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US Air Force B-52 Shatters Bombing Record While Blowing Taliban Training (T Vid)
dailycaller.com ^ | 2/6/2018 | Ryan Pickrell

Posted on 02/06/2018 11:17:51 AM PST by rktman

A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress, America’s longest-serving bomber, set a new record for the most smart bombs dropped on the Taliban in Afghanistan, the U.S. Forces-Afghanistan revealed Tuesday.

Shattering the previous record set in November, the American bomber dropped 24 precision-guided munitions during a 96-hour air campaign against Taliban training and narcotics facilities in Afghanistan, Fox News reports. The conventional rotary configuration on board allows the B-52s to easily unleash hell on the terrorists.

“The Taliban have nowhere to hide,” Gen. John Nicholson, the unit commander, reportedly said in a statement. “There will be no safe haven for any terrorist group bent on bringing harm and destruction to this country.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; aviation; b52; taliban; taliboom
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To: jmacusa

I had a great education on Air Force military power during my home schooling even though my dad was a Marine pilot.


21 posted on 02/06/2018 12:02:18 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: phoneman08

Much more prudent to attach smart bomb tail-controllers to those “dumb bombs” and actually hit the target we want to kill.

We found out in Vietnam that tens of thousands of tons of bombs dropped randomly at random “areas around the target” don’t do anything but waste money and shoot down our planes.


22 posted on 02/06/2018 12:03:47 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: rktman

That there’s some good shootin’!


23 posted on 02/06/2018 12:09:43 PM PST by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows what's right and he keeps on coming.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

they created a lot of catfish ponds...


24 posted on 02/06/2018 12:09:51 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: rktman

Goody. Some good news today.


25 posted on 02/06/2018 12:12:16 PM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: vladimir998

Also helps to not have to be in Iraq at the same time.


26 posted on 02/06/2018 12:22:44 PM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: rktman

Pity. Looks like a nice neighborhood.


27 posted on 02/06/2018 12:26:59 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative.)
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To: phoneman08

I believe....

carpet bombing = war crime


28 posted on 02/06/2018 12:29:07 PM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: Cobra64

We have lots of pieces and parts in our boneyard. They were chopped up under the watchful eye of Russian satellites.


29 posted on 02/06/2018 12:47:26 PM PST by mcshot (Prepare for the new meaning of "riding shotgun".)
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To: zek157

Name them.


30 posted on 02/06/2018 12:48:40 PM PST by carmen2017
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To: rktman

It looks like some of the (thousands of) US troops who were supporting the fight against ISIS in Iraq, are redeploying to Afghanistan, now that ISIS has been routed.

The Taliban are going to be taking more casualties in the coming fighting season (enhanced aerial bombing and ground artillery), and they lost a lot of the revenue from last season’s opium crop.

Also new this year, is the type and amount of pressure on Pakistan, who have always been key to Taliban success (and survival).

Resources are shifting toward the Taliban. Weapons Free.


31 posted on 02/06/2018 12:49:00 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: carmen2017

Bomby McBombface?


32 posted on 02/06/2018 12:51:33 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: bert

Guess I’m just old school.


33 posted on 02/06/2018 12:52:26 PM PST by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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To: phoneman08

Yes, me too

My thought is that dropping lots of smart bombs specifically targeted gives lawyerly argument for innocence


34 posted on 02/06/2018 12:59:17 PM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: bert

The smart bombs are simmply more effective. You do - after all - have specific targets you want to kill. Missing a “tent” by 200 feet that holds the meeting you want destroyed between ISIS leaders does nothing. WWII we were happy to get 20% of the bombs within 5 miles of the target - a factory or oil refinery or train depot. Forget bridges or submarine pens or tunnels. Only the specially-trained - and very few - Tallboy bombardiers could get close to kill those targets.

Now, any pilot can get every one with 90% success the first time. Don’t have to fly subsequent missions to try and miss the same target again.


35 posted on 02/06/2018 1:07:43 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

B2 bomber can drop 80 500lb GPS guided bombs in one bombing run. All independently targetted.


36 posted on 02/06/2018 1:15:47 PM PST by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: Nailbiter

bang


37 posted on 02/06/2018 1:16:14 PM PST by IncPen (Put the 'climate researchers' under oath and have them explain their findings. Then we'll talk.)
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To: jmacusa

Yeah. Like the DNC/DOJ/FBI Deep State headquarters.


38 posted on 02/06/2018 1:19:36 PM PST by Grampa Dave (When is it OUR TURN to keep our own money and live our own dreams!!!!????)
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To: phoneman08
"Don’t we have a few million iron bombs gathering dust we can just carpet bomb with?"

Why be wasteful and endanger innocent, nearby civilians? All we have to do is strap a sensor nose and steerable tailfins onto a dumb iron bomb -- and, Voilá! instant PGM!

39 posted on 02/06/2018 1:38:34 PM PST by TXnMA (MSM? No, thanks -- I prefer my news from the other end of the horse...)
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To: rktman

Editor! A B-52 flew a 96-hour mission? I thought P-3s were bad (one notes the P-8 can air-to-air refuel)...


40 posted on 02/06/2018 1:55:01 PM PST by pabianice (LINE)
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