Maybe it was the "missing Barksdale Nuke"...........


This changes everything.


Get ready for nuclear pearl harbor.

Get ready for operation glass parking lot Iran.

Originally posted by downtown436
Maybe it was the "missing Barksdale Nuke"...........


This changes everything.


Get ready for nuclear pearl harbor.

Get ready for operation glass parking lot Iran.

Common, this was about 30 days ago! Ergo about 28 days ago a fair quantity of the Earth's crust would now be in your lungs... Had you lived.

Might be a little behind times, here... but - wow, dude.

First off - you can retrofit just about any weapon to any aircraft provided you have the propper ground clearance and can physically handle the mass of the weapon (critical durring maneuvers - when that 250lb sidewinder turns into a one ton brick sitting out on the end of your wingtip at about 8Gs). You can jerry-rig the avionics to do just about anything if you have techs worth their rations.

So, plenty of fighter craft carry bombs - and when it comes to tactical missiles - many different aircraft carry them. The F-16 is capable of employing JDAM and JSOW weapons - as is the B-52, B-2, F/A-18 (C,E,F, and G models), the F-14D was used to deliver laser-guided ordinance (worked well as a Naval version of the F-111) as well as scare the bejesus out of people in an installation we couldn't bomb (because we didn't know who was there - so we just scared them all out of their hole with a sonic-boom like no other).

And, when it comes to tactical nuclear weapons - they can fit on just about any tactical delivery platform - hence their name. And, no - tactical nuclear weapons are measured in the kilotons - sometimes tens of kilotons. They aren't the multi-megaton city killers of 1960s paranoia. Fallout is rather minimal from them. And, really - the processing facilities for nuclear weapons are very large, expansive projects that would require tactical nuclear weapons or a really good saturation bombing campaign to ensure it is completely incapacitated.

For the sake of simplicity and operational security - I would use a tactical nuclear weapon and a small strike force to accomplish the mission. However, that does not mean this is what was done.

Since all I've seen, so far, are rather sketchy reports on what, exactly, was involved - I would have to say that accounts of what aircraft were involved cannot be reliable. I know plenty of people in the military who couldn't tell you the difference between a C-130, a C-5, and an F-15. Much less the difference between a Rafale and a Eurofighter or a Saab Grippen. Even I can mistake those for each other at times, depending upon the viewing angle and distance - and I'm an aircraft fanatic. I even swore I saw an F-14 flying around with the F-15s from Whiteman up here - but I know that can't be - because all of the F-14 squadrons were being decommissioned or switched over to F/A-18 Es.

And how they would know what types of munitions they were carrying.... sounds a little iffy. Although, there are often aircraft placed in the air with such ordinance on standby in case they are needed to respond to an unexpected situation. It's not exactly publicized - because we like to beleive that nuclear weapons are evil and akin to suicide (well, on the PR side - it is) - but the reality is that they are incredibly powerful "trump-cards" that can stave off catastrophic failure and ultimately save the lives of many if we run into unexpected nasty surprises.

Also, if it's a chemical plant or biological weapon plant.... using a standard MK-84 or GBU-28B is a rather ill-advised thing. A tactical nuclear weapon would vaporize anything potentially harmful. Even the notorious Fuel-Air bombs have risks involved when used against such facilities - especially biological.

But, if this is true - I say, it's about dang time, already. It's high time we let them build a nice, complex, advanced facility - then wreck it all in a billionth of the time they took to make it. "We'll blow America up! We're making nuclear weapons!" .... Hmm.... We HAVE Nuclear weapons... lots of them.... you really think we're going to just sit here and let you build stuff to blow us up with?

Ok...stop being mean...I think he meant well when he posted this silly article. He read it, he believed and trusted it without looking at the source and wanted to make a conspiracy where there was none.

Remember, He can say whatever he wishes here. That's what those boys and girls are dying for over there. They are dying to give OTHERS democracy and FREEDOM.

Leave him alone and let's play somewhere else.

There is something very strange going on here...(as usual)

'USAF struck Syrian nuclear site'
By JPOST.COM STAFF

Is noted as an "article," not comentary or opinion.

the Jpost cites Al-Jazerra, however there is no report on Al-Jazerra...

For nearly a month now, nothing about this story is adding up. I keep asking myself, "who gains?"

Why would the Jerusalem Post make such a foolish and obvious blunder citing a non-existent report on Al-Jazerra? They had to know their credibility would be badly damaged as soon as anyone took the time to look.

It will be interesting the learn what the USAF has to say about all this... If (and that's a very big IF at this point) it's true we used a nuclear weapon without provocation or first documenting a valid threat from Syria, then we have truely become a rogue nation. God help us, because no one else will.

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I thought the new Tactical Nuclear Weapons were a newer form of Bunker Busters. Thus they hit the ground, go down into the earth and then explode making the ground above collapse inwards and thus reduce fallout greatly.

But I could be wrong but that was the way they got explained to me from a few websites.

That doesn't make sense though. If they DIDN'T use the Tactical Nukes they were carrying, how does Al Jazeera know they were carrying them? It's not like they advertise that they are carrying nuclear weapons when they do. If you look at a "standard" ALCM it doesn't look THAT much different from a nuclear ALCM.

Government doesn't really care about civilians, they just want to prevent others from getting nuclear weapons by any means. The general American public doesn't really care, for all I know, they just want to "blow a fing glass crater out of the fing Middle East"