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'We are running out of bombs': US admiral warns military is hitting ISIS so heavily stocks are
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 4/30/17 | Darren Boyle

Posted on 04/30/2017 11:32:31 AM PDT by ColdOne

FULL TITLE.........................'We are running out of bombs': US admiral warns military is hitting ISIS so heavily stocks are running low.................. US Pacific Commander Admiral Harry Harris testified before a Senate committee He admitted intensive operations against ISIS have depleted stocks of bombs He also warned the US needed to improve anti-missile and ship defences Admiral Harris also told the Senate he needed a replacement for cluster bombs

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: dod; isis
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To: ColdOne

Pres. Trump...please have your military STFU


41 posted on 04/30/2017 12:42:41 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: DannyTN; Hot Tabasco
We might go to war with North Korea. And to be bomb depleted is a mistake.

Two nukes would bring the entire country to it's knees. Ask Japan.

42 posted on 04/30/2017 12:43:13 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Do you really think the U.S. has a shortage of bombs? And if so, wouldn't you think that we have other items in our arsenal that would make up for that shortage?

There is a US General saying that. And Obama was in charge for the last 8 years. Sure we can make up for a lot with nukes. But do we want to go there?

43 posted on 04/30/2017 12:51:25 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Hot Tabasco
Do you really think the U.S. has a shortage of bombs? And if so, wouldn't you think that we have other items in our arsenal that would make up for that shortage?

There is a US General saying that. And Obama was in charge for the last 8 years. Sure we can make up for a lot with nukes. But do we want to go there?

44 posted on 04/30/2017 12:51:25 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: ColdOne
'We are running out of bombs'

Awesome! That can be fixed.

45 posted on 04/30/2017 12:53:09 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Absolutely! But.. it doesn’t make flashy headlines, so never gonna happen.


46 posted on 04/30/2017 12:53:57 PM PDT by momincombatboots (Gas attacks. Substitute Sadam for Assad and Iraq for Syria? How many American lives do you commit)
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To: ColdOne

>>>Admiral Harris also told the Senate he needed a replacement for cluster bombs<<<

Here’s and idea, MOACB’s - Mother Of All Cluster Bombs...


47 posted on 04/30/2017 12:54:12 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Reactivate the closed auto plants and bring the laid off autoworkers back to work

Yeah, the troops are way more deserving than the union thugs. They've already received a lifetime's worth of wages for what they do.

I would take a great deal of satisfaction knowing that the product I was making would be used to fight this cancer on humanity.

There's no problem that can't be solved with a sufficient amount of explosive.

48 posted on 04/30/2017 12:56:50 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: DannyTN
Sure we can make up for a lot with nukes. But do we want to go there?

I wasn't talking about nukes..........

Do you have any comprehension of what our entire military arsenal on both sea and air is comprised of without even considering nuclear weaponry?

49 posted on 04/30/2017 12:59:58 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: ColdOne

Defense Priorities and Allocations System Program (DPAS)


50 posted on 04/30/2017 1:03:34 PM PDT by Cheerio (#44, The unknown President)
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To: The Great RJ

How about some battlefield testing of the new rail gun and laser technologies?


Not until they are mounted on ships and that will be a few years. I think some Air Force planes have prototype lasers..


51 posted on 04/30/2017 1:05:25 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives.have diseased minds.)
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To: ColdOne

This is not “fake news.” Our NATO allies are in even worse shape. I get why you might not want to let all the bad guys in the world know this fact. But we need to let the public know the truth (to some extent) about how f&*ked Obama left things.


52 posted on 04/30/2017 1:05:41 PM PDT by Lysandru
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To: DannyTN

Actually we just developed a rocket that goes three times faster that what we had. Also a new laser weapon.


53 posted on 04/30/2017 1:05:53 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

No, I rely on the US General to monitor that for me. He says were are running low on bombs.

I say make more bombs quickly, very quickly.


54 posted on 04/30/2017 1:06:44 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Hot Tabasco

No, I rely on the US General to monitor that for me. He says were are running low on bombs.

I say make more bombs quickly, very quickly.


55 posted on 04/30/2017 1:06:44 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Hot Tabasco
The explosives are made here.....


56 posted on 04/30/2017 1:06:52 PM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: momincombatboots
it doesn’t make flashy headlines, so never gonna happen.

Well, the RATpress don't really need any facts to make up headlines anyway. Besides, even without attribution, the bomb builders would know the importance of their own work.

57 posted on 04/30/2017 1:07:11 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I bet we still have warehouses full of old fashioned dumb bombs.
Use them.


More trouble than they are worth. And adapting current aircraft to them would not work out well.


58 posted on 04/30/2017 1:07:56 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives.have diseased minds.)
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To: DannyTN
As a side note Danny, this was a Pacific fleet commander speaking on behalf of the navy in the Pacific and talking about his own inventory........

In other words,

The United States is running out of bombs to blast ISIS terrorists because of the number of targets getting hit

Was a classic case of fake news in taking the Admiral's statement out of context............Read the entire article.

59 posted on 04/30/2017 1:09:55 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: ColdOne

If i had some input i would buy as many old commercial aircraft i could buy, worn out 737,MD80 etc. Put a fleet name on them. Stuff every one of them with explosives,ANFO, Fuel air cannister, napalm and shrapnel.Even a tactical low yield nuke.
Have them remote operated, very simple to do nowadays.

They all broadcast a registered squak number and fly the nearby routes but suddenly in a swarm they cross the border for targets.


60 posted on 04/30/2017 1:37:22 PM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best!)
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