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The former Soviet republic of Georgia said on Tuesday that two Russian fighter jets had overflown its territory and dropped a 700 kilo bomb but this had not exploded.

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STONERS1 year, 1 month ago

"Two Russian fighter jets flew from Russia to the Georgian territory yesterday evening and dropped a 700 kilo bomb on the village of Tsitelubani."
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  STONERS1 year, 1 month ago
  
  "Fortunately it didn't explode. If it had exploded it would have been a disaster," he added. He said nobody was hurt.
  
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  browntiger1 year ago
  
  Bologna....
  Rainbow X-58 missile, 140 kilo RDX not 700. Also don't see why would someone just drop it and clueless why wouldn't this go off... I think they listed it's explosive load at 78 kilo.
  Before you claim "disaster" look at the area:
  http://www.newsru.com/world/07aug2007/gruz.html
  Why anyone in the right mind bomb empty field! Doesn't make any sense
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    KSUmarksman1 year ago
    
    crap happens in the military.
    Some Pfc "red shirt" (US carrier term for armorers) probably did not secure it properly.
    Anyone here see the footage where a US F/A-18 Hornet "traps" (lands) on a carrier and an AIM-9 Sidewinder falls off sliding into the ocean?
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      supabro151 year ago
      
      thats what i have been saying. if the missle was meant to explode, it would have. as for the russian jets in georgian airspace, there should be another explanation.
      maybe like they said, georgia is just trying to stir tensions in the area. They better be ready for an ass whooping though....i wouldnt play games with the kremlin ^_^
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        earthlingerer1 year ago
        
        You do know that NATO has the door open for Georgia? They're actually so far into getting into NATO that there is no turning back.
        Russia is playing games right now before their elections. They are dealing with Romania, an EU state, about Transdniestra, a Russian-held enclave in a foreign country, much like the Ossetian problem in Georgia, where a portion of the country is occupied by ethnic Russians.
        It seems like wherever there are ethnic Russians, there is a problem with the local, non-russian government. Look at Estonia and Latvia, where a fifth column lives and breathes.
        But these ethnic Russians don't like being treated as "occupiers" of whatever country they live in, but they were too smart to return to that mentally-retarded, syphilitic, hunchbacked freak called "mother Russia."
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        KSUmarksman1 year ago
        
        save for the US NATO is a joke.
        Without us the whole outfit would get overrun by one Russian armored corps.
        hell western Europe is about to get overrun with the Muslims the idiots let in as "refugees"!
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        KSUmarksman1 year ago
        
        and as far as Estonia and Lativa are concerned:
        did you know that they have yearly events to honor their local pukes who went to serve as SS war criminals in WWII?
        These "gentlemen" murdered "untermenschen" (mainly Jews, but also communists, gypsies, etc.) in the region for Schicklegruber (Hitler).
        I don't know where you're from, maybe they like the SS there. But in my corner of the US the SOP for dealing with SS was "find then, fix them, blast them, burn them" (locate, suppress, destroy fortification, eliminate survivors with flamethrowers)
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        TataH1 year ago
        
        Many of these ethnic Russians were born there and call those places home. Why should they leave their home? And why should they be treated as second class citizens? Just like there are over 150 minorities living in Russia, and nobody makes them leave. And in that mean old Russia, they actually do have equal rights, or sometimes more rights than Russians.
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david_nwpa1 year, 1 month ago

Under other circumstances, the Georgian government could have considered the bomb dropping and fly over as an act of war on behalf of the Russians. Fortunately, that has not been announced, yet.
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  STONERS1 year, 1 month ago
  
  "I assess this fact as an act of aggression carried out by planes flown from the territory of another state," he added.
  
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  earthlingerer1 year ago
  
  What will they do? Russians already occupy a portion of their country. With military. That's why they're about to join NATO.
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BronxBomber1 year, 1 month ago

Well "Oopski" comrade! I mean, I'm just glad it didn't explode and they had to deal with heavy casualties. Geez! There has to be an investigation oh how a near fatal mistake like that can happen, and make sure it don't happen again!
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natashas1 year, 1 month ago

You are so right BronxBomber. I am glad no one was hurt.
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  STONERS1 year, 1 month ago
  
  I agree, I'm glad it didnt go off but like they said this is a """ACT OF AGGRESSION""" They should of taken them down...
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    supabro151 year ago
    
    ...there would now be thousands of more casualties if they had shot the two planes down. thankfully the bomb didnt explode...and since it didnt explode, im sure theres a good reason for it.
    bombs nowadays dont just not explode...they are armed before takeoff, and by gosh, they WILL explode on impact. if the russians wanted to bomb georgia, they would bomb georgia. im sure there is a perfectly good explanation to it.
    i also hope it turns out fine.
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      STONERS1 year ago
      
      What was the point of it then? Im sure if they wanted too then they could also but this was A "ACT OF AGGRESSION" Nothing more and nothing less. These types of acts SHOULDNT be tolerated period... This is why we are in the mess we are in now....
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        supabro151 year ago
        
