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To: El Gato

Earth penetrator weapons (even the nuke versions) range from 15,000 lbs up toward 40,000 lbs.

You are not going to get off the ground slinging one of those off the centerline of an F-15, and the wing stations would not manage it either..

If he did fly, he will burn up fuel at a prodigious rate and be about as slow and maneuverable as a sloth.

They need heavy bombers for that task, they dont have them.


21 posted on 08/29/2008 3:10:07 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: valkyry1
GBU-28 "Bunker Buster" only weighs 5,000 lbs.

GBU-24 w/BLU-109 penetrator only weighs 2,000 lbs.

There are FAE bombs, and thermobaric bombs that can close up tunnels and asphyxiate the occupants that are also not all that heavy.

25 posted on 08/29/2008 3:48:31 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: valkyry1

“They need heavy bombers for that task, they dont have them.”

True. But we might have to temporarily leave some heavy bombers at an Israeli base, for uh...uh.. maintenance.

Yeah, that’s the ticket. Emergency maintenance.

And, after they are ‘fixed’, someone’s gotta test drive ‘em.


27 posted on 08/29/2008 4:59:11 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (If I knew 'everything', I wouldn't get on Free Republic.)
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To: valkyry1
A megaton on Ahmadinejad's personal head will do the trick just fine. Why does everyone always look for the hard way to do everything?
30 posted on 08/29/2008 7:13:30 PM PDT by JasonC
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