Ria Novosti MOSCOW, July 28 (RIA Novosti) – Russian military inspectors will begin on Sunday a series of monitoring flights over the United States under the international Open Skies Treaty, a Russian nuclear security official said.
According to Sergei Ryzhkov, head of the National Nuclear Risk Reduction Center, Russian experts will carry out two consecutive monitoring missions in a Tupolev Tu-154M/LK-1 aircraft from July 28 through August 12.
“The missions will be carried out from the Travis Air Force Base [in California] and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base [in Ohio],” Ryzhkov said.
“These will be Russia’s 23rd and 24th monitoring flights in 2013 over the territories of the Open Skies Treaty member states,” he added.
Russian inspectors, accompanied by US specialists, will operate surveillance equipment on board of the aircraft as set out in the international Open Skies Treaty.
Under the treaty, each aircraft flying under the Open Skies program is fitted with a sensor suite including optical panoramic and framing cameras, video cameras with real-time display, thermal infrared imaging sensors and imaging radar.
The Open Skies Treaty, which entered into force on January 1, 2002, establishes a regime of unarmed aerial observation flights over the territories of its 34 member states to promote openness and the transparency of military forces and activities.
Russia ratified the treaty in May 2001.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20130728/182457138/Russia-Begins-Inspection-Flights-Over-United-States.html
WTF!?
Is this a quiet U.N. take over then?
So then, it is being done in Russia, by the U.S.?
So much for sovereignty.
Quiet instigation of the New World Odor, anyone?
Is this what the downing of the Bolivian Pres. plane was all about?
What’s the matter with this picture?
Everything!
-squee
This one really pissed me off. It’s the first I’ve heard of it, apparently they’ve kept it fairly quiet.
This is something I rarely do, but I’ve copied my comment from the drone article, and it works just as well here:
Welcome to the UNfriendly skies.
Welcome to the New World Order.
No reservations necessary.
Its a kind of a moot point really as the US and Russia have only to flick a switch and task a satellite or two to capture whatever intel they are wanting so I wonder what the real reason is Russia is doing this.
The one thing we can know for sure is that there IS more to this story. Just like there is more to the story of Russian troops training an ameriKan soil a while back. This country has been totally undermined by traitors and we are waiting for the collapse and domination over it if the citizens don’t open their eye’ very soon. The MSM and the television set is not your friend and are only there to spread propaganda and lies and to keep you in a constant state of denial while you are being lead to slaughter! Simple math show us all that all that is really happening is that daily we are getting farther and farther in debt that will never be paid off,and we create more and more enemies. Does that sound like a path to prosperity to anyone? Prepare as best you can for whats really coming if you still have the ability to think left in your mind,if not that is your choice too!
There is something very strange about this in light of recent developments, inside sorces say that there are already hundreds of russian armored vehicles and tanks being shipped by rail all over to major military bases. This is a forward recon flight for the real red dawn…..coming soon to a town near you.
Are you ready?
Quiet NWO/UN takeover, right here and in your face! So drones aren’t enough anymore? Now we need other countries flying over us? THIS F**KING PISSES ME OFF!!!!!!!!
How much more will people take and WHY THE F**K ARE THE SOLDIERS IN THE US MILITARY ALLOWING IT TO HAPPEN!!!!!??? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH OUR SOLDIERS? HAVE THEY NO BALLS!!!??? ARREST THE TREASONOUS TRAITORS OR BLOW THEM ALL TO HELL!!! THIS IS AN INVASION, YOU DUMBASSES!!! DO SOMETHING!!! DO YOUR DUTY, DAMMIT!!!!