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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
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Taliboom! Looks like they blowed up real good!
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:17:51 AM PST
by
rktman
To: rktman
Don’t we have a few million iron bombs gathering dust we can just carpet bomb with?
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:23:13 AM PST
by
phoneman08
(qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
To: phoneman08
Yes, but we don’t have enough bombers to properly carry them.
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:24:27 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
Guess we retired the space shuttle too soon? LOL!
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:25:43 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: rktman
“Taliboom! Looks like they blowed up real good!”
I approve.
To: rktman
Would be interesting watching one of those releasing bombs while inverted...
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:29:11 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: rktman
Come, Bomb de Taliban, and tally me bonanza!
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:29:11 AM PST
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: DuncanWaring
You know who you can thank for that.
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:29:39 AM PST
by
V_TWIN
(oks like)
To: DuncanWaring
Really? How many bombers dont we have?
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:31:44 AM PST
by
Cobra64
(Common sense isn't common any more.)
To: DuncanWaring
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:32:48 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: DuncanWaring
On second thougth, the shuttle bomb bay doors required the craft to go inverted. ;-)
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:33:46 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: rktman
I read where one B52 carries the same bomb load as a squadron of B17’s did during WW2.
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:33:50 AM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: phoneman08
Carpet bombing is rather inefficient for going after isolated small encampments, and it causes harm to non-combatants. Why leave large holes all over the valley when one hole will do?
Old dumb iron bombs are actually fitted with guidance kits these days, turning them into precision weapons.
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:37:24 AM PST
by
lurk
To: phoneman08
iron bombs can be retro-fitted with a guidance nose and steering tail fins.
Quite a good use of “iron”
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:44:52 AM PST
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
To: rktman
This is all thanks to the Trump Effect. Here’s a quote from the article:
When an Air Force B-52 dropped 19 smart bombs on Taliban opium and heroin facilities in Helmand Province, Afghanistan in November, Air Force Brig. Gen. Lance Bunch revealed the Trump administration has given the military authority to take the fight to the enemy in new ways.
The new strategy highlights that this is a new war, he told reporters at the time. The gloves are off. Weve got now these authorities we need to be able to go and target the Taliban network
That is our new strategy going forward and its definitely been a game-changer and the Taliban is definitely feeling it.
All the areas where they thought they were safe and they are no longer so, he further remarked.
Thank you, President Trump!
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:46:45 AM PST
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: SkyDancer
Yup and with 100 per cent more accuracy.
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:53:02 AM PST
by
jmacusa
("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: phoneman08
Yeah. Like the DNC headquarters.
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:53:30 AM PST
by
jmacusa
("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: Cobra64
Hundreds.
744 B-52s, for example, were built. Roughly half were intentionally destroyed.
Less than 100 are still flyable.
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posted on
02/06/2018 11:59:31 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Cobra64
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posted on
02/06/2018 12:01:01 PM PST
by
zek157
To: zek157
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posted on
02/06/2018 12:01:59 PM PST
by
zek157
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