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Old 12-16-13, 05:11 PM   #1
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Here's a story you may not know

in the early night time on 29th of Mars, a group of 6 Russian fighter planes conduct a series of bomb-training just outside the Swedish border. The Swedes reacted slowly and when their JAS 39 arrived the Russian plane was heading home

it turned out that they trained attack on the FRA Institution

FRA means Defense Radio Institute. in other words SIGINT.

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Your quite correct, I wasn't aware....but when was the last time Sweden was on a war footing/alert?
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Your quite correct, I wasn't aware....but when was the last time Sweden was on a war footing/alert?
1981

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_S-363
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Old 12-16-13, 05:19 PM   #3
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Crumbs on the table in the overall context of historical warfare me thinks.
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Crumbs on the table in the overall context of historical warfare me thinks.

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Old 12-17-13, 05:45 AM   #5
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Perhaps their surveillance picked up early notice of this judgement: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/16/ju...-court-ruling/
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Found a English article about this Russian exercise

http://www.thelocal.se/20130422/47474

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Karin Enstrom as defense minister is a minor disaster and government way of managing defense capability, for several years, and that the Swedish security policy leaves many questions,
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Old 12-17-13, 11:37 AM   #9
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...the Swedish security policy...
Security policy? What security policy? No offence but you can't be neutral without means to enforce that neutrality. Policy which includes constantly cutting defence capability isn't "security policy".
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