Reuters
A U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornet jet with All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 242, loaded with laser-guided bombs, banks away into the clouds after refueling from a KC-130 tanker aircraft near Fallujah.
Reuters
A U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornet jet with All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 242, loaded with laser-guided bombs, banks away into the clouds after refueling from a KC-130 tanker aircraft near Fallujah.
I didn't see it. Although I don't remember who, someone once coined the phrase "terrible majesty" to describe awesome fighting power. There is a terrible majesty in our jets loaded for combat like that. The majesty comes because they are fighting for good over evil.
"A U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornet jet with All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 242, loaded with laser-guided bombs, banks away into the clouds after refueling from a KC-130 tanker aircraft near Fallujah."
Respond" This was the thread that shows a fully loaded F18 over Fallujah.
Imagine for a moment folks. We for the past year or so have been able to have our various Airforce/Navy tanker type aircraft, fly over the country of Iraq.
It may sound silly to some, that don't appreciate the significance, but do go back some twelve years, when CNN showed you the huge amounts of anti aircraft flak that spited into the skys over Baggy Dad land. Remember those greenish upward going lines in the sky during the opening phase of the first Golf War?
Now we control the skies over this once hostile nation.
We can allow our Marine, Navy, and Airforce pilots the freedom to go to a designated fueling area in iraq and fill up with aviation fuel. So this means that our air arm in the battles have the freedom of staying over target areas for a long time if required, and then only when accurately told where to drop their ordanance can do so with little chance of running out of fuel. So what's the big deal?
Well. Our pilots and aviators do not have to hastly just drop their bombs. They take their time, and do their level best to drop exactly on designated target. Result. More insurgents look and don't fine a nice harp and just go downward into hell instead of their imaginary and Satanically portrayed heaven where the virgins are supposed to exist.
Result. Another mission success for the forces of good.