Posted on 04/09/2016 7:00:14 AM PDT by McGruff
The U.S. Air Force has deployed B-52 long-range bombers to the Middle East for the first time since the Gulf war ended over 25 years ago to begin striking the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, officials said Saturday.
The U.S. Air Force Central Command said in a statement that an unknown number of B-52s will be based at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. The U.S.-led coalition’s Combined Air and Space Operations Center (CAOC) responsible for running the air war against ISIS is also based there.
The U.S. Air Force pulled its B-1 bombers in February and sent them back to the U.S. for maintenance. At the time, senior U.S. military leaders said there would be no capability gap.
But the number of bombs dropped on ISIS fell to an eight-month low in February, according to statistics published by the U.S. Air Force.
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Ask “What would Curtis LeMay do ?”
Ted Cruz was resoundingly criticized for his “carpet bomb ISIS” comments in the January republican debate - by democrats and by the GOP establishment. Apparently, the military more or less agrees with Senator Cruz.
Whether the bottom line is carpet bombing or just intensive bombing, it looks like we’re finally getting prepared to drop more than two or three bombs a day.
This is all for the purposes of polling, history books and theatrics.
this is a complete charade.
not a single bomb from a B-52 will fall on any Isis Target, ever.
we are being played for fools.
This is all for show. There is no fight in this deployment.
The JV seems to have become pro’s overnight.
oh ye of little faith... it will make a fine contribution to the bottom line of defense industry lobbyists
I just see obama handing them over to isis or iran,
Our government should never have created them in the first place.
The Founding Fathers of ISIS are John McCain and Hillary Clinton.
Not by the US as is a ‘war crime,’ only the Russian can use their nifty carpet bombs. We need legal OK before any bomb is dropped which means no civilians or probable possibility of one civilian within a kilometer ... no environmental or significant infrastructure damage either.
“Should have,” I believe you meant to say.
LeMay would ask someone to define the battlefield, and bomb everything of any significant importance (bridges, banks, hydro-electric, etc). For some reason, I don’t think the LeMay kind of strategy would work here.
Course, LeMay might ask who funds all the Toyota trucks that they seem to drive around in, and come to realize an attachment to Saudi Arabia, and LeMay would ask the permission to go after someone else to make his point. Twelve hours into LeMay’s new strategy...would likely be all you need to correct the situation.
General “Buck” Turgidson: If the pilot’s good, see, I mean if he’s reeeally sharp, he can barrel that baby in so low... oh you oughta see it sometime. It’s a sight. A big plane like a ‘52... varrrooom! Its jet exhaust... frying chickens in the barnyard!
The good general destroyed most of the cities in North Korea with B-29s and B-26 medium bombers.
The 747-8 freighter has a max payload of 154 tons.So the answer is,a whole bunch of ‘em.
Like a good cigar, you smoke ‘em!
I interviewed a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel who parachuted out of a B-26 over NK in the Korean War. He spent almost three years in a prison camp.
At least Putin pretends to be a Christian. He does not pretend to fight moslems, he really does fight them.
What they’re doing there? Well we know nothing like this is done withou BOs personal approval. And the headline comes days after some brass criticized him eight years after it was beyond obvious what he’s doing to abuse the military
They were fighting in the war room
He’s hoping some boys from flyover country will jump out along with the bombs, is as good a guess as any
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