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Falling Fuel Tank May Have Caused Iran Blast (OOPS)
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| 2-16-05
Posted on 02/16/2005 6:34:31 AM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: ConservativeMan55
It would be cool if we blew Iran all over the map. Better yet if thew blew themselves up. Fighter fires missle at US drone spyplane, misses spyplane and hits reactor, resulting nuclear reaction destroys half of Iran. Heh, heh.
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posted on
02/16/2005 8:51:09 AM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(This just in from CBS: "There is no bias at CBS")
To: adam_az
read: they shot at a drone, missed, and the aa missile didnt self destruct, it crashed instead?It went back home to Mama?
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posted on
02/16/2005 8:52:14 AM PST
by
SuziQ
To: bored at work
lands on a heavily mined field. booyaah.
To: Chad Fairbanks
The exploding fuel tank falls from aircraft onto nuclear site. Dam explodes. Something exploded in each case, therefore there must be a connection. Thus the exploding dam caused the aircraft's fuel tank to explode onto the nucler ssite. This makes sense.
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posted on
02/16/2005 8:57:37 AM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(This just in from CBS: "There is no bias at CBS")
To: Wombat101
Thanks for the info..FYI..somewhat related..I sae a show on the Discovery Channel early this week about the USS Ronald Raeagan..her maiden cruise from shipyard to San Diego. It said that unlike all previous CVNs, the Reagan has only THREE arresting wires, but they are much stronger...greater capacity..so that now planes returning with unused ordance...missiles, smart bombs..don't have to jettison them..then can land because the wires can take the added weight..would this also apply to drop tanks..and what about the risk of landing with ordance in the event of a crash?
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posted on
02/16/2005 9:04:32 AM PST
by
ken5050
("Joe Biden is the dumbest person in the Senate"......the Great One, Mark Levin)
To: adam_az
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posted on
02/16/2005 9:09:00 AM PST
by
Destro
(Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
To: ken5050
Well, since most stuff in the inventory doesn't have contact fuses or just contact fuses alone, planes land safely with warshots on 'em all the time.
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posted on
02/16/2005 9:14:13 AM PST
by
Wombat101
(Sanitized for YOUR protection....)
To: Indy Pendance
And they haven't blamed the Jews yet? I'm almost alarmed that they haven't. Definitely not business as usual.
To: ken5050
And yes, that applies to empty, external fuel tanks as well...
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posted on
02/16/2005 9:15:46 AM PST
by
Wombat101
(Sanitized for YOUR protection....)
Iranian military says no attack on Dailam
www.chinaview.cn 2005-02-16 23:54:02
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-02/16/content_2585191.htm
TEHRAN, Feb. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday that an earlier report of a missile fired from an aircraft near the southern port city of Dailam was wrong.
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posted on
02/16/2005 9:18:05 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Ted "Kids, I Sunk the Honey" Kennedy is just a drunk who's never held a job (or had to).)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
02/16/2005 9:18:36 AM PST
by
oolatec
To: antivenom
EMPTY fuel tanks are especially dangerous!
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posted on
02/16/2005 9:18:49 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
To: Wombat101
Thanks..BTW..I'd check your TV listings to see when the show is repeated..well worth watching...also of interest..they interviewed one of the squadron commanders, who said that because of the switch to only three wires, they were experiencing about twice the number of bolters as before..geez..as if they needed to make it "more" exciting...
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posted on
02/16/2005 9:19:11 AM PST
by
ken5050
("Joe Biden is the dumbest person in the Senate"......the Great One, Mark Levin)
To: Servant of the 9
According to a news report heard at the 11 oclock hour.....the explosion occurred 110 miles from the nuclear power plant.
Whole lot of spinning going on in the media.
And it's not just Al Jazeera/CNN......
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posted on
02/16/2005 9:20:03 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
To: SunkenCiv
LOL....now the idiots are saying that it was just road blasting......
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posted on
02/16/2005 9:38:02 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
To: ConservativeMan55
1. Zionist attack on the liberated iranian nuclear infrastructure development.
2. Fuel Tank dropping off a passing aircraft.
3. Construction Blast
4. ???
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posted on
02/16/2005 9:40:33 AM PST
by
Samurai_Jack
(ride out and confront the evil!)
To: Indy Pendance
Spin, Spin, Spin
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posted on
02/16/2005 9:56:07 AM PST
by
506trooper
(No such thing as too much guns, ammo or fuel on board...unless you're on fire)
To: oolatec
That was a whole engine that fell off!...........
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posted on
02/16/2005 10:08:16 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(I call her GODZILLARY because she went to NYC and made her nest there, too.........)
To: Brilliant; Dark Skies
Or they were testing a home-grown Fuel-air Explosive device.
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posted on
02/16/2005 10:58:02 AM PST
by
Perdogg
(Rumsfeld for President - 2008)
To: Indy Pendance
Tehran, ca. 2006:
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posted on
02/16/2005 10:58:34 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(It's NOT too early to start talking about 2006...or 2008.)
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