Obama becomes the hero...developing.
Posted on 03/28/2013 8:58:50 AM PDT by mandaladon
Edited on 03/28/2013 4:48:08 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP)
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Will this interrupt the parts supply for my Hyundai?
I’m told “he got himself wounded”...
I read a book that said that the wounds were not enemy but self imposed stupidity.
What a waste of time and money. One Trident submarine could destroy North Korea without launching more than a third of its missiles.
Heck Durn. Sounds scary.
That was called a strongly worded statement!
They are also stationed in Guam. There was a B-2 that crashed when taking off back in 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZCp5h1gK2Q
Culprit was humidity.
Check this article out.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/346704
US sends two nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers to South Korea
28MAR2013
The US military said the B-2 bombers flew more than 6,500 miles in a trial bombing raid training mission from their base in Missouri, Reuters reports. The flight was part of Foal Eagle drills being carried out in collaboration with the South Korean military.
According to the CNN, the statement said the bombers took off from the Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, flew to South Korea and dropped inert munitions before returning to base.
Hence “he got HIMSELF wounded”..
I think your numbers may be off. The MOAB has a blast equivalent of 11 tons of TNT, NOT 11 kilotons.. which is a huge difference. It’s powerful but it’s not exactly nuclear bomb powerful.
By comparison the Hiroshima bomb had roughly a 15 kiloton(or 15,000 tons of TNT) blast yield.
The comparison of the MOAB to nuclear weapons is mainly made to the older ‘tactical’ nuclear weapons such as the ‘Davy Crockett’ weapons system which fired a sub-kiloton 50 lbs warhead up to a distance of around 2 miles(and the whole system was designed to be carried disassembled in a backpack).
The blast yield of the warhead used in a ‘Davy Crockett’ weapon and the blast yield of the MOAB were similar. The MOAB at around 11 tons of TNT, the miniature nuclear warhead of the ‘Davy Crockett’ at around 10-20 tons of TNT.
However, the lethality of one of the smallest nuclear warheads anyone’s ever deployed(in this example that of the ‘Davy Crockett’) was still much higher than a MOAB because of the radiation factor.
It's Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri where the B-2s are based.
48 posted on 3/28/2013 1:07:38 PM by Gaffer: “They all fly nearly 20 something hour missions from there and then fly home. They have been mainly used in the past to try and justify they are still relevant in an irregular war (i.e., bombing the shit of of some Taliban vs. nuking the hell out of the politburo in Russia). Fly a 24 hour mission from Missouri or wherever, drop a few 2000lb bombs on a camel and declare mission success and flyaway home! Bingo! Even at the height of it’s planned efficacy (before the wall fell), it became a fantastically expensive jobs program for California, and a whole host of other states. Now it’s just a joke and isn’t even stealthy. The damned things can’t even be left out in the rain on the tarmac for cripes sake.”
Having a nuclear weapons delivery system which can be recalled after launch is not an irrelevant asset. I'm not disputing that the B-2s were created to provide an option in dealing with the Soviet Union and were intended as an upgrade of the aging B-52 manned bomber fleet.
Would we develop a system like that today, now that the Soviet Union is gone?
Maybe not.
But keeping a few B-2 bombers around is not a bad idea, and in a true shooting war with a second-tier enemy such as North Korea, they are much more likely to be used than ICBMs, which we also keep in our arsenals for good reason. Being able to deliver a weapon capable of penetrating the deepest known bunkers of the North Koreans is not a bad idea, either.
Obama becomes the hero...developing.
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