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Posted on 07/07/2010 10:22:51 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
07/07/2010 10:23:46 PM PDT
by
sinanju
To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
07/07/2010 10:24:07 PM PDT
by
sinanju
To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; Mr. Mojo; James C. Bennett; mowowie; Captain Beyond; darkwing104; JRios1968; ...
To: sinanju
I thought it was “Dear John.”
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posted on
07/07/2010 10:27:20 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: Steely Tom; sinanju
To: sinanju
Honest John, named for one of Robin Hood's collective?
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posted on
07/07/2010 10:32:00 PM PDT
by
oyez
(The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has it limits.)
To: sonofstrangelove
Seems to me the B61 was modified for the Bomarc SAM missile. The theory was that it would be capable of taking out a squadron of Soviet bombers in one shot. Or it could be used in a depth charge. A half dozen of those puppies thrown into the Northeast Atlantic and the Northwest Pacific would wreck the Soviet Balistic submarine fleet.
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posted on
07/07/2010 10:44:04 PM PDT
by
oyez
(The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has it limits.)
To: sonofstrangelove
For love and for fun it's a B61 that's amore.....
We bomb-loaders had such a morbid sense of hunor back then. Damn kids probably still do.
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posted on
07/07/2010 10:44:40 PM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: sonofstrangelove
Brings back memories. As a Naval Ordinanceman I was involved about twice a deployment with practice loading of these. Security was very tight from the time they left the magazine until they were safely back. The Marines had two functions on our ship, Guarding these, and guarding drunk sailors in the brig. Come to think of it I was involved with that too.
To: oyez
Actually, When the Pershing missiles were being dismantled they were made into a B-61 variant. Each bomb is about 340 kilotons, about 15 times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. A feature is AMAC (Aircraft Monitoring and Control): Equipment installed in an aircraft to permit monitoring and control of the safing, arming, and fuzing functions of a nuclear bomb or missile delivered by the aircraft.
To: NavyCanDo
Drinking and drunk around nuclear weapons don’t mix too well.
To: sonofstrangelove
It is long past due for some B61s to be dropped on the middle east. After 9/11, we could have done that and saved all of our war heroe’s lives. We are losing by playing this P/C war.
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posted on
07/08/2010 2:14:26 AM PDT
by
rambo316
To: rambo316
It’s like eating potato chips: bet you can’t drop just one.
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posted on
07/08/2010 2:17:40 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
We should have done it long ago.
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posted on
07/08/2010 2:38:43 AM PDT
by
rambo316
To: rambo316
A credible threat is worth its weight in rubies.
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posted on
07/08/2010 2:41:38 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
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posted on
07/08/2010 2:44:37 AM PDT
by
rambo316
To: sonofstrangelove
I loaded these on A-7 Corsairs...I always thought they looked like futuristic bombs out of a 1950’s comic book...
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posted on
07/08/2010 2:49:22 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
To: rambo316
If potential adversaries believed that we had the resolve (balls, whatever) to use nuclear weapons, we wouldn’t have to use them. The most persuasive argument for nuking Japan was to show them that we not only had nuclear weapons, but the will to use them. Until August 6, 1945 Japan was a nation in thrall to a suicide cult. They got over it.
Same deal with Islamist.
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posted on
07/08/2010 2:50:41 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Agree totally with you. These rag head islamists will stop at nothing to destroy this country and Israel. The joke is on us because we have been destroyed from within.
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posted on
07/08/2010 2:54:06 AM PDT
by
rambo316
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