        "this was A "ACT OF AGGRESSION" Nothing more and nothing less"
        Actually, we are in this mess now because somebody jumped the gun too soon. assuming that it was an act of agression would be ignoring other factors as well. georgia is probably just stirring up tension with russia.
        putins gunna bring the pain though, so they better watch out. if they're stirring up ******, i bet its' gunna hit the fan.
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        earthlingerer1 year ago
        
        How would Georgia stir up troubles with Russia?
        Maybe by trying to join NATO?
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PsychoHosebeast1 year ago

"Russia's air force said it had made no sorties over the area and said Tbilisi had produced no proof of its involvement."
Which is kind of interesting--aren't there almost always a million photographs accompanying something like this? No one had a camera? We'll see how it plays out.
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joeblowe1 year ago

This is good for a chuckle. Either 1) The Ruskies aircraft are getting so decrepit that bombs just fall off sometimes, or 2) they deliberately dropped the bomb and IT was so decrepit that it failed to explode. No wonder they don't want to admit anything - it's an embarrassment either way.
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  TataH1 year ago
  
  I highly doubt Russia would throw bombs at Georgia that don't explode. It makes just as much sense as Putin killing Litvinenko with polonium.
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  djrevelky1 year ago
  
  More than likely the Russian planes are in such poor shape bombs are falling off.
  And why were Russian planes in Georgian airspace? Did they have permission for a fly over?
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    joeblowe1 year ago
    
    Far as they are concerned, Georgia is STILL part of the good ol' USSR.
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      TataH1 year ago
      
      Nope, it's American liability now.
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    cptnkrk1 year ago
    
    perhaps their gps is inop?
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schillinfl11 year ago

They were dropping it on Michael Vick's house in Georgia.
I know I know....that was rough. I'm dogging him out.
Sorry.
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seattlewiz1 year ago

Wow this is sure to shake things up!
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alwaysdrive1 year ago

For better understanding that information one should know very well the Georgian's mentality. It's a simple trick by the worst CIA agent, Mr. Saakashvili, the President of Georgia. Please only don't think that Georgia is one of the US States, inasmuch Georgians (former Soviet Republic) truly were sure that the famous Ray Charles' song "Georgia" devoted to Soviet Georgia. To make sure to Americans that they go to bed and wake up in the morning with the sole idea, that God bless America and in confirmation of it they called a street after Bush. What a love towards Bush and Americans. And "that awful Russians dropped bombs on Georgia" on the 6th of August, exactly on the same day but many years ago as Americans dropped A-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What a terrible and accidental coincidence! I am ashamed for the author of this stupid provocation. Batone Saakashvily shame on you.
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  earthlingerer1 year ago
  
  I suppose the fact that Russia pays for more than half of the budget of the breakaway South Ossetian regime has nothing to do with the problem.
  In South Osettia, there are billboards proclaiming Putin as their president and hero.
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    TataH1 year ago
    
    Dude, you seem to know so much... Surely you know how Georgia got occupied by Russia in the first place?! And now these ... people scream occupation. Should have let Turks handle them, the world would have been a better place. Russia can crush Georgia economically, just get all those hairy beasts out of Russian markets, back in the mountain where thy belong.
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glaswolf1 year ago

It seems we had a few planes violate airspace constraints and our airforce jockeys balked at shooting them down. You don't suppose its endemic from decades of relative inaction that everyone is hesitant to act less they set off the big one? Folks out beyond the great ponds are getting touchy, coincidently for incidents. I suppose a Georgian brother might get spooked by this in realms of realpolitik and given our current situations of ambiguity, I'd yield our Russian allies a free pass ... they're stronger, although perhaps not as sly. Besides our Russian compadres are being aggressively threatened from her south and increasingly challenged by the a new Europe discovering her historical push over the precipice of unity ... fully assimilated aspirations of conquests, armed and dangerous. Moral caverns are breaching between us and Europe, while Russia's always been tolerant of our dogging assertion on the battlefields of our mutual destinies. Besides, the Red Chinese trust them. Well..?
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patnmeril1 year ago

I think GWB disguised airforce 1 to look like a Russian fighter and dropped the bombs
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HogHead1 year ago

Micheal Vick lives in the US, not in Georgia.
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earthlingerer1 year ago

If Georgia would just take military control of South Ossetia on its own and get the Russians out, then NATO won't have to intervene later.
The worst part is that fools like yourself don't read about or know about the games Russia plays with its former republics. From the occupation of part of Romania, to the South Ossetian problem, to Russian jets crashing in Lithuania (a part of the EU), and the fomenting of ethnic tension in Latvia and Estonia.
It must be nice and quiet... and ignorant... when you live in the US and see only White House-approved news these days.
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  TataH1 year ago
  
  Here is the deal, if a foreign plane violates your airspace, you shoot it down, before it drops the bomb, and then you present the evidence to rouge state and world community. What Georgia did, is really, really pathetic. And in a way funny.
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    TataH1 year ago
    
    Or and as far as getting Russians out... Georgians will fight Osetins. Feeling blood thirsty lately? Actually, Georgians do have reason to be upset. The only thing that is worth anything in the area, is Abhazia. And Georgians lost there too...
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groingo1 year ago

If it comes from Russia, the first thing anyone should do is check it for radiation, saw a lot of pictures of people at the site but not 1 radiation detector.
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