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Feb 28 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
B-52H bomber (60-0026, #NOBLE21) has departed Moron in Spain and heading north. Possibly one of a pair. Four B-52s from Minot AFB arrived at Moron last Friday for extended Bomber Task Force operations in Europe. 60-0026 is one of the nuclear-capable B-52s. #B52
The B-52H has reached the Norwegian Sea area west of Trondheim.
After a day of operations off western Norway and the Lofoten area, the B-52H (has anyone seen a second bomber?) is returning to forward operating base at Moron in Spain.

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Great to attend large demonstration in Washington DC for Ukraine and against Putin’s brutal aggression. One poster said it all.

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Among the speakers, Samantha Powers, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. Image
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DOD has published its 2022 report on Chinese military developments. The report covers developments up until end-2021, nearly a year ago. media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/29/20…

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1/n - In his latest speech, Putin rattles the nuclear sword again. This time by threatening nuclear use if the “territorial integrity” of occupied territories in Ukraine he plans to declare part of Russia after sham referendum is “threatened.” kremlin.ru/events/preside… Image
2/n - Unlike the generic nuclear threat issued at the start of his attack on Ukraine in February, this threat is explicitly linked to the military situation in Ukraine. And “when the territorial integrity of our country is threatened” goes beyond Russian declaratory policy. Image
3/n - To justify that, Putin mentions “statements of some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO states about the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction against Russia - nuclear weapons.”

Haven’t seen that, except in RESPONSE to Russian use. Image
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1/n Excellent article by @KofmanMichael and @AnyaFink on escalation management & nuclear employment in Russia’s military strategy. warontherocks.com/2022/09/escala…

It contains serious challenges to popular claims about Russian “escalate-to-deescalate” strategy.

Required reading!
2/n Some gems:

“There is no gimmicky ‘escalate to win’ strategy, in which military strategists believe they can start and quickly end a conflict on their terms thanks to the wonders of nuclear weapons.”
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Contrary to what US advocates of new low-yield nukes claim, Russian nuclear strategy does not take “advantage of lower-yield nuclear weapons that the United States does not have. This appears nowhere in Russian military writings or deliberations.”
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At Joint Base Andrews for airshow. F-35s and F-22 5th gen fighters getting ready.
Both the B-52 and B-1 bombers are here. Missed the B-2 flyby yesterday. But I did my own New START inspection of the B-52 (61-0021) from Barksdale AFB. Yep, this is a denuclearized version. See, no external identifier. ✅ ImageImage
Pretty wild that inside the B-52 bomb bay you can still see the tags for the nuclear AGM-69A SRAM. It was retired two decades ago. ImageImageImage
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Two B-52s are airborne. One (61-0003) heading east into Germany. The second (61-0039) heading east over the Mediterranean Sea south of Turkey. ImageImage
After reaching a point over Slovakia about 140 km from Ukraine border, the B-52 headed southeast over Hungary, turning east into Romania. Image
I haven’t seen this before: As one B-52 (61-0003) returns after operations over southeast Romania, another (60-0044) is on its way to take its place. ImageImageImage
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