Posted on 01/23/2017 10:52:29 AM PST by Lorianne
Two US Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bombers carried out airstrikes on Islamic State camps approximately 28 miles southewest of Sirte.
Operation Odyssey Lightning ended with the liberation of Sirte on December 19 after having carried out 495 airstrikes. However, the US has launched other bombing missions on terrorists in Libya when it has seen an opportunity to do so.
The two bombers, named the Spirit of Georgia and the Spirit of Pennsylvania are attached to the 509th Bomb Wing, located at Whiteman Air Force Base Missouris. The two were said to have dropped more than 100 precision-guided missiles. When asked why the most technologically-advanced strategic bomber in the world was used for the mission Col. Patrick Ryder US Air Force spokesperson said that commanders were given options what to employ: "Because of it's range, because of it's payload capacity, it gives military commanders options. So in this particular case, carrying a GBU-38, a 500 pound JDAM, the B-2 can carry up to 80 of those." Anothers spokesperson Capt. Mark Graff said that in addition the planes can carry a payload of up to $40,000 pounds and it can loiter for long periods of time
The mission was a costly one. The two flew for 34 hours at a cost of about $130,000 an hour. For the two, this adds up to about $8.8 million. This does not include the cost of 15 air refueling aircraft involved, not to mention the 100 missiles. The B-2 was last employed in March of 2011 as part of Operation Odyssey Dawn over Libya. The US Air Force has 20 B-2s.
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So like what, 1/3 of the cost of an Obama family vacation ?
Wonder who we were bombing.
So we could do this over a thousand times for what Zero paid in ransom to get troops back?
We have no carrier in that part of the world. None...
The Lame stream media is going to dust off their unused calculators and start bean counting every bomb, bullet and bandage used by the US military for the next 8 years...
Enemy losses are probably in the neighborhood of a few hundred bucks in replacement camels and tents.
Trump could do it for less—Pay Egypt 1/2 the price to do the Job. Or maybe France? They have no love of ISIS.
So just more blow-back from Obama/Clinton’s senseless assassination of Gaddafi and destruction of Libya.
What’s left to bomb? Was there a Trump rally in Libya?
If Obama, Hillary, McCain, Graham and Rubio had not interfered in Libya, there would not be any ISIS in Libya to bomb.
The invasion of Europe would not be as bad either.
Arming jihadists is treason.
McCain, Graham and Rubio should have been run out of office.
When I first read about this a week or two ago, the article stated that the B-2s were used to send “a message to Russia and China”.
Good riddance Bath House Soros puppet.
Exactly.
Hillary and Barky sure did a swell job there.
Obama pulled EVERY single Navy ship back into U S Ports before 1-20-2017.
He left us vulnerable to anything & everything.
Think how many rounds of golf that coulda’ paid for!
Zero ended his term proving that he deserved the “Piece Prize”.
Gaddafi predicted at the start of the Obama/Clinton war - if they kill me, they will open the gates for every African to go to Italy and France.
It proved 100% true. Gaddafi was a dictator, but he was against ISIS, and like Assad, there was no better alternative. No doubt Obama and Clinton knew this - but the purposefully created chaos anyway. why?
To advance Islam.
That was Obama’s purpose.
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