Bomber Task Force Europe: B-52s join long-range strategic deployment
B-52 Stratofortress aircraft from Minot Air Force Base’s 5th Bomb Wing join the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron’s B-1B Lancers to support the Bomber Task Force Europe mission series, Nov. 10, during a targeting mission throughout the North Sea region.
Air Force Global Strike Command’s strategic bomber platforms were joined by Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 aircraft, RAF Lakenheath’s F-15D Eagles and F-15E Strike Eagles, and RAF Mildenhall’s KC-135 Stratotankers, combining a force capable of executing super and sub-sonic strike capabilities with a range of conventional and precision guided munitions.
“Our ability to strike air, land, and sea targets with a coalition fighting force goes unmatched,” said Gen. Jeff Harrigian, U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa commander. [Also commander of NATO’s Allied Air Command]….
Bomber Task Force rotations have brought all three of U.S. Strategic Command’s strategic bomber assets [B-1s, B-2s, B-52s] to the European and African theater since the mission series began in 2018.The series demonstrates the U.S. Air Force’s unique ability to rapidly deploy to unfamiliar airfields and integrate with NATO allies and coalition partners.
Anti-bellum 
Living in Alaska I can’t help wondering if Washington/Pentagon realize the US has a common border with Russia. ( Bering Strait, Big Diomede/Little Diomede).
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Don’t remind them or tomorrow’s NYT, WP, etc. will run banner headlines on Russia threatening to annex its former territory as it did Crimea and so on. “One hundred thousand Russian seals and walruses poised to assault Anchorage in the ultimate hybrid warfare attack.”
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Prudoe Bay, Valdez oil terminal, Port of Anchorage (largest container ship port in state, Ted Stevens Intl. Airport (major intl. cargo/passenger hub) could easily be destroyed with conventional weapons. Blinken seems so focused on Eastern Russia that he and others are oblivious that the back door to US is wide open.
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