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Posted on 1/19/17 at 12:52 pm to rattlebucket
Are these people that were formerly running guns to Turkey through Behghazi? Got to kill all the witnesses before they are captured and questioned.
Posted on 1/19/17 at 1:27 pm to el Gaucho
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108 bombs for 100 fighters isn't very economical
Keep in mind: We are talking about the same Commander in Chief who once spent $500,000,000 to train "4 or 5" Syrian fighters. He just wasn't very good at this stuff.
Posted on 1/19/17 at 1:33 pm to Scruffy
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I simply find it very hard to trust these news reports when I cannot verify them.
Twitter feeds have been invaluable to confirm attacks in both the Syrian and Libyan civil wars. That's probably the best we can do, short of ISIS press releases.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 12:20 pm to rattlebucket
Really cool article in The Atlantic this month providing an extremely in depth look at this mission
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Such was the state of affairs in the small hours of the morning at Whiteman on January 17, 2017, during the last days of the Obama administration. Six years had passed since any B-2 had flown in combat. But now, in the privacy of their bespoke, climate-controlled, single-occupancy hangars, several of them had been loaded with 80 GPS-guided bombs for use against enemies who had been spotted on the ground in a faraway country. The preparations had been hushed: Relatively few people on the base, even among those assembling and loading the bombs, knew that this was something other than a training run.
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Here’s how the process worked: Waldhauser wanted the B-2. While his request was being studied at the White House, the Joint Chiefs of Staff formally asked Strategic Command about the availability of the assets. Stratcom is headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base, in Nebraska, where the B-29s that demolished Hiroshima and Nagasaki—the Enola Gay and the Bockscar—were built, in 1944. Stratcom occupies a building named after Curtis LeMay. It passed word of a possible B-2 strike to one of its subordinate units, Air Force Global Strike Command, which is headquartered at Barksdale Air Force Base, in Louisiana. Global Strike Command controls all of the Air Force’s heavy bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles. It contacted the 509th Bomb Wing, home to the B-2s at Whiteman. All the way down through the chains of command, the only thing anyone asked was “Are your guys available and ready to do this?” Stupid question. The 509th is the direct descendant of a bomber group formed in 1944 for the purpose of dropping nuclear weapons on Japan. It was commanded last January by the grandson of its commander then. Hundreds of military personnel at Whiteman—pilots and ground crews alike—had been training for years, and were not just ready but straining to go.
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For the next 30 seconds, the bombs came at them with demonic accuracy. Each 500-pound bomb was set to detonate just above its target for maximum lethality, operating more through overpressure than fragmentation. The resulting vacuum condition sucks air from the lungs while the shock wave pulverizes bone and ruptures or liquefies the internal organs of anyone within about 50 yards. That is how most of the isis fighters died: hugging the earth to no avail as their innards turned to mush and the night was ripped apart by the explosions.
For the handful of survivors, the ordeal was not yet over. The dust had hardly settled when the Reaper drones moved back in, looking for squirters. Figures could be seen in real time, running frantically. With their Hellfire missiles, the Reapers began picking off anyone spotted trying to get away. Killing with Hellfires is very different from killing with GPS-guided bombs. It requires the Reaper crews to get personal, laying a laser device on magnified images of each individual victim and then watching the missile as it strikes. A Hellfire missile has a blast radius of 50 feet and a “wounding radius” of up to 300 feet. It could kill hundreds of people as easily as it could kill one. Once the Hellfires had mopped up, the only sound in the desert was the hum of the Reapers’ engines.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 12:50 pm to Big Scrub TX
Do you believe this happened?
Posted on 7/30/18 at 12:52 pm to Wtodd
108 bombs to kill 100 terrorist? Wouldn't one big, cheap, 500 pounder done the trick? 
This is the best part:
This is the best part:
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many of whom were then "cleaned up" by drone-launched hellfire missiles, U.S. defense officials told Fox News.
This post was edited on 7/30/18 at 12:54 pm
Posted on 7/30/18 at 12:57 pm to notsince98
Odds, who gives a funk about your odds that a bombing took place in Libya. If CNN would have put out the story would you be 100%, is it Fox? or just your hunch, or you just being a cuck cock gobbler
Posted on 7/30/18 at 1:00 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
The numbers are always bullshite, especially the civilian death tolls which are greatly underrepresented in many cases.
I do know that many of these positions thst are struck are studied for weeks, and that KIAs at ISIL FLOTs can be enormous, especially during operations like the ones in Manbij, Hasaka, DAZ and Raqqa.
I do know that many of these positions thst are struck are studied for weeks, and that KIAs at ISIL FLOTs can be enormous, especially during operations like the ones in Manbij, Hasaka, DAZ and Raqqa.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 1:03 pm to Wtodd
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108 precision-guided bombs
108 individual targets?. More likely CBU's or Mk82 dumb bombs.
Out in the middle of the Sahara were collateral damage would be non-existent, no need to waste JDAM packages.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 1:04 pm to REG861
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To repeat...108 with 100 bombs ....terrible efficiency
My thoughts too
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oh so you'd rather none of them be killed then?
Well, you know how stingy they are with the tax-payers hard earned money.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 1:07 pm to Wtodd
Any Russians in the bombing?
This post was edited on 7/30/18 at 1:08 pm
Posted on 7/30/18 at 1:16 pm to the808bass
quote:Yes.
Do you believe this happened?
Posted on 7/30/18 at 1:21 pm to MrCarton
quote:The article makes it sound like this operation was kind of an outlier, in that these were already "squirters" from a lot of anti-ISIS attacks. Doesn't sound like there were many civilians miles out in the desert.
The numbers are always bullshite, especially the civilian death tolls which are greatly underrepresented in many cases.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 3:44 pm to Big Scrub TX
Don't leave me hanging...am I supposed to just casually know that this whole thing is fictional?
Posted on 7/30/18 at 3:50 pm to notsince98
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notsince98
edit bc i dont wanna be banned again
This post was edited on 7/30/18 at 3:56 pm
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