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Originally Posted by Schroeder
I think there are 3 reasons for that.
First is that Putin wants to show he's still there to both NATO and his own people.
Second they can clock the reaction time of NATO air defenses.
Third the bombers can have electronic reconnaissance equipment to have a look at Britain's coast or just to practice operating it in a "live environment".
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The first is militarily irrelevant, and two and three: well, okay in regions of operational interest - but the
Channel...?
The day when under wartime conditions Russian heavy bombers the size of these planes can reach the channel (without having overrolled continental Europe first and standing in division size in Rotterdam and Calais), will be the day I will vote for saving money and dismantle NATO, for then I would know that NATO could not be trusted to get even the most obvious tasks done.
