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    Kremlin Sounds Alarm Over 'Doomsday Plane' Robbery

    The Kremlin on Wednesday sounded the alarm over the theft of sensitive equipment from a "doomsday plane" designed to shield top command from the effects of a nuclear explosion.


    The Interior Ministry said police in the southern city of Taganrog had been alerted that 1 million rubles ($13,600) worth of equipment had been stolen from an Ilyushin Il-80 plane at an airfield.

    President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the breach as an "emergency situation" and vowed that "measures will be taken to prevent this from happening in the future."


    The Interior Ministry did not specify what was stolen but said that investigators had been dispatched to the scene.


    The port city of Taganrog, more than 1,100 kilometers south of Moscow, is home to Beriev Aircraft Company, a struggling state-controlled enterprise.


    Both the Interior Ministry and Beriev declined to comment when reached by AFP.


    But the Kremlin-friendly REN-TV television channel reported earlier this week that radio equipment was taken from an Il-80 plane that was undergoing maintenance at Taganrog.


    Thieves opened the aircraft's cargo hatch and shoe and fingerprints were found inside the plane, the channel said adding that Beriev reported the theft to police last week.


    The channel said that 12 people had been questioned as part of the probe that was made public on Wednesday.


    Citing a source, it said officials with access to the airfield could be behind the high-profile theft.


    The robbed plane is one of four highly-classified flying command centers built to evacuate the president and other top officials in case of a nuclear explosion.


    Almost windowless, the first such Russian plane is believed to have flown in 1985.


    Kremlin Sounds Alarm Over 'Doomsday Plane' Robbery - The Moscow Times

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    Who else immediately thinks of Dr. Strangelove?

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    Yup the late Slim Pickens clear as a bell.


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    There was no need to release this story in the media but they did anyway. Because muh transparency. As if they would ever get credit for transparency anyway. Russia should stop trying to be like the west

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    There was no need to release this story in the media but they did anyway. Because muh transparency. As if they would ever get credit for transparency anyway. Russia should stop trying to be like the west
    I think they have done a pretty good job of not being like the west. In fact they are known for encouraging quite the opposite, allegedly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    1 million rubles ($13,600) worth of equipment had been stolen from an Ilyushin Il-80 plane at an airfield.
    Love the exchange rate . . . if 1 million rubles worth of equipment had been stolen in the USAir Force it would have been a hammer


    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Who else immediately thinks of Dr. Strangelove?


    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    There was no need to release this story in the media but they did anyway. Because muh transparency. As if they would ever get credit for transparency anyway.
    Stop your continual whining about the bad west. You're as bad or worse than OhNooo and Kloondyke who actually come from Mainland China and Russia and not some spoiled middle class suburban nightmare


    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Russia should stop trying to be like the west
    Every post . . . you illustrate that you know sweet fuck all

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    There was no need to release this story in the media but they did anyway. Because muh transparency. As if they would ever get credit for transparency anyway. Russia should stop trying to be like the west
    Go away, Skidmark my 5 year old exhibits more sophisticated geopolitical anaylsis than your tripe.

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    On unrelated news, the US announced the completion of sensitive equipment enabling the development of a doomsday plane !!!

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    . . . and the development cost was $13.600

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRealKW View Post
    Go away, Skidmark my 5 year old exhibits more sophisticated geopolitical anaylsis than your tripe.
    I think a newly formed protozoan exhibits more sophisticated geopolitical anaylsis than his tripe.

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