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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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To: Noumenon

don’t think I have any Irish in me but I whole heartily agree!

.............then, Irag and Afghanistan and all that carnage to our military guys/gals could have been avoided..........

..........I think you left off Kabul and Karachi though!


21 posted on 06/02/2011 2:31:12 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: eCSMaster
What exactly is in that thing?

A black stone, around the size of a football. I's kinda crumbling, so it's bound about with silver wire. It's placed inside a silver receptacle somewhat resembling an upright toilet seat, and the faithful lean in to kiss it.

The original one was probably a meteor, during its time it is said to have been replaced several times because of wear and tear.

This is what defines the muslims. They slaughtered the original owners and made it their totem.

22 posted on 06/02/2011 2:35:31 PM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: SpaceBar

Actually yes they have . It is why France no longer has military conscription .

The courts said that they could not give the weird beards special treatment with regard to I.Q. tests & religeon when it came to entrusting the nuclear arsenal as the weird beards were “presumed” to be honorable & loyal French men doing their civic duty via military conscription .

The French not being totally stupid did away with the draft rather than trust ali baba to guard a nuke.


23 posted on 06/02/2011 2:42:24 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: cripplecreek

resistance is few-tile


24 posted on 06/02/2011 2:44:38 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

I would guess the pilot entrusted with this payload is feeling like a BSD right now.


25 posted on 06/02/2011 2:50:56 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Hopefully, it’s not some French muslim flying that plane.


26 posted on 06/02/2011 2:56:10 PM PDT by 353FMG (The M1911 is mightier than the sword.)
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To: Hardraade

I love the romance of it all. Release our rapist now Obama, the message’s been sent loud and clear!


27 posted on 06/02/2011 2:59:06 PM PDT by STD ('Be Ye holy, for I am holy')
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To: Waco

And then perhaps there could be a semblance of peace in this world.


28 posted on 06/02/2011 3:02:38 PM PDT by 353FMG (The M1911 is mightier than the sword.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

We prefer the American approach of carrying warheads around in 18-wheelers.


Do tell, how?


29 posted on 06/02/2011 3:07:25 PM PDT by STD ('Be Ye holy, for I am holy')
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To: eCSMaster
The curtained building is the Kaaba at the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca (the Masjid al-Haram).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba

30 posted on 06/02/2011 3:10:24 PM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Sacre bleu!


31 posted on 06/02/2011 3:12:30 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Below this French Rafale jet is a missile that can travel about 300 miles before deploying a completely untested 300 kiloton nuclear warhead.

Firing a tested one wouldn't make much sense.

32 posted on 06/02/2011 3:37:20 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Yesterday I meditated, today I seek balance. That was Zen, this is Tao.)
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To: Vaquero

I’m sure they’d be willing to “test” it, given the right circumstances/provocation. >PS


33 posted on 06/02/2011 3:51:44 PM PDT by PiperShade
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To: SoldierDad
Awfully small for 300 Kiloton’s!

Nope. About the right size even for 1970's nuke design.

34 posted on 06/02/2011 4:06:26 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: STD
We prefer the American approach of carrying warheads around in 18-wheelers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do tell, how?

Ask me. Former NNSA/OST here.

35 posted on 06/02/2011 5:10:28 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists". (Die Ritter der Kokosnuss))
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To: OldMissileer

I often watched SRAM’s being loaded/unloaded from B-52’s in the mid to late 70’s while working security in the AF. The SRAM, with a variable yield of 17 Kilotons (fission) to 210 Kilotons (tritium boosted fusion) were significantly larger than the missle under this French jet.


38 posted on 06/02/2011 6:49:26 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: DCBryan1

How are US missiles deployed on 18 wheelers. I thought MX was broken up long ago


39 posted on 06/02/2011 7:21:48 PM PDT by STD ('Be Ye holy, for I am holy')
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To: SoldierDad; OldMissileer

The ASMP is longer than the SRAM but lesser in diameter and weight, using a newer ramjet system.

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/france/bomber/asmp.htm

http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-69.html


40 posted on 06/02/2011 8:47:15 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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