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Can China’s New Strategic Bomber Reach Hawaii?
The Diplomat ^
| August 13, 2013
| Zachary Keck
Posted on 08/13/2013 4:32:30 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Seriously? How new is the TU-16 Badger design???
To: sukhoi-30mki
Did the sequester shut down all our radar sets?
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posted on
08/13/2013 4:36:39 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
To: InsidiousMongo
Seriously? How new is the TU-16 Badger design??? First flew in the fifties.
Age-wise, comparable to the B-52.
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posted on
08/13/2013 4:37:28 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: InsidiousMongo
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posted on
08/13/2013 4:37:48 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just until the genuine Hawaiian BC records are radioactive dust.
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posted on
08/13/2013 4:37:48 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Not if it gets shot down first.
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posted on
08/13/2013 4:38:15 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: sukhoi-30mki
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posted on
08/13/2013 4:39:32 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? Soon we'll have both!)
To: sukhoi-30mki
“Flight of the Old Yeller Dog”-by Dalezuki BrownLee
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posted on
08/13/2013 4:41:30 PM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
To: BenLurkin
We should sell Hawaii to the Chinese to pay off our debt. Fair trade IMHO.....less Commie house members and 2 less commie Senators
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posted on
08/13/2013 4:42:24 PM PDT
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DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
To: InsidiousMongo
The first Badger flew in 1952 in the USSR.
On the other hand, the first B-52 ALSO flew in 1952...
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posted on
08/13/2013 4:42:30 PM PDT
by
Little Ray
(How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
To: sukhoi-30mki
I bet you want me to tell you where John Wayne's house is! Dont ya!?
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posted on
08/13/2013 4:46:47 PM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Looks like the B1B without the VG...
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posted on
08/13/2013 4:46:56 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
("Task" is a noun. "Ask" is a verb. "Disconnect" is a noun. "Data" is a plural-not collective-noun.)
To: DCBryan1
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posted on
08/13/2013 4:48:59 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? Soon we'll have both!)
To: DCBryan1
"We should sell Hawaii to the Chinese to pay off our debt. Fair trade IMHO.....less Commie house members and 2 less commie Senators".From what I hear most of the people there (Hawaii) are Chinese anyway...!
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posted on
08/13/2013 4:52:08 PM PDT
by
unread
To: InsidiousMongo
Not new at all. Difference with this one, a bit, is that its a new airframe so they will be in the picture for sometime more.
And some more range.
The value of these is as anti-shipping strike I would think.
China already has substantial numbers of aircraft with this mission, again this isn’t new, whats interesting is the current fleet with that task is getting old so they are refreshing them, so the strategic thinking is not changing.
That would be a classic weapon of the “jeune ecole” school of naval warfare (along with submarines), as opposed to the “Mahan” school, where the point is not to secure control of the seas but to annoy whoever needs to control them. Pretty useful for interdicting commercial shipping to and from Chinas potential enemies on the Pacific Rim.
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posted on
08/13/2013 4:58:35 PM PDT
by
buwaya
To: null and void
nicely played
Hollis Wood: "Well let me Mr Hiney Kraut, I fought your kind before...in the BIG ONE....and we kicked the ever livin' shit out of ya!....(singing) Over there....Over there....send the troops over there".
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posted on
08/13/2013 4:58:56 PM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
To: InsidiousMongo
"How new is the TU-16 Badger design??? Badgers?! We don't need no stinking badgers!
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posted on
08/13/2013 4:59:05 PM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: InsidiousMongo
55 to 60 years old. But then, that is the age of our B-52s.
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posted on
08/13/2013 5:03:25 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
To: null and void
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posted on
08/13/2013 5:04:24 PM PDT
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DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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