Posted on 11/22/2020 7:02:28 PM PST by Enlightened1
air force does weird shit
I new an itty bitty major that flew F102s, he said the navy would not take him due to his height, but the chair force gave him some phone books to sit on...
Bush deployed them
Actually the MOAB is too large for any conventional bomber.
It is delivered by the Lockheed C-130 Hercules
“The A-10 is useless except in undefended airspace, or in a situation where its life expectancy is measured in hours, as it would have been against Warsaw Pact forces in an all-out war in the 1980’s. The B-52 can launch 20 cruise missiles against targets as far as 600 miles away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-158_JASSM#AGM-158B_JASSM-ER Another way of putting this is that it can target any point in Iran from outside Iranian airspace.”
BS. The Army and Marines love the A-10 and want more it.
I have been on the ground with Army and Marines, I have also been on the Joint Targeting Board, further I helped design the Air Defense for the NCR.
When you are in contact with the enemy there is nothing that gives you piece of mind more than knowing A-10s are on station to support you.
So, if we want to send a message loud and clear, we should be flying in a few Hercs to the area.
Look all around you.
We are most certainly living in the end days this is not crying wolf it’s looking up and listening for the sound of the trumpet everything is falling into place as was prophesied over thousands of years ago.
Heck your post to me is proof of the day’s in which we live in (2nd Peter 3:1-7) 🙂
That's good, but why is FOX tipping our hand?
Heh yeah
Major Duane Dively died in a U2 incident in UAE,
I went through the wreckage and literally cried
Funny thing, the MOAB was invented by a 14 year old Vietnamese refugee girl
If I recall correctly, the B-52s were effective against the Taliban in 2001, with flexible targeting being the innovation. Looking it up...
“Indeed, 80 percent of the targets struck by US airpower were “flex targets” —those given to pilots en route.”
“The Air Force deployed 18 B-52s and B-1s from the US to Diego Garcia. Officers in the CAOC generally could expect four sorties per day from the B-1s and five from the B-52s. Both the B-1 and B-52 now carried GPS–guided Joint Direct Attack Munitions.”[JDAM]
“These bombers, like the B-2s in Allied Force in 1999, received new target coordinates in real time by linking directly to the net of updated information. Rarely was a bomber’s entire load of weapons destined for preplanned targets. Once a bomber crew completed its preplanned assignment, it would remain airborne and on-call for other targets.”
https://www.airforcemag.com/PDF/MagazineArchive/Documents/2002/November%202002/1102airwar.pdf
The Iranian bomb making facilities are all buried inside many feet of re-enforced concrete.
My guess is that it will take several MOPs hitting the same spot to break through the concrete and destroy the factories and uranium enrichment facilities.
Not to mention that to fly in a C130 you would first have to have control of the Iranian air space.
Oh them persians aint dumb, they are dug into the mountains
Still, Faisel, we are coming for you.
The U.S. Air Force B-2 and B-52 heavy bombers carry the Massive Ordnance Penetrator for dropping from high altitudes.
The 20 foot long satellite-guided MOP, is a 30,000-pound bomb with a 6,000-pound high-explosive warhead that is designed to destroy hard and deeply buried targets such as reinforced-concrete bunkers and deeply buried tunnel facilities.
The bomb will burrow more than 26 feet into the ground through reinforced concrete before detonating, and the explosion is expected to penetrate as deeply as 200 feet through reinforced concrete.
Dig you buggers, cut..
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