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Bunker-busting behemoth: Pentagon upgrades bomb with Iranian nukes in mind
Fox News ^ | May 03, 2013

Posted on 05/03/2013 2:28:37 PM PDT by Pan_Yan

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1 posted on 05/03/2013 2:28:37 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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"... and also that Israel's military can't do that on its own."

Wanna bet?

2 posted on 05/03/2013 2:32:00 PM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: Pan_Yan

balls said the Queen, had I two I’d be king.


3 posted on 05/03/2013 2:33:51 PM PDT by advertising guy (clearly, semi automatic high capacity pressure cookers should be banned)
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To: Slump Tester
Wanna bet?

I don't. Israelis undoubtedly working on bombs of similar capability.

4 posted on 05/03/2013 2:34:25 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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Bunker-busting behemoth: Pentagon upgrades bomb with Iranian nukes in mind

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And Obama will use them too. Yes he will. Right after Iran nukes Israel and “wipes it off the map”.


5 posted on 05/03/2013 2:35:30 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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“But if we had to, it would work.”

At 30,000 pounds, it wouldn’t have to work. They just have to drop it.


6 posted on 05/03/2013 2:36:30 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (If guns kill people, how come no one dies at gun shows?)
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Obama will use this weapon ONLY if he is in political hot water over Benghazi or some other scandal and his numbers are severely tanking. Its a ‘wag the dog’ option for him should he need a distraction. We’ve seen this movie before.


7 posted on 05/03/2013 2:37:37 PM PDT by Starboard
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Selling these to Israel is the kind of foreign aid I can support.


8 posted on 05/03/2013 2:40:43 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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As soon as the Muslims feel good about themselves, we could rebuild the space program and institute the Rods from God. Which should have been done decades ago.

There is your anti-nuke solution. LET THEM bury it as deep as they can. RFG would bury it deeper still.


9 posted on 05/03/2013 2:41:03 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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Rods from God followed by a few of these bombs and maybe some nuke perpetrators and we could almost bomb them form this side of the earth.


10 posted on 05/03/2013 2:44:39 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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That is a heck of a rock to kick out of a plane...


11 posted on 05/03/2013 2:48:27 PM PDT by Average Al
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All that is needed is a few 2-5 kiloton nukes to seal off the entries to the sites. Israel has plenty of them, so we don’t need to get involved (not that this administration would, anyway).


12 posted on 05/03/2013 2:48:58 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: luvbach1
yeah? and what are they gonna carry it with???
13 posted on 05/03/2013 2:52:40 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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Would have to be a modified cargo plane.


14 posted on 05/03/2013 2:55:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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I’d think gutting a 747 wouldn’t take long. And they can do good air cover with their US fighters. Not optimal but doable.


15 posted on 05/03/2013 3:00:49 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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it'd take awhile, but yeah they could prolly do it... restructuring the fuselage for a hard point/release mechanism of that size and the bay doors are the only variables
16 posted on 05/03/2013 3:10:17 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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No, C130 style...out the back. Do the 747 cargo planes have a drop down ‘tailgate’ like a C130? Not sure. But I imagine if they HAD to go such a route a standard 47 could be modified.


17 posted on 05/03/2013 3:14:14 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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Dear Benjamin,
This is likely just a ploy to keep you from doing what YHVH and you need to do. You have no better friend than Him, no more security than what He provides.
Sincerely, v


18 posted on 05/03/2013 3:18:32 PM PDT by veracious
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To: Norm Lenhart

727’s have rear cargo door and stairs. How high does one drop this thing from? Below 20,000 feet, I’d want a C-130 doing the business.


19 posted on 05/03/2013 3:29:45 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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no... they nose swings up and load through the front
20 posted on 05/03/2013 3:30:31 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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