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This French jet is flying around with an untested nuke
Jalopnik ^ | Jun 2, 2011 | Matt Hardigree

Posted on 06/02/2011 1:43:12 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki

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Rafale nuke layout

1 posted on 06/02/2011 1:43:19 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Maybe its looking for a place to test it.


2 posted on 06/02/2011 1:48:37 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: sukhoi-30mki

300 KT is a heck of a warning shot.


3 posted on 06/02/2011 1:49:56 PM PDT by mmercier
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Neat graphic, thank you!


4 posted on 06/02/2011 1:52:24 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down!)
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To: mmercier
300 KT is a heck of a warning shot.

Nice size. Would be exactly right for the base of the Aswan or Three Gorges..

5 posted on 06/02/2011 1:55:19 PM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Hmmm. . . maybe so long as Obama is POTUS and Sarkozy is President of France, we should regard Sarkozy as the leader of the free world.
6 posted on 06/02/2011 1:57:37 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: cripplecreek
Maybe its looking for a place to test it.


7 posted on 06/02/2011 1:59:19 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: mmercier

It would have been a warning shot fired over German territory.


8 posted on 06/02/2011 1:59:52 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Vaquero

The borg cube was exactly what I had in mind.


9 posted on 06/02/2011 2:00:26 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Well now there’s a Maalox Moment waiting to happen.


10 posted on 06/02/2011 2:03:08 PM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: mmercier

Drop it on Mecca, see if it works. If it goes OK, drop one on Medina, then Syria, then Liybia, then Algeria, then Iran, then Somalia, then Pakistan. Get my drift?


11 posted on 06/02/2011 2:04:15 PM PDT by Waco (Nominate Palin or forget 2012 you lost)
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300 KT is a heck of a warning shot.

And if "the dirty Ukrainians" were to attack, the 300 miles range - assuming that the missile is launched from French airspace - would be just enough to cross the border with Germany and take, say, Frankfurt out. I'm not sure how the attacking Soviet troops would see this - as a strike against them or as a strike against last Germans who are still fighting them :-)

12 posted on 06/02/2011 2:04:27 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: Vaquero

I was thinking Tripoli but .. Yeah, that’ll work.


13 posted on 06/02/2011 2:06:30 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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"The borg cube "

What exactly is in that thing?

What do muzzies claim is in it?

14 posted on 06/02/2011 2:10:19 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (We will fight for America and it starts here in Madison, WI. It starts here. It starts now.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Have the French factored in pilots named Mohammed into their strategy?


15 posted on 06/02/2011 2:12:55 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Looks like the ASMP missile. Similar to our old SRAM missiles IIRC.


16 posted on 06/02/2011 2:16:39 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists". (Die Ritter der Kokosnuss))
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Warning shot, my royal Irish arse. On 9/12/2001, Riyadh, Damascus and Tehran would have experienced a nuclear dawn.

The message: “Threaten our civilization, and yours is forfeit. Next?”


17 posted on 06/02/2011 2:17:27 PM PDT by Noumenon ("One man with courage is a majority." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Greysard

Given their history, I’m sure that France would see it as a two-fer.


18 posted on 06/02/2011 2:19:07 PM PDT by Noumenon ("One man with courage is a majority." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Is it legal to start a fund to bribe them to hit that damn rock in Mecca?


19 posted on 06/02/2011 2:21:55 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Awfully small for 300 Kiloton’s!


20 posted on 06/02/2011 2:27:59 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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