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Pentagon Delays New 'Bunker Buster' Bomb
Kuwait Times ^
| December 20, 2009
Posted on 12/20/2009 10:40:31 AM PST by Strategy
WASHINGTON: A "bunker buster" bomb with more than 10 times the explosive power of its predecessor is to be put into service by the United States next December, six months later than previously scheduled, the Defense Department said. The deployment's timing may help shape new calculations in long standoffs with Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs, much of which are believed to be underground to avoid detection and enhance their chances of surviving an attack.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhodod; bunkerbusters; iran; islam; israel; military; obama
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posted on
12/20/2009 10:40:32 AM PST
by
Strategy
To: Strategy
If its ready people will ask why you did’nt use it.
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posted on
12/20/2009 10:43:28 AM PST
by
colonialhk
(Elect Veterans not Lawyers)
To: colonialhk
[Yanking teeth from chair leg ...]
Good point. Merry Christmas.
[Back to gnawing.]
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posted on
12/20/2009 10:46:25 AM PST
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(Ayers unimportant? What about Robert KKK Byrd or FALN pardons? DNC -- the terrorism party.)
To: colonialhk
“If its ready people will ask why you didnt use it.”
Exactly...
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posted on
12/20/2009 10:47:08 AM PST
by
jessduntno
("The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.")
To: Strategy
Yeah that works!
Let’s also tell the enemy exactly how many feet it will penetrate, what type of planes or missles will carry it, exactly when we will test it, and where they will be stored.
Gotta be PC ya-know! Don’t want the enemy to have to guess, like we did at Hiroshama. Wouldn’t want to have those pesky bomb belted women and children in the way!
5
posted on
12/20/2009 10:51:01 AM PST
by
Noob1999
(LOOSE LIPS, SINK SHIPS!)
To: jessduntno
Maybe Israel are on the short list for getting some of them and it is cover?
6
posted on
12/20/2009 10:51:59 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: Strategy
I would be nice to see demonstration on video, before odumbo and the libtard congress stop its production.
7
posted on
12/20/2009 10:52:20 AM PST
by
pietraynor
(Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Ronald Reagan)
To: colonialhk
Because the zero is afraid of offending the Iranians. What a total wuss.
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posted on
12/20/2009 11:01:44 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
To: Noob1999
It’s not too difficult to determine which platforms in our arsenal will carry the bomb, given that it weighs 30,000#.
You really only have 2 choices.
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posted on
12/20/2009 11:02:27 AM PST
by
Ready4Freddy
(Everyone knows there's a difference between muslims & terrorists... no one knows what it is, though.)
To: dhs12345
Israel doesn’t have a platform capable of delivering a bomb that large, do they?
10
posted on
12/20/2009 11:03:40 AM PST
by
Ready4Freddy
(Everyone knows there's a difference between muslims & terrorists... no one knows what it is, though.)
To: Strategy
Bullcrap. It could be ready if they wanted it ready. This is an intentional and designed
delay.
0 has decided to give the Mullahs another freak'n YEAR, after they violated his third firm deadline, to work on their nukes unmolested. When that time is up, it'll be too late.
Iran will have the bomb, folks. Get ready for a much, much uglier and more dangerous world.
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posted on
12/20/2009 11:05:00 AM PST
by
Stultis
(Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; Democrats always opposed waterboarding as torture)
To: Strategy
Why do I detect the hand of “the ONE” in this?
Dear Israel,
We’d like to help but gosh our Bb’s are running
behind schedule. Get back to us in six months.
BHO
12
posted on
12/20/2009 11:08:18 AM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Afraid of offending??
where have you been?- the ZERO has been WOKING with the
Muzzies from the start!! I am surprised he has not
canceled ALL military programs
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posted on
12/20/2009 11:09:41 AM PST
by
mj1234
To: dhs12345
“Maybe Israel are on the short list for getting some of them and it is cover?”
Hmmmmmm...that would work...but with this gang in the WH?
Keep a happy thought...from your lips...
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posted on
12/20/2009 11:12:14 AM PST
by
jessduntno
("The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.")
To: Ready4Freddy
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posted on
12/20/2009 11:44:59 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: jessduntno
Good point. They don’t appear to be terribly concerned about Iran having nukes.
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posted on
12/20/2009 11:47:38 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: dhs12345
They don’t, unfortunately. That makes carpet bombing Gaza a bit more difficult.
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posted on
12/20/2009 11:57:13 AM PST
by
Ready4Freddy
(Everyone knows there's a difference between muslims & terrorists... no one knows what it is, though.)
To: Ready4Freddy
I think a C130 could deliver it and I think Israel has them.
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posted on
12/20/2009 12:00:18 PM PST
by
bruin66
(Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.)
To: colonialhk
The funding was delayed because it was needed for an more urgent project - a bike trail in Chicago. It was part of their preparation for the Olympic Games.
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posted on
12/20/2009 12:05:46 PM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
To: bruin66
Israel has C-130s, and has the payload capacity, but do you really think that a 55 year-old, 350 mph prop plane could succeed in that mission?
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posted on
12/20/2009 12:07:41 PM PST
by
Ready4Freddy
(Everyone knows there's a difference between muslims & terrorists... no one knows what it is, though.)
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