates display data for air-traffic controllers. Back-up computer systems also failed

But within days of the original report, disseminated across broadcast networks all over America, the Air Force officially denied that it was a U-2 spy plane, claiming they found the glitch but provided no reason for what caused it:

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It’s still not clear why the U-2 flew into the L.A. Center’s airspace, or why it didn’t give advance warning of the flight, as per usual. According to NBC News, the nearby Edwards Air Force Base and NASA’s Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center (located at Edwards) “have been known to host U-2s.”

But an Edwards rep said no such planes are assigned to Edwards, and a NASA rep said that none of their U-2 planes were flying on Wednesday.

The U.S. Air Force, on the other hand, confirmed that it had sent out a U-2 plane that day — but denied to that the spy plane caused the airport confusion. The Air Force Times has more:

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Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren confirmed that there was a U-2 operating in the area. The Air Force “filed all the proper flight plan paperwork … in accordance with all FAA regulations” and was conducting a routine training operation, Warren said. The FAA has issued a statement saying technicians have “resolved the specific issue that triggered the problem,” but the agency did not say what the problem was. FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown declined to comment about whether the U-2 was connected to the computer problems at the control center.

With the revelation this week that Russia has deployed strategic bomber fleets for fly-by’s along our West Coast to gather intelligence and test their capabilities, is it possible that someone flipped a switch to see what would happen?


The Air Force likely knows what caused the outage but refuses to share details, which suggests that either the United States was engaged in a military exercise and they want to keep it under wraps, or, it was the Russians and going public could further inflame the already heated geo-political climate.


Both the United States and Russia have advanced stealth and jamming systems, either of which may have been responsible for the LAX outage. But one particular technology stands out, especially considering that Airforce technicians had to step in to resolve the issue.


The United States, Russia and China have been testing non-nuclear capable electro-magnetic pulse technology that can be deployed either via a missile or a attached to an airplane while it travels in proximity to a particular target. Unlike the nuclear-trigger Super EMP Weapons capable of taking down the electrical infrastructure of an entire country if detonated about 200 miles above the earth’s surface, non-nuclear EMP technology is a line-of-sight weapon that can be directed at a specific city, building or computer system.


In the United States a similar weapon is called CHAMP (High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project ) and is manufactured by Boeing.

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We hit every target we wanted to. We prosecuted everyone. Today we made science fiction into science fact.
We took out everything.

Granted, no missile was detected over the United States within the time frame that LAX computers were taken out of service, it’s important to keep in mind that CHAMP, while advanced, is known to everyone and the technology is already at least half a decade old.


It’s certainly possible, and probably likely, that Russia has similar technologies and ones that do not necessarily require a missile to deliver its “payload.”


With bombers flying right along our coast, did Russia take the opportunity to utilize a new advanced technology to target specific components of the air traffic control system, sending it into a frenzy?

This article was posted: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 5:52 am


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