Russia appears to be steadily deepening its defense ties with China. In its more recent form, six Chinese and Russian heavy bombers just flew a joint patrol mission over the Western Pacific on Tuesday. According to AP, “the Russian military said that a pair of its Tu-95 strategic bombers and four Chinese H-6K bombers flew over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea.”
As AP noted, “Tuesday’s mission was the second such flight since a July 2019 patrol over the same area.”
The question is, are we seeing a China-Russia military alliance developing?
China’s H-6K bombers are locally produced and upgraded versions of Russia’s Tu-16s which were retired from Russian service in the early 1990s. Flight Global explains the H-6 bomber upgrades:
The H-6 has gone through a complex series of iterations and upgrades since entering Chinese service in the 1960s. New variants such as the H-6K and H-6N operated by the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), and the H-6J operated by the People’s Liberation Army Navy Air Force (PLANAF), are vastly more capable aircraft than the old Tu-16. They also mark a major improvement over the previous generation of H-6 platforms…
Flight Global adds:
The Pentagon notes that the PLAAF’s H-6K, with three hardpoints under each wing, is capable of attacking the key US Pacific base in Guam. The PLANAF version of the H-6K, the H-6J, also features three hardpoints under each wing, giving it a payload of six YJ-12 supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles. This allows it to strike ships out to the “Second Island Chain”, which extends from Japan through Guam to the South Pacific.
Press reports were unclear about which variant of the Tu-95 ‘Bear’ bombers joined the Chinese H-6Ks. But Russia’s Tu-95MSM model, a heavily upgraded strategic missile-carrying version of the bomber made its first flight in August of this year.
Business Insider quoted the general director of Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) as saying of the new Tu-95MSM: “This is an aircraft with a new set of weapons, new onboard electronic equipment, new modified engines, new propellers. The combat capabilities of the plane have doubled after this modernisation,”
This upgraded version of the Tu-95, first introduced in 1956, is now expected to serve Russian forces until at least 2040.
The current joint bomber patrol follows on other joint training and deepening ties that show the two great powers may be closer to a military alliance than previously stated. Until recently, Russia and China had hailed their “strategic partnership,” but rejected the possibility of forming a military alliance.
But, in October, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that a future Russia-China military alliance can’t be ruled out. He also noted that Russia has been sharing sensitive military technologies with China.
In addition to China’s stealing of U.S. and Western defense technologies, the Russian tech infusion has been critical to significantly bolstering China’s mushrooming defense capability.
Regarding the current joint bomber patrol, AP added that:
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that the joint mission was intended to “develop and deepen the comprehensive Russia-China partnership, further increase the level of cooperation between the two militaries, expand their ability for joint action and strengthen strategic stability.”
This is really starting to sound like a growing military alliance to me.
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They are bidens overlords! Er, servants
China owns the Bidens.
This is s truly what the demorats wanted. See what happens when you elect mob familys as the Biden’s. Clintons and most of all the Obumers. Won’t be much left in th next year.
Don’t forget, Oboma gave our enemies technology. High, high treason!!
He was such an idiot and corrupt foreign countries loved taking advantage of Odimbdumb.
Heavenly Father, deliver us from our enemies within, and without.
Does anyone else see the similarities between the Biden’s and Capone. Both are running or had run a system of criminal activity (using the office of the VP to gain personal favor is a crime is it not) and tax evasion to which the younger Biden is now under investigation.
Not to mention Biden is a bigot, a perv, he has dementia and China, Russia and Ukraine own him. BOYCOTT watching the inauguration, help Biden get what he deserves…..lowest inaugural ratings in history.
Dementia Joe will NEVER be able to handle a Russian / China invasion because they own him and his corrupt family.
That’s why Trump can’t step down. He needs to remain for a 2nd term if need be by force. Call out the military and arrest all the commies and put them on trial in a military tribunal.
First the bio-weapon and corruption of an election. Now joint military exercises conducted by the two greatest threats to our nation. Hey Joe? Who’s going to eat our lunch? Traitors!
Russia and China are openly “playing their hands” with this display. Why? They can smell the weakness of the coming Harris regime. They know she has no clue about foreign policy, and how easy it will be to use threats against America with her as dictator.
if it’s made in China it will break down before 3 months are up
Are you forgetting the Clintons gave China the missle guidence system to China. ” Gave ” what a joke.
The Democrats are such fools . China needs our Natural Resources. They have eaten everything that walks , crawls or swims in China. China will attack us . It would have been wise not to allieninate Russia . They may have helped us fend China off .
The USA and its allies need to start shooting down these democrat war planes!
Stop the Steal…..biden is in bed with the chinese……they own him via the millions they gave hunter. These bombers ain’t much…..certainly no where near the quality of a B-2 and now the B-21 coming out soon.
I feel sorry for the Russians. They have no idea with whom they’re getting into bed with. Hey, sometimes you need a slap up the side of the head to understand the reality of how things work.
Why not…
…after installing Biden China becomes the World’s on Superpower
I am afraid that when COMMIE JOE gets in, BLM and thugs will riot and Obiden will declare marshal law, turn us over to Chinese rule. America is screwed and no more elections ever. The Chinese owe us more than two trillion dollars and refuse to pay. Don’t let Commie Joe or Killary tell you we they have sold the country to them and they own it. I’m afraid things are about to get bloody. But so be it if that’s what it takes to save this nation from the NWO elite A holes. Once it starts we need to take ALL of them out. Clean out D.C. and a lot of state capitals. I have said for years MOB’s has ruled this country and now it’s all coming out They don’t care if you know any longer because they got you by the balls, they think. This lock downs are the destroy the country and get all on bread lines. The CDC is being sued by seven labs because they can’t provide Covid-19 samples to research labs. The labs said they got 1500 positive sample and none of them had covid-19. They were all FLU samples and NO COVID-19 in them. IT”S ALL BS to break this country. All people dying are dying of strong FLU and underlying other problems. In Colorado there were two people reported died of Covid-19, but they have two bullet holes that actually killed them. It’s SCAM People. Wake Up. Get Ready the crap is rolling down hill. GOD BLESS and PRAY for America. Happy New Year!
Thank God WWII didn’t have politicians like we have today. Most get elected with no money, no brains and a complete set of tools that wouldn’t put together an erector set ferris wheel. They go to the Washington Swamp and immediately get caught up in making themselves lots of inside dealer trading to get their own bank accounts as large as they can then stay for 20 or more years to become pompous rich SOB’s. They steal from our SS making what use to be IOU’s but now nothing is even said about paying anything back. We are being led by a class of criminal now so deeply lodged in the fabric of the swamp we may not survive this election. Desperate are the Democrats to gain power they pulled out all the stops in fraud leaving evidence everywhere of their actions. Hopefully January 6th will be a final nail in their coffin and President Trump will finally be recognized as the winner of the 2020 election.