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EXCLUSIVE: US Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers Back on 24-Hour Alert
Defense One ^
| October 22 2017
| Marcus Weisgerber
Posted on 10/22/2017 6:42:38 PM PDT by Ben Mugged
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To: Ben Mugged
To: Ben Mugged
I’m worried that the reason we’re hearing this, and the reason Trump has been purposefully saber rattling with regards North Korea, is because we’ve heard something unsettling.
To: Ben Mugged
"...several B-52s parked on them, laden with nuclear weapons and set to take off at a moments notice."
3 - 2 - 1 - Liberal's heads explode.
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posted on
10/22/2017 6:50:37 PM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: Ben Mugged
That means the long-dormant concrete pads at the ends of this bases 11,000-foot runway dubbed the Christmas tree for their angular markings could once again find several B-52s parked on them, laden with nuclear weapons and set to take off at a moments notice.
Wouldn't we be better prepared if we weren't using B-52s made before most of us were born?
To: Ben Mugged
Can hardly wait for comments from obunghole and cankles...
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posted on
10/22/2017 6:53:04 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: Ben Mugged
This dovetails with the executive order President Trump signed recently that authorized reactivation of up to 1000 Air Force pilots.
I remember when BUFFs used to be on ready alert at Fairchild AFB. Used to have a couple of friends who were both crew chiefs. Fairchild is now a KC-135 base.
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posted on
10/22/2017 6:59:06 PM PDT
by
hoagy62
("It's not the whole world gone Imad. Just the people in it." Oh start)
To: Ben Mugged
He’s also talking about recalling a thousand retired military pilots, which would enable greater operational tempo.
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posted on
10/22/2017 7:00:57 PM PDT
by
JohnBovenmyer
(Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
To: Ben Mugged
I would rather have the B-52's flying at fail-safe
points rather than parked waiting for the order to go.
That's right, good old Cold-War strategy. Maybe flying
somewhere around North Korea. Maybe that will change
their behavior.
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posted on
10/22/2017 7:00:59 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: Ben Mugged
GOOD. Always be pepared.... like today’s boys’ scouts.. condoms.
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posted on
10/22/2017 7:01:11 PM PDT
by
DOC44
(Have gun will travel.)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
Actually I was born before they were born.
I also worked on them when they had miniature vacuum tubes then transistors and then Integrated Circuits and signal processors then Infrared Video and optical Video.
They have been rebuilt from Radome to mini-gun many times.
Unfortunately that is what you do when you have a do nothing congress for years and metro sexual illegal as president for 8 years.
The B-52s are good to go.
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posted on
10/22/2017 7:01:38 PM PDT
by
Hang'emAll
(If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
"Wouldn't we be better prepared if we weren't using B-52s made before most of us were born?"We have other, more modern, aircraft that are also capable of carrying the payloads we're talking about here.
This also could be for show, as the real sizzle is in the upper plains states and gliding through the depths.
To: neverevergiveup
Im worried that the reason were hearing this, and the reason Trump has been purposefully saber rattling with regards North Korea, is because weve heard something unsettling.The B-52s always airborne is a measure against a massive first strike by an enemy capable of effectively wiping out the US nuclear force. North Korea is not close to being capable of such a first strike.
To: Ben Mugged
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has tested 30 percent more [nuclear weapons] than his father and grandfather combined, Either North Korea has a huge stockpile of fissile material or they are using up their cache of warheads.
Maybe Kim is using weapons testing as a negotiating tool. Perhaps he is following the dangerous path that Saddam Hussain took to his doom.
Look at me. I am the toughest hombre in South East Asia.
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posted on
10/22/2017 7:10:27 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
“North Korea is not close to being capable of such a first strike.”
I understand. That’s partially what’s worrying.
To: Pontiac
South East Asia is a long way from Korea.
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posted on
10/22/2017 7:18:19 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Make American Intelligence Great Again.)
To: Ben Mugged
“Moments notice” ? How long is the pre flight for a B-52?
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posted on
10/22/2017 7:18:58 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure)
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
10/22/2017 7:21:12 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Ben Mugged
Good luck keeping that going.
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posted on
10/22/2017 7:48:42 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(Burn. It. Down.)
To: Hang'emAll
Somehow I’m confident just knowing that men like you kept these massive airplanes up-to-date and mission ready. Years ago, I worked at the end of a Marine base. Anyone who’s worked around these airfields must have the same great memories. The transports lumbered along almost to the end of the runway as if they’d never get off the ground, sucking the pressure out of the air, roaring so loud everyone stopped talking mid-sentence til the big birds lifted off and flew away.
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posted on
10/22/2017 7:54:20 PM PDT
by
The Westerner
(Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education and the forests!)
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