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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Qadaffi became inconvenient to the bankers and global business interests who wanted control of his oilfields and stability in the petro dollar market
The Europeans were running those oilfields with 30,000 Chinese workers while the NATO bomb craters were still smoking
And- follow Qadaffi’s gold
Who got it and what favors did they provide in return?
maybe use of their country as a building ground for an radical islamist anti-Assad movement? A movement that needed funds for weapons, food, equipment, logistics, and salaries?
And just how many stories were run on obama talking about the cost of every specific mission that day?
Uniparty media is just political hacks.
What was costly was a fake PR war from the fake war on terror by a fake president.
At the same time 6.6billion dollars worth of food stamps were traded for booze, smokes and drugs at 25cents on the dollar.
4 camps, about 85 muj out in the open, in formation, graduation day.
Arming jihadists is treason.
McCain, Graham and Rubio should have been run out of office.
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McCain, Graham, and Rubio should still be run out of office.
>Whats left to bomb? Was there a Trump rally in Libya?
There’s a growing ISIS presence in Libya. Either that or we were bombing the faction allied with Russian and Egypt that’s trying to restore order to the country. Hard to tell given the utter lack of MSN reporting from Libya.
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?
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Orders form their puppet masters.
Correct.
And the navy has no stealth platform until the F-35Bs and Cs reach IOC with the fleet.
That’s a lot less than it cost to bomb Libya back to the stone age in the first place.
Which is why we’re having to bomb terrorists there now.
Or you could read this piece by Tyler Rogoway:
Why the B-2 Stealth Bomber Was Used to Strike ISIS Camps in Libya
They must pay for killing Doc!
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