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To: xrmusn
Do we still have one of those “Puff” gunships we could send over there for crowd control? No they are all long gone. But we do have the AC-130s, because heck if the two 7.62 miniguns, two 20mm Vulcan's, and the 40mm bofors don't get them you always have the 105mm. There is no overkill, just the period of time between the order to open fire and the need to reload.

On the down side the Egyptians have squadrons of F-16s backed up by multiple batteries of MIM-104(PAC-3) Patriot missiles, so that AC-130 would last about three seconds over Egypt. Thanks to our tax dollars Egypt has one of the best, if not the best, air defense systems in the world.

50 posted on 09/13/2012 8:42:09 AM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: GonzoGOP

And now they expect Zero to give them a billion US tax dollars so they can buy two new German submarines. And he will go ahead and do it, even after all this, and the Congress will do nothing.


54 posted on 09/13/2012 8:51:32 AM PDT by tumblindice
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To: GonzoGOP

We also made sure that IFF was part of their system and not capable of targeting our aircraft.


59 posted on 09/13/2012 9:19:42 AM PDT by CodeToad (Be Prepared...They Are.)
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