Posted on 08/04/2015 1:33:56 PM PDT by naturalman1975
TWO B-52 bombers flew 44 hours non-stop from Louisiana to the Northern Territory on a simulated bombing run last month — all to deliver a message to China.
The lumbering, 1950s vintage dinosaurs lifted off from the Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, United States, on July 1.
Their mission: to be BAAD.
That’s military speak for yet more military speak: “bomber assurance and deterrence”.
Translated, it means sending a message to Australia and the nations of South East Asia that the United States is willing and capable of assisting its allies.
It was also a demonstration — to China — of the US military’s continued global reach amid soaring tensions in the South China Sea over that nation’s island-base building campaign on disputed territory.
“These flights are one of the many ways the US demonstrates its commitment to a stable and peaceful Indo-Asia Pacific region,” US Navy Admiral Cecil D Haney said in a statement.
The simulated attack run — which saw the Delamere weapons testing range in the Northern Territory plastered with inert dummy bombs — was initially given a low public profile.
Most attention at the time was directed towards the military exercise Talisman Sabre, a joint US/Australian war game aimed at practising “mid intensity, high end” combat — including special forces, amphibious landings, parachute attacks, sea and air combat and urban occupation.
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We should save Australia, Don't want to hurt no kangaroos.
We could build an amusement park there, they got surfin too
IIRC, they did this in the 1950’s too. Also three B-52’s flew around the world non-stop in 1957.
A titanium rod from a sat would do the same... think of all the old decommissioned sats floating around... think they’re all really “junk?” /h
Cute....China is demonstrating ability to take out Satellites and Carriers, while we respond with 44 hour flights, by 60 yr. old bombers....
...all so they can comfort the MSM and the LIVs....
Yep. We can take care of perceived threats some 7,000 miles away. But actual threats on our borders? And in our cities?
(snooze)
Of course, they’d like get a start from Korea, Japan, Guam, Hawaii, NZ...etc., if an actual attack on China took place.
These are not 1952 bombers, these are more like
“the old dog” and are not to be trifled with.
Dale Brown reference...
Sending bombers in (without fighter cover?) to do the job missiles are built for is so last century.
Alternative interpretation:
Obama sends B52s against Australian allies.
Not so unbelievable when you think of it.
The B-52 is one of the greatest aircraft ever invented.
And barby’s, don’t forget the barbys. Oh and Sheila’s, lots of those. Sheilas in bikinis around the Barby on the Beach
Better idea: Send them on runs to Vladivostok
Nope. We showed them that we could engage in a nuclear exchange that would make them blind and deaf, while still having bombers floating around the next day that could swoop in and re-engage. Goodbye China.
We have the B-52s and 12 pilots left to fly all of them under Obama’s military. Perfect.
So by my count, our military consists of:
12 pilots
7 tanks
23 ships
300 Infantry
29 Marines
1 Nuke
That about it?
Or down the strait of Hormuz.
+1.
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