[familyop]

"Does the Washington Post pull this crap out of their butts? They are trying to say that they would brief the pilot in the air as to his target and what was expected of the air strike? Idiots!"

If our own bomber and fighter escort crews were ordered to drop nukes, they would most likely receive the orders whle in-flight.

[cpdiii]

If our own bomber and fighter escort crews were ordered to drop nukes, they would most likely receive the orders whle in-flight.

Nukes yes. Precision guided munitions with a very exact specific target, NO! The precision needed for this would entail a man on the ground or in the air to laser the target. To know what to laser would not come via radio communications even if encrypted. The only exception to this would be a known target with GPS coordinates. Even as such I would not think Israel would just send up pilots and call them on the radio and say, "just hop over to Syria and take this GPS coordinate off the face of the earth." I am not buying it. I still think the Washinton Post pulled this out of their butts.