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105 cruise missiles is hardly a major event
My Fetid Mind | April 14th, 2018 | Mariner

Posted on 04/14/2018 8:41:05 AM PDT by Mariner

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To: Navy Patriot
Interesting, the B1's took off from Qatar, Way out of S-400 range...

That would mean the B1s bypassed at least two remaining ISIS strongholds to reach their targets in Damascus and Homs.


121 posted on 04/14/2018 11:56:59 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck

thank you


122 posted on 04/14/2018 11:59:52 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: PIF

330 Million v 535 not good odds


123 posted on 04/14/2018 12:08:21 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: Chode

Note in the last two paragraphs -

- 1 - The Navy just ordered 350-odd new ones in the last two years.

- 2 - The Navy also ordered -”the procurement of modernization kits to be installed in Fiscal 2019, when the Navy begins mid-life recertification.” - which clearly indicates a stockpile that is aging and requires mid-life recertification in 2019. On the whole, one would think its better to shoot off the old ones and replace with new, than to mess about maintaining old stocks.


124 posted on 04/14/2018 12:08:21 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: Mariner

I missed the part about Putin saying if the allies fired more than 110 missiles, he will shoot them down. I guess firing 109 meant he got a full night’s sleep. Right?


125 posted on 04/14/2018 12:08:26 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: mac_truck
That would mean the B1s bypassed at least two remaining ISIS strongholds to reach their targets in Damascus and Homs.

Yep, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

126 posted on 04/14/2018 12:09:00 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: Navy Patriot

Lol...bazinga!


127 posted on 04/14/2018 12:11:18 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

I think their top antiaircraft missiles might cost comparably to a JASSM. Forcing Russians to spend money is how we brought down the USSR the first time.


128 posted on 04/14/2018 12:22:47 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Parley Baer
"It more than paid for itself in the message sent to Iran, Russia and the region. The United States can act with impunity and Russia can’t save you.” ....and North Korea."

Russia is using Syria as a public weapons testing area. Putin hopes to sell arms for cash.

President Trump just proved to the world that deploying Russian weapons won't save you.

129 posted on 04/14/2018 12:23:56 PM PDT by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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To: Navy Patriot
Actually, the way to look at is that Qatar and Saudi Arabia are Thirteenth Century Islamic Terrorist states that the US, UK and ESPECIALLY France should have Nuked back to the Stone Age and turned their "Mecca" into a mile diameter glass bowl.

And Qatar has publicly sided with the West and helped bomb their fellow muslim Assad even further into the stone age.

130 posted on 04/14/2018 12:28:39 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: armourenthusiast

Showing the world that Russian weapons were futile against American forces in the first Gulf War put a heavy dent in the USSR’s arms business. What do they export but arms and oil?


131 posted on 04/14/2018 12:36:11 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: SauronOfMordor
What do they export but arms and oil?

p17

132 posted on 04/14/2018 12:41:38 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: buwaya
true, but i don't think there are that many out there to get new mod-kits, most anything we have would have been built post 9/11 Iraq/Afghan strikes which ate up most if not all of what was left after the Gulf war, not to mention what 0bama used and the 50 some Trump launched the last time

and after looking at the numbers from this strike, at least 66 came from the UK/france

i guess my point is we don't really have that a large surplus

133 posted on 04/14/2018 12:42:05 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Snickering Hound; All
And Qatar has publicly sided with the West and helped bomb their fellow muslim Assad ...

Just as their/our ally Saudi Arabia has sided with the West and helped bomb their fellow Muslims.


134 posted on 04/14/2018 12:42:26 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: Snickering Hound

Let me guess it uses 36 double D cell batteries?


135 posted on 04/14/2018 12:50:32 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Navy Patriot
p17

The Saudi's have been at war with Iran in Yemen for years now.

It's not going well, even with our support.

So the Saudi's are now on a good will tour, they've even found nice things to say about Israel.

136 posted on 04/14/2018 12:51:47 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Reily
Let me guess it uses 36 double D cell batteries?

Don't think anyone would buy a Russian sex robot...

But seriously, brides and 'escorts', especially in Asia.

137 posted on 04/14/2018 12:53:41 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

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The “Saud” family are definitely of Jewish lineage.

One of the worst kept ‘secrets’ on Earth.
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138 posted on 04/14/2018 12:54:30 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Chode

We shot 802 of them in 2003. The Program Office was begging them to stop.


139 posted on 04/14/2018 12:58:04 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: Snickering Hound
The Saudi's have been at war with Iran in Yemen for years now.

It's not going well, even with our support.

Good.

So the Saudi's are now on a good will tour, they've even found nice things to say about Israel.

Also good, one thing we know about Muslims is they never lie or engage in deception to disarm those they hate, it is forbidden in the Koran.

140 posted on 04/14/2018 1:02:53 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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