Posted on 07/20/2016 11:00:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
The United States runs its air operations against ISIS in Iraq from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey. The base, used by other NATO forces as well, is not American. It is Turkish, and the U.S. needs government permission to fly from there. Since the 15 July coup attempt in Ankara, U.S. forces at Incirlik are essentially hostages to the Turkish government. The Turkish base commander and his aides have been arrested; U.S. personnel are confined to base; outside power has been cut off; and while the U.S. has been permitted to resume operations over Iraq and Syria, it is working under adverse conditions, to say the least. Most worrisome, about 50 hydrogen bombs are stored by the U.S. at Incirlik, ostensibly on behalf of NATO. These bombs are "protected" by Turkish troops and to some degree their potential use is shared with the Turkish Air Force.
The deployment goes back more than 50 years, begun as an effort to counter the Soviet military buildup as an offset to quantitatively larger Soviet ground forces facing Europe. But by the mid-1980s the U.S. put more emphasis on "tactical" missiles, largely to counter the Soviet Union's deployment of SS-20's, a short to medium range missile with multiple, independently targeted warheads (MIRV) in the second and third versions of the SS-20. In 1987 the Intermediate and Short-range Missile Nuclear Treaty (INF) was signed and the Russians and the U.S. began removing their missiles. By 1991, all the missiles of concern on both sides were eliminated.
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I saw that demonstrated during flight operations with Phantom jets on the Saratoga back in ‘64 or ‘65. It was called “over the shoulder” bombing. Sort of like throwing a hand grenade back over your shoulder while sprinting away as hard as you can.
Oh, wait...
This administration has zero credibility with most Americans with an IQ above room temperature.
It is unlikely the Turks are going to believe anything Kerry says.
‘’Twas Archimedes the Greek scholar that said it.
Just thinking, Obama wouldn’t mind so much if Turkey took possession of those bombs.
Inasmuch as it's a high probability that Erdogan incited or faked the coup to be able to clean house of 60k+ of his political adversaries, it seems likely he's got further designs that need to be anticipated.
Let's not forget how quickly Barry said we should all support Erdogan, who's long envisioned himself as the Caliph.
HF
A PAL system. Hopefully they have the PALs rigged with C4 just in case Erdogen gets ISIS to raid the WSAs....with Obama's permission.
....they should enter the codes 1 less than the maximum today. We can always ship "dead" nukes back to Pantex who can get them up an running in a couple of months. I'd rather have 50-60 nukes deadlined than ISIS get ahold of one plutonium core.
LOL, works for me, the less I know the less I can be accused of. Thank you very much for the information you could share though. It sounds like we might have enough safe guards to lessen, significantly, the possibility of it being used against us.
Trinity Site explosion, 0.016 second after explosion, July 16, 1945. The viewed hemisphere's highest point in this image is about 200 meters (656.168 feet) high.
This is incorrect. WSAs are AF Pax only, along with NNSA/OST sometimes and civilian technicians from Pantex plant occasionally. I have NEVER seen anyone inside a WSA, foreign soil or not without a TS/SCI from DoD or a Q clearance from DOE. Never.
I hope this is incorrect. If Turks are inside the WSA, NNSA/OST would mow them down if they tried anything. That is a high-speed dedicated bunch. I'd rather piss off a bar full of Navy SEALs than mess with OST inside a WSA.
NO. Our nukes can't go off unless properly armed by NCA. Proper criticality of a nuclear explosion is a VERY complicated an precise series of events. Interrupt one and nothing happens.....C4 might go off, but not the nukes. It would be messy, but not atomic or thermonuclear by any means.
Erdogan just extended state of emergency for 3 months. Not done yet apparently.
OSINT I have seen says they were gone from Ataxos and Incirlik in 2003, but then again, NO ONE talks about where/how many nukes are that has 2 brain cells working. I assume some are there, but only about 500 people on the planet can confirm it, and I ain't one of them.
Move F22 to Cyprus for aircover. Send in 5 B2s, 2-3 B1s, or 1-2 B52 to load them on and take off and hope to make it 10 miles off of Turkey before Turks realize what's going on. Hard to miss a US bomber pulling up to the WSA loading pad though.
If you see/hear of C17s/C130s taking off with US dependents and landing at RAF Akrotiri, Avino, or Ramstein, you know shit is about to hit the fan.
Yep. Two methods of gravity nukes being delivered:
Lay down method
Lobbing or "over the shoulder" method.
Note: WE 177 was UK gravity nuke similar to our B61.
Lot less than that once NCA gives them to DoD.
An SLBM in the Indian Ocean can hit most ME targets in <15 minutes.
Can we use them across the Middle East hotspots, including Turkey, and call it a day?
I have it from a more than reasonably good source that this is still largely accurate.
https://eurasianhub.com/2013/05/11/b61-nuclear-bombs-in-turkey/
Set self-destruct. Evacuate base. Activate self-destruct. problem solved.
"Almost" only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and nukes.
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