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To: phantomworker

It's 2006 and B-52s are performing CAS. Who wudda thunk it?


19 posted on 03/17/2006 3:31:47 PM PST by Knuckledragger
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To: Knuckledragger

Well, actually ideally suited for it too, with JDAM precision munitions. Lots more efficient than having a number of fighters rotate around.

Guys up in that B-52 are probably buzzing around bored out of their mind, drinking coffee, and punch in a few numbers when the guys below request a drop.


21 posted on 03/17/2006 3:39:50 PM PST by farlander (Strategery - sure beats liberalism!)
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To: Knuckledragger
Didn't know that! This is the last I heard the B-52's:


23 posted on 03/17/2006 3:44:06 PM PST by phantomworker (The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. - Thomas Koenig)
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To: Knuckledragger

I guess I need to modify my idea of what close air support is. I thought it was when they zoom in at treetop level and strafe and bomb the bad guys threatening the good guys. I can't see B-52's pulling that off.


37 posted on 03/17/2006 5:25:16 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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