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USAF seeks out low-collateral damage Mk 82 bomb
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| 7/1/2010
| Stephen Trimble
Posted on 06/30/2010 7:50:50 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: sonofstrangelove
Imagine guys sitting around, and their life’s passion...is to discuss how they can destroy something to approximately 72 percent. Then they spend days and weeks perfecting the 72 percent ratio and ingredients.
To: pepsionice
For me, that is a dream job. You getting paid to destroy something.
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posted on
06/30/2010 8:00:01 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
( "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"-Fortune Favors the Strong)
To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
06/30/2010 8:01:38 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(At the end of the day, with 0bama, we're on a slippery slope sending a message to an underachiever.)
To: sonofstrangelove
Not a “Smart Bomb” but a “Nice Bomb”. Sort of fits with these idiots in charge, eh?
BTW, we already have something like this called the Neutron Bomb. I thought Barry was all about saving money? Well, as long as it’s not his own that he’s spending.
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posted on
06/30/2010 8:04:58 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(I Don't Want Hussein to Kick Ass. I WANT HIM TO GET OFF HIS ASS!!!!)
To: VeniVidiVici
I agree. The Neutron Bomb is probably on of the great milestones in nuclear tactical weaponary.
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posted on
06/30/2010 8:08:03 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
( "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"-Fortune Favors the Strong)
To: sonofstrangelove
I imagine the Chinese are happy with the plans they got from us during the clinton administration.
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posted on
06/30/2010 8:16:42 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 523 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: sonofstrangelove
How did they perfect the guidance system to zero in on Korans, bomb vests and darling pet goats?
To: null and void
These class of bombs date back to the 1950s.
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posted on
06/30/2010 8:29:21 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
( "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"-Fortune Favors the Strong)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
It's a bomb that doesn't spread shrapnel from a steel bombcase, instead it spreads shrapnel from the stone building it explodes in.
"This vehicle not responsible for objects coming from road"
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posted on
06/30/2010 8:31:19 PM PDT
by
Sender
(It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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posted on
06/30/2010 8:32:57 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
( "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"-Fortune Favors the Strong)
To: sonofstrangelove
Remember the good old days when to take out a factory the US would level several square blocks? It seems to me that collateral damage goes a long way towards winning a war. War is not about winning hearts and minds, it is about breaking them.
To: Sender
It's kind of a green bomb. I'll bet general Norman Schwartz AFCOS is happy about it.
It will be delivered by the B-2 Spirit.
We'll call the whole system ...
Spirit in the Sky - Norman's green bomb
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posted on
06/30/2010 8:37:46 PM PDT
by
pfflier
To: ConservaTexan
I agree you with you 100 percent. I am a huge proponent of the “scorched earth” policy. I believe that round the clock bombing breaks the enemy’s will and the civilian’s to fight.War had become too sanitized.
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posted on
06/30/2010 8:40:01 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
( "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"-Fortune Favors the Strong)
To: sonofstrangelove
“low-collateral damage Mk 82 bomb”
Sounds to me like the Air Force is angling for some “courageous restraint” medals for pilots.
I wonder if you can be awarded a medal for “courageous restraint” for not dropping a low-collateral damage bomb?
To: sonofstrangelove
Yep, but the Chinese didn't get our designs until slick willie was in the White House.
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posted on
06/30/2010 9:22:17 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 523 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: ConservaTexan
War is not about winning hearts and minds, it is about breaking them.Excellent tagline material, and post of the day.
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posted on
06/30/2010 9:23:46 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 523 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: null and void
I see. Do you have the link where it says that?
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posted on
06/30/2010 9:25:06 PM PDT
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
( "Fortes fortuna adiuvat"-Fortune Favors the Strong)
To: pfflier
“Spirit in the Sky - Norman’s green bomb”
If the reader “gets” this joke, they probably need a hearing aid to hear the song :)
Unfortunately, I get it :)
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posted on
06/30/2010 9:25:06 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: sonofstrangelove
No. It was quite the topic of discussion (and speculation) here on FR when hard drives went missing at Los Alamos.
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posted on
06/30/2010 9:32:10 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 523 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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