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US Air Force B-52 Shatters Bombing Record While Blowing Taliban Training (T Vid)
dailycaller.com ^ | 2/6/2018 | Ryan Pickrell

Posted on 02/06/2018 11:17:51 AM PST by rktman

A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress, America’s longest-serving bomber, set a new record for the most smart bombs dropped on the Taliban in Afghanistan, the U.S. Forces-Afghanistan revealed Tuesday.

Shattering the previous record set in November, the American bomber dropped 24 precision-guided munitions during a 96-hour air campaign against Taliban training and narcotics facilities in Afghanistan, Fox News reports. The conventional rotary configuration on board allows the B-52s to easily unleash hell on the terrorists.

“The Taliban have nowhere to hide,” Gen. John Nicholson, the unit commander, reportedly said in a statement. “There will be no safe haven for any terrorist group bent on bringing harm and destruction to this country.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; aviation; b52; taliban; taliboom
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Taliboom! Looks like they blowed up real good!
1 posted on 02/06/2018 11:17:51 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

Don’t we have a few million iron bombs gathering dust we can just carpet bomb with?


2 posted on 02/06/2018 11:23:13 AM PST by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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To: phoneman08

Yes, but we don’t have enough bombers to properly carry them.


3 posted on 02/06/2018 11:24:27 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Guess we retired the space shuttle too soon? LOL!


4 posted on 02/06/2018 11:25:43 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

“Taliboom! Looks like they blowed up real good!”

I approve.


5 posted on 02/06/2018 11:26:17 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: rktman

Would be interesting watching one of those releasing bombs while inverted...


6 posted on 02/06/2018 11:29:11 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: rktman

Come, Bomb de Taliban, and tally me bonanza!


7 posted on 02/06/2018 11:29:11 AM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: DuncanWaring

You know who you can thank for that.


8 posted on 02/06/2018 11:29:39 AM PST by V_TWIN (oks like)
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To: DuncanWaring

Really? How many bombers don’t we have?


9 posted on 02/06/2018 11:31:44 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Go for roll!


10 posted on 02/06/2018 11:32:48 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: DuncanWaring

On second thougth, the shuttle bomb bay doors required the craft to go inverted. ;-)


11 posted on 02/06/2018 11:33:46 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

I read where one B52 carries the same bomb load as a squadron of B17’s did during WW2.


12 posted on 02/06/2018 11:33:50 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: phoneman08

Carpet bombing is rather inefficient for going after isolated small encampments, and it causes harm to non-combatants. Why leave large holes all over the valley when one hole will do?

Old dumb iron bombs are actually fitted with guidance kits these days, turning them into precision weapons.


13 posted on 02/06/2018 11:37:24 AM PST by lurk
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To: phoneman08

iron bombs can be retro-fitted with a guidance nose and steering tail fins.

Quite a good use of “iron”


14 posted on 02/06/2018 11:44:52 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: rktman

This is all thanks to the Trump Effect. Here’s a quote from the article:

When an Air Force B-52 dropped 19 smart bombs on Taliban opium and heroin facilities in Helmand Province, Afghanistan in November, Air Force Brig. Gen. Lance Bunch revealed the Trump administration has given the military authority to take the fight to the enemy in new ways.

“The new strategy highlights that this is a new war,” he told reporters at the time. “The gloves are off. We’ve got now these authorities we need to be able to go and target the Taliban network … That is our new strategy going forward and it’s definitely been a game-changer and the Taliban is definitely feeling it.”

“All the areas where they thought they were safe and they are no longer so,” he further remarked.

Thank you, President Trump!


15 posted on 02/06/2018 11:46:45 AM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: SkyDancer

Yup and with 100 per cent more accuracy.


16 posted on 02/06/2018 11:53:02 AM PST by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: phoneman08

Yeah. Like the DNC headquarters.


17 posted on 02/06/2018 11:53:30 AM PST by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Cobra64

Hundreds.

744 B-52s, for example, were built. Roughly half were intentionally destroyed.

Less than 100 are still flyable.


18 posted on 02/06/2018 11:59:31 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Cobra64

There’s only 76 B52s.


19 posted on 02/06/2018 12:01:01 PM PST by zek157
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To: zek157

https://warisboring.com/i-ll-be-damned-these-boneyard-b-52s-can-still-fly/


20 posted on 02/06/2018 12:01:59 PM PST by zek157
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