{"id":2488,"date":"2015-05-24T21:47:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T21:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2015-05-24T21:47:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T21:47:38","slug":"us-to-send-nuclear-bombers-to-sweden-for-military-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/us-to-send-nuclear-bombers-to-sweden-for-military-drills\/","title":{"rendered":"US to send nuclear bombers to Sweden for military drills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Pentagon is planning to send nuclear bombers to Sweden for a military exercise next month amid growing tensions with Russia over the Ukraine crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The warplanes, the B-52 Stratofortress, will participate in a naval exercise on June 13, Swedish general Karl Engelbrektson said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are set to fly from the United States nonstop and simulate a drop of anti-ship mines near Ravlunda on the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US forces are planning to simulate the defense of the coast in case of an attack by amphibious forces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Engelbrektson said the goal of the exercise &#8220;is to increase the different operative capabilities, but also to send clear security political signals that we do these things together with others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;How Russia interprets that, they can decide for themselves,&#8221; Engelbrektson added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is while the United States deployed more warplanes to other countries in Europe for military maneuvers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least four US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II arrived at \u00c4mari Air Base in Estonia on April 30.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The aircraft are set to stay in the European country for six months in order to reassure regional allies for Operation Atlantic Resolve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States army began its military drills, called Operation Atlantic Resolve, more than one year ago following the conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Relations between Washington and Moscow have deteriorated over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States accuses Russia of sending troops into eastern Ukraine in support of the pro-Russian forces, an allegation denied by the Kremlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon is planning to send nuclear bombers to Sweden for a military exercise next month amid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1,125],"tags":[227,75,6,24,5,90,20,213,7,22],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-united-states","tag-air-force","tag-conflict","tag-defense","tag-eu","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-russia","tag-sweden","tag-u-s","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/US-B52H-Arms.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-E8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}