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Touchdown: B-2 Stealth Jets Return After Epic 11,500 Mile Journey To Bomb Libyan Aircraft Shelters
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| March 21, 2011
| By Richard Hartley-parkinson
Posted on 03/21/2011 12:19:12 PM PDT by Fennie
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
just showing to the world (aka China) that these beasts can do such an act. Was China impressed? Were they so impressed that they just dismantled their ICBMs out of a sense of futility? No?? I didn't think so.
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posted on
03/21/2011 12:51:14 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
To: Fennie
They are not heros.
They did their job!
To: TSgt
The arrow seems to be aimed a little far north for Missouri, is that aiming at Illinois?
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posted on
03/21/2011 12:52:19 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
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posted on
03/21/2011 12:53:20 PM PDT
by
Hoodat
(Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
To: maine yankee
Tell me again why were bombing yet another country ? Hopefully it is to prolong a civil war. I just worry about the size of the carbon footprint.
To: maine yankee
"
Tell me again why were bombing yet another country ?"
Instead of wasting good bombs in training, I see more cost benefit to use them on beneficial targets!
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posted on
03/21/2011 12:54:31 PM PDT
by
Bobby_Taxpayer
(Don't tread on us...or you'll pay the price in the next election.)
To: pgkdan
If we are this far down in our inventory of cruise missiles that we have to use the B-2s, perhaps next up will be Kerry in a swift boat straffing the harbors.
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posted on
03/21/2011 12:54:41 PM PDT
by
Mouton
(Government expands to fill any voids in freedom.)
To: GeronL
Well I doubt it - though Tomahawks ain’t cheap ($1 million each or there abouts.) What a B2 CAN do that a tomahawk can’t is to be retargeted, or take care of targets of opportunity.
There are reasons to use it over other weapons systems. The other simple fact is that the military has never been great at cost savings... that isn’t what they are for ;-) Their job is to kill people and break things in an efficient, violent manner.
To: Robe
Yup, as far as taking a break goes the billion dollar bomber was not built with beds. I do know the guy that installed the crapper on all 22 of them.
To: steve86
“They would be heroes if they had refused the mission”
You sounds like a DU poster
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posted on
03/21/2011 1:01:09 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Good grief.... Did I accidentally click on Democratic Underground?!?!? Just listen to all of you... WTF?!?!? This was a readiness capabilities test, just showing to the world (aka China) that these beasts can do such an act. Now imagine all 20 of them leaving Whitman AFB for points in NK or China with nukes, if the time come... Keeping these guys and gals sharp is far more important than any political agenda... Obama won;t be president forever... Yall need to stop acting like whiny Democrats....
SENSIBLE POST BUMP!
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posted on
03/21/2011 1:01:21 PM PDT
by
TSgt
(Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
If a Republican was President, they’de be applauding. Everything is politicized nowadays. I wish we’d do more over there.
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posted on
03/21/2011 1:01:54 PM PDT
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: RobinOfKingston
Have a complete toilet and food prep staion.
To: Fennie
Institutionalized lunacy at work here folks.
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posted on
03/21/2011 1:06:04 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul)
To: Fennie
I’m getting mixed signals on this thread...
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posted on
03/21/2011 1:08:42 PM PDT
by
stevie_d_64
(I'm jus' sayin')
To: Fennie
To: fremont_steve
A B-2 can also hit a multitude of targets in one mission. The Tomahawk has a submunition capability, but it's nice to deliver 2,000 lb. per target.
I also don't know what type of terminal maneuvers the Tomahawk can do and what kind of kinetics you get compared to an air dropped weapon, whether there is a penetrator option or not.
Personally, I can't see how AV8-B's got into the mix with their maintenance record at the same time they are using B-2s. If you want some air power in there why not bring a carrier. They can surge 100 sorties a day for a while and fly 60 sorties without really breaking a sweat.
If I was Qadaffi I would make a play at hitting Sicily with just a couple bombs. That would bring this whole thing to a screeching halt.
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posted on
03/21/2011 1:11:19 PM PDT
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: Always Independent
It’s the Air Force. I bet there is a putting green in that thing.
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posted on
03/21/2011 1:12:26 PM PDT
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: AppyPappy
You sounds (sic)
like a DU poster I would think the DU posters would be in favor because a leftie is pres...ent.
My own aversion to stupid, non-sensible and possibly illegal war actions is apolitical.
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posted on
03/21/2011 1:13:53 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
To: TSgt
That graphic shows that it just cannot be very cost-effective to fly 12,000 miles to drop a 2000 pound bomb from a billion dollar aircraft onto some 28 year old ex-Soviet BMP troop carrier that can be bought surplus from some guy in Poland on eBay Motors for $4500 equivalent in zlotkies, or whatever currency they use.
I wonder if liberals even care how many books that this cost would equate to in 'Reading Is Fundamental' or given to the Head Start program, as if there were a redemption center to convert military waste to Federal benefits programs.
Oh wait, I forgot. They're all behind the President. Spare no expense. This is the right thing to do.
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