Obama Triggering WWIII: Russia Retaliates US B-2 Nuclear Exercises In EU. Sends Nuclear B-2s To Calif Coast. US Intercepts Them

After the Obama administration supported chaos in Ukraine, recently escalating it by flexing its imperialist muscles with nuclear weapon exercises in Europe, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a spokesman for NORAD, told Washington Free Beacon reporter Bill Gertz that a pair of Tu-95 Bear H aircraft maintained by Russia came close to US airspace during “practice bombing” while four of the planes conducted bombing runs near Alaska.

Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a spokesman for NORAD, told Washington Free Beacon reporter Bill Gertz that a pair of Tu-95 Bear H aircraft maintained by Russia came close to US airspace during “practice bombing” while four of the planes were conducting bombing runs near Alaska.

According to Nuclear Threat Initiative nonprofit organization, Russia has 29 Tu-95 MS6 Bear H6s and 30 Tu-95 MS16 Bear H16s, which are equipped to fire both traditional and nuclear payloads at targets from the air.

Davis told the Beacon the incident occurred Monday afternoon and was caught quickly by radar systems that monitored American air defense zones. The radar spotted all four Russian aircraft and two F-22 fighter jets used by the US Air Force were then mobilized to intercept the bombers, he said.

“After tracking the bombers as they flew eastward, two of the four Bears turned around and headed west toward the Russian Far East,” Gertz wrote. “The remaining two nuclear-capable bombers then flew southeast and around 9:30 P.M. entered the US northern air defense zone off the coast of Northern California.

Those two aircraft, he added, made it within 50 miles of the coast before turning around. The pilots appeared to have “acted professionally” and their behavior was on par with activity that’s “not unusual” for long-range aviation training missions typically conducted by Russia during the summer months. Indeed, in recent weeks other Russian-owned Tu-95 bombers skirted UK airspace and have come close to US property in both Guam and California, The Aviationist reported last month.

In March, Russia’s daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta, said the nation’s Strategic Missile Forces began a three-day drill to ensure sufficient readiness to conduct a nuclear offensive.

“We assess this was part of training,” David added of this week’s incident, “And they did not enter territorial airspace.”

David Cenciotti wrote for The Aviationist, the Tu-94 “still represents a significant strategic weapon in Putin’s arsenal.”

Earlier this week, Russian drills intensified. The nation’s military began exercises in the Baltic that the Defense Ministry said was a response to recent NATO forces’ exercises in eastern Europe. 

Allied nations maintain a presence there as tensions along Ukraine’s border with Russia remain high.

The US State Dept. reported last year that Russia might have an arsenal with as many as 1,400 operationally deployed strategic nuclear warheads and 894 deployed and non-deployed launchers.

Source: Russia Today, Global Research