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U.S. deploys B-52 bombers to Qatar for fight against Islamic State
Reuters ^
| April 9th, 2016
| by Andrea Shalal
Posted on 04/09/2016 11:36:22 AM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner
“Alas, probably just wishful thinking.”
Ah, wistful dreams of WWIII.
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posted on
04/09/2016 12:23:45 PM PDT
by
dljordan
(WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
To: Cribb
The BUFs started working Vietnam in ‘65.
Sometimes dropping bombs within 100 yards of friendlies.
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posted on
04/09/2016 12:28:47 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Lurker
and the pilots are modern too some half the age of the plane I say bomb the piss out of the whole middle east
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posted on
04/09/2016 12:36:24 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom yes I know)
To: Bobalu
Yep. Just something else the gutless, complicit GOPe should have impeached him for.
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posted on
04/09/2016 12:36:36 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: DuncanWaring
A college chum was there in ‘65.
The B-52 bombs wiped out usable oxygen for a mile around...
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posted on
04/09/2016 1:00:17 PM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: elcid1970
frying chickens in the barnyard!Yeah, but chickens don't have anti-aircraft missiles.
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posted on
04/09/2016 1:08:14 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Mariner
Sounds fishy to me. Could they be going to Qatar for something completely different?
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posted on
04/09/2016 1:10:05 PM PDT
by
relee
('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
To: WENDLE
Yes they are old but are continually being upgraded and refitted with the latest avionics and other gee whiz accountremonts. Latest airframe improvements will permit usage of this plane until 2040.
To: relee
“And now, for something completely different.”
;^)
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posted on
04/09/2016 1:17:50 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: miele man
"...Yes they are old but are continually being upgraded and refitted with the latest avionics and other gee whiz accountremonts...."
The Russians probably have a similar situation with their TU-95 Bears, I imagine.
Just because they are long in the tooth doesn't mean they're not effective. A great design is a great design.
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posted on
04/09/2016 1:32:50 PM PDT
by
Victor
(If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
To: Thibodeaux; WENDLE
Actually, according to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary (1977), you're both right.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
04/09/2016 1:35:16 PM PDT
by
wku man
(Just One Gun, the latest from 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6uFqQenIU4)
To: Mariner
U.S. deploys B-52 bombers to Qatar for fight against Islamic State Absurd on its face. Pure theater.
ISIS/ISIL/Daesh is CIA. Putin had no problem finding them or dealing with them.
To: Thibodeaux
No I’m right. I know many Qatarians and they never say “gutter” or “cutter”. I don’t know who came up with that? It is pronounced correctly “KA TAAR”.
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posted on
04/09/2016 1:37:57 PM PDT
by
WENDLE
(I guess)
To: Mariner
To: relee
Sounds fishy to me. Could they be going to Qatar for something completely different? In the last 11 days, all Israelis and all U.S. military dependents have been ordered to evacuate Turkey.
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posted on
04/09/2016 1:39:01 PM PDT
by
Roccus
(Fighting POLITICIANS is the true WOT)
To: miele man
seems symbolic of our slide into third world.
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posted on
04/09/2016 1:39:19 PM PDT
by
WENDLE
(I guess)
To: Mariner
Probably because the damn Strike Eagles are just plain worn out.
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posted on
04/09/2016 1:57:37 PM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
To: Sequoyah101
>Probably because the damn Strike Eagles are just plain worn out.
That’s a really dangerous spot to be in for us. Obama’s wreaked the US military.
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posted on
04/09/2016 2:09:36 PM PDT
by
RedWulf
To: Mariner
Probably not.
B-52s can carry massive numbers of JDAMS and have the crew size and endurance to stay on station for hours and hours while FACs and FAC(A)s identify and designate successive targets to attack. B-52s are also useful for the less sophisticated types of attack such as ARCLIGHTS (if that mission term is still in use) when big concentrations of enemy combatants need attention as in, say, Mosul and Raqqa.
Moving the bombers to Qatar eliminates the present considerable transit times to/from other locations. Every gallon of fuel not carried aloft is another seven pounds of payload that can be carried into the fight.
However, being based in an Arab country exposes them to ground attack by ISIS or its sympathizers. Hope the ground security plan to protect these strategic assets is air tight.
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posted on
04/09/2016 2:41:25 PM PDT
by
Captain Rhino
(Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
To: Steely Tom
If only Bill Clinton could have refused to bomb Serbia, in favor of Bin Lauden’s KLA, we may have developed a better relationship with Russia. By bombing their Christian ally we really proved to be an untrue friend.
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posted on
04/09/2016 2:53:29 PM PDT
by
Mark was here
("The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam" - Obama.)
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