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US Secretly Deploys B-1 Strategic Bombers, E-6 "Doomsday" Planes Near North Korea
Zerohedge.com ^ | April 5, 2013 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 04/05/2013 5:28:06 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian

First the US fanfared the placement of two F-22 Raptors in the Osan airbase of South Korea. Then it demonstratively launched a B-2 stealth bomber on a training mission over a South Korean gunnery range. Then it deployed an anti-ballistic missile defense system to Guam and positioned two guided-missile destroyers in the waters near Korea. And now, courtesy of the Aviationist, we learn that the Pentagon has escalated once more in an ongoing cat and mouse game with North Korea, of who blinks first, and dispatched several B-1 ("Bone") Lancer strategic long-range bombers to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. What is different this time, however, is that unlike the previous very public and widely trumpeted reciprocal escalation steps, this particular deployment has been kept secret from the public (at least the broader public), "a fact that could be the sign that the U.S. is not only making symbolic moves (as the above mentioned ones), but it is preparing for the worst scenario: an attack on North Korea."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: b1; guam; northkorea; notsosecret; opsec; secret; waronterror
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To: Farmer Dean

“I don’t know why they would deploy the B-1.One of our subs could smoke the whole miserable country before breakfast.”

Agreed. If we’ve deployed B1s it is simply for “show of force” purposes. Personally, I doubt there are any B1s in theater (and I consider Anderson AFB on Guam to be “in theater”).


61 posted on 04/05/2013 6:31:51 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: AppyPappy

Send a couple of squadrons of A-10s to South Korea. Their ground vehicles will only have to drive a couple of miles before they are destroyed.


62 posted on 04/05/2013 6:32:18 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The founding fathers didn't form this country by compromising.)
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To: atc23
The only difference between the US and NK is we have food in the stores.

There's a reason for that.

63 posted on 04/05/2013 6:32:55 PM PDT by stboz
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To: atc23

“The US is ruled by a cult of personality as well. The only difference between the US and NK is we have food in the stores. The US is just as degenerate and immoral as any of the worst fundamentalist or marxist shadow puppet regimes currently available anywhere”

We haven’t been at it for 50 years, and our madmen are not quite as mad as theirs.


64 posted on 04/05/2013 6:36:22 PM PDT by Monorprise (`)
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To: tomkat

65 posted on 04/05/2013 6:37:19 PM PDT by MCH
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To: Monorprise
""Kim is kinda begging to be assassinated by his own.”"

"In a country ruled by a personality cult around the family as much as anything else im not sure they can assassinate him."

Wait, which leader are you guys talking about, ours or theirs? I get confused...

66 posted on 04/05/2013 6:38:03 PM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: Former Proud Canadian

> US Secretly Deploys...

I read the post and have now forgotten about it. It remains a secret.


67 posted on 04/05/2013 6:44:55 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: xzins
...E-6 "Doomsday" Planes Near North Korea...   Not so secret.

If not a secret it'll do until a real secret comes along.  This is from Boeing's website:

E-6 TACAMO (Take Charge and Move Out) airplanes support the U.S. Navy's ballistic missile submarine force. They provide survivable, reliable, and endurable airborne command, control, and communications between the National Command Authority (NCA) and U.S. strategic and non-strategic forces.

Functions and Capabilities

The E-6 TACAMO consists of the E-6A, a modified Boeing 707-320B with CFM-56 engines, and the E-6B, a modified E-6A equipped with an airborne launch control system (ALCS) capable of launching U.S. land based intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The fleet provides:

 

 

 

Apparently the plane is designed for a very specific mission...

68 posted on 04/05/2013 6:45:06 PM PDT by expat_panama
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To: Strategerist
"A lot of these numbers thrown around for DPRK artillery and its effects are greatly exaggerated."

There are less than 20 bridges in Seoul that will get you to the south side of the Han. You have to assume that at least some of those will be targeted by FA and/or saboteurs right at the onset of hostilities. If you've ever tried to leave Seoul at the start of Chusok, the major arteries are parking lots, and that's a holiday without any mass panic.

If the NORKs drop chem rounds, it would be a slaughter on a scale that would make the firebombings of Tokyo or Dresden pale in comparison.

69 posted on 04/05/2013 6:46:14 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
"In response, North Korea Releases Video Of Kim Jong-un Firing Handgun Oooooou, somebody (or plural) should be quaking in their boots."

I imagine the video of Obiwan's recent basketball prowess was shown to all N Korea with the same results! If it weren't for our national face on the line, it'd be funny.

70 posted on 04/05/2013 6:46:50 PM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Oh well, now it looks like Israel won’t be getting much support for their attack on Iran. I smell something diversionary here.


71 posted on 04/05/2013 6:50:20 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: Texas Fossil

During the time they were stationed at McConnell AFB in Wichita, it was quite common to hear the thunderous rumbling of the B1’s playing with their afterburners on takeoff. You could hear it miles and miles away.


72 posted on 04/05/2013 6:50:56 PM PDT by Crazieman (Are you naive enough to think VOTING will fix this entrenched system?)
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To: Dogbert41

But. What you wrote is funny!


73 posted on 04/05/2013 6:51:50 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: fabian
Nice...really criminal how Truman stopped MacArthur from freeing ALL of Korea.

Well, the Chinese had already pretty much put an end to that before Truman fired him

74 posted on 04/05/2013 6:53:47 PM PDT by AzSteven ("War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." Jean Dutourd)
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To: Sacajaweau

“Kim is kinda begging to be assassinated by his own.”

Once upon a time we got things like that done.

But we missed the fall of the USSR, missed 9-11-2001, took 9+ years to kill bin Laden.

Topping a tiny menace like NK is probably too hard for us now.


75 posted on 04/05/2013 6:58:00 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: Sir Napsalot
I see he's still “pointing”.....and those around him poised with little note books and pens.

They are trying hard to make Kim look like something he isn't. Of course I doubt it takes much to convince the N.Korean people....to scare them I'll add.

Questionable if the armor shot is old film or current....but these aren't for our benefit as much as for the N.Koreans to swallow.

76 posted on 04/05/2013 6:58:35 PM PDT by caww
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To: Sir Napsalot

Ha, I recall another tin-pot dictator did that a few months ago.


77 posted on 04/05/2013 6:59:57 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: tomkat

B-1B’s are like giant fighter jets. They have to make sure to avoid their number 1 nemesis though; Birds!


78 posted on 04/05/2013 7:00:59 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: Old Sarge

huh?
Even in the late 70’s, UHF COMM would not be in the open


79 posted on 04/05/2013 7:05:08 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Telling the truth about RINOS, PAULTARDS, Liberals and Muslims has become hate speech)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America; MCH
The B-2s and all the incredibly fast fighters are pretty incredible too, but the B-1 always struck me as being the very embodiment of >   don't F with US !
80 posted on 04/05/2013 7:05:55 PM PDT by tomkat ( if FReepers start goin' quiet, it's finally ON . . no gulags for me, whatever the cost)
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