Posted on 09/22/2014 8:37:22 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Fox news reported on TV that the F-22 was finally used in combat for the Syria/Iraq/ISIS airstrikes tonight.
Good for you. Don't give the b@stards an even break. Yes, I said it right. To me, they are just a bunch of dirty rat b@stards.
Shucks, you have my permission.
Ah, couldn’t you just picture Medina and Mecca being turned into a sea of glass? If we don’t do it, eventually Israel will have to.
To me, they are just a bunch of dirty rat b@stards.
They sure are and I treat them as such. They are really the enemy. I detest them more every day.
F-111s out of Lakenheath, if those were considered F/A. I have a feeling the F-4s out of Spangdahlem were capable as well.
is that the number we have minus those that have crashed along the way?
180 is a guestimate.
Right, and I am not a big fan of RINOs either.
yes, i’m pretty sure it was used in that operation in ‘89.
i believe it was also used in another op in ‘86
the F-117 did some great work... and the entire fleet has been mothballed (that stunned me when i found out about that... especially without a solid replacement)
It’s not a serious action until artillery is employed IMHO.
I forgot to mention. There was always an F-111 pilot in the control tower at Lakenheath. One of them gave me a sticker, with a picture of an F-111, with a mushroom cloud behind it, and the inscription: Warsaw Pact Central Heating. It was a conversation piece, to say the least.
I hate RINO’s almost as much. Sometimes I hate them more.
My guess Saudi Arabia or Qatar. French are flying out of the UAE so maybe there.
Should have used them with an atomic bomb. just to make a statement.
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Remember the Daisy Cutters in Afghanistan? What are those;5000 pounds each?
I hadn’t heard that. All of them should have been transferred to the Army 20 years ago. Why the Air Farce has them is beyond me.
An the first use of the ultra deadly, stealthy F-22 Raptor was as a BOMBER! We used a super secret, fifth generation, stealth fighter as a bomber and we only have 195 (8 test and 187 operational aircraft) of them because they were so costly at $150 million (and are now out of production). This is utter insanity. We could have used F-15E Strike Eagles, but the F-22 Raptor!?!? What are the idiots in USAF HQ thinking?
The BLU-82 “Daisy Cutter” is a 15,000 lb. parachute delivered bomb to clear landing zones dropped from C-130 aircraft. The BLU-82 is now out of production and replaced by the GBU-43/B MOAB (massive ordnance air blast), a 22,600 lb. parachute delivered, GPS guided weapon. If we’re serious about terrorizing IS or ISIS or ISIL, the MOAB is the weapon to use on them.
Per Wikipedia: "B61 bomb in various stages of assembly. The nuclear component is contained in the small, silver cylinder near the upper middle."
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