Posted on 03/10/2005 6:01:09 PM PST by gopwinsin04
US military commanders are warning Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that tensions between Iran and the United Nations are headed towards the breaking point and the could be a clash between the two militaries.
The commanders said US and Iranian troops are moving closer to each other on the Iran-Iraq border and that US aircraft have been moving in and out of Iran while Tehran seeks to bolster its air defense forces.
Some commanders are urging the Pentagon to prepare for the prospect of a brief but intense war with Iran.
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You act like we're the ones who are put out when Israel destroys Islamofascist countries' nuclear plants. Call me crazy, but I'm rather happy that Saddam never got the bomb that France was effectively selling him until Israel detroyed the Osirak reactor in 1981.
yes we do!
Special emphasis on the phrase 'brief but intense'.
we dont have napalm, we have Mark 77 Mod 5 firebombs now:
http://globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/mk77.htm
A fire bomb is a thin skinned container of fuel gel designed for use against dug-in troops, supply installations, wooden structures, and land convoys. Fire bombs rupture on impact and spread burning fuel gel on surrounding objects. MK 13 Mod 0 igniters are used to ignite the fuel gel mixture upon impact. The Mk-77 is the only fire bomb still in service, replacing the BLU-27.
While the MK-77 is the only incendiary munition currently in active inventory, a variety of other incendiary devices were produced, including the M-47 Napalm bomb, the M-74 incendiary bomb, and white phosphorous and munitions manufacturing. Production of these devices continued during the Korean conflict, though various demilitarization and decontamination programs were initiated in the late 1950s. Munitions destroyed included M-47 Napalm-filled bombs and incendiary cluster bombs
MK 77 Mod 5
In March 2003 the Pentagon denied a report in The Age that napalm had been used in an attack by US Navy planes on an Iraqi position at Safwan Hill in southern Iraq. A navy official in Washington, Lieutenant-Commander Danny Hernandez, said: "We don't even have that in our arsenal." The report was filed by Age correspondent Lindsay Murdoch, who was attached to units of the First US Marine Division.
The Mk 77 Mod 5 firebombs are incendiary devices with a function indentical to earlier Mk 77 napalm weapons. Instead of the gasoline and benzene fuel, the Mk 77 Mod 5 firebomb uses kerosene-based jet fuel, which has a smaller concentration of benzene. Prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom, hundreds of partially loaded Mk77 Mod5 firebombs were stored on pre-positioned ammunition ships overseas. Those ships were unloaded in Kuwait during the weeks preceding the war.
Most definitely. About four years ago they mothballed 32 of them, just over a third, and used the money saved by not flying those to keep the rest flying. AFAIK, the 32 are still not flying. 22 of them probably never will as they are either in museums or in are stored in a status where they can be cannibalized for parts. Ten are in "inviolate" storage. (As of about a year ago).
Remember that report last week of the Iranian aircraft dropping a fuel tank near that nuke installation?
They were practicing how to retreat real fast.
Yes. I just don't remember it being reported that they made these long flights.
Bummer. Just when I have all the sons back at the proper duty stations.
Yeah, those UFOs are really something.
I want me one o'them Predator B's to go after prairie dogs.
I thank God every day for such heroes. In the face of Islamic grandiosity, which counts for very little, they present the reality of determined lovers of freedom.
The mullahs have much to fear, and they fear.
One of the finest posts I've ever seen on FR.
Amen!
Yours is a very sobering post.
It behooves all of us to remember who has to carry out our exuberant keyboard warplans...
Prayers for all of your heroes.
It may not come to that, Iran has to know that they are playing a losing game here..
Nope, I suggest that our "only friend in the Middle East" clean up it's own messes. Back in the OT instead of trusting God, jewish tribes made separate peace deals with Egypt and Babylon respectively. They separated into the two nations, which both eventually went into captivity. Today, they are doing exactly the same type of idolitry. So, guess what, they will get the same results.
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