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2013-02-16 Home Front: WoT
Bear Bombers Over Guam
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Posted by Steve White 2013-02-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [336097 views ]  Top

#1 When Obama said he'd 'have more flexibility' after the election, I was hoping it wouldn't include bending over...
Posted by Raj 2013-02-16 01:10||   2013-02-16 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 What's the skinny there, Joe?
Posted by Raj 2013-02-16 01:23||   2013-02-16 01:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Track 'em Joe?
Posted by Shipman 2013-02-16 01:57||   2013-02-16 01:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Huh, nuclear armed Russian bombers over US territory...then suddenly 3 days later, a cosmic event over Russia.
Was it a meteor?
Posted by Skidmark 2013-02-16 12:14||   2013-02-16 12:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Any confirmation they were actually armed with nuclear weapons, pics of the bombers with cruise missiles?
Posted by swksvolFF 2013-02-16 12:46||   2013-02-16 12:46|| Front Page Top

#6 I believe the missiles are carried in the internal bomb bay (pop-out wings and such), but I'm too lazy to go check.

Likely the reports went from "nuclear capable" to "carrying nukes" in the usual game of journalistic telephone.
Posted by SteveS 2013-02-16 13:43||   2013-02-16 13:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Kinda what I think, bad keyboard pounding. Then again, taking a cruise with the bomb doors open setting of radiation detectors is a bit more than just cheeky.
Posted by swksvolFF 2013-02-16 14:03||   2013-02-16 14:03|| Front Page Top

#8 even worse, they might have assault weapons on those bombers!
Posted by Frank G 2013-02-16 14:50||   2013-02-16 14:50|| Front Page Top

#9 JOE! JOE! Rantburg to JOE!

By Gawd in a different universe JOE!2008 would have won and it wouldn't be me worrying about the 3 am phone call.

Listen to your Ancestors JOE! Send word!
Posted by Shipman 2013-02-16 15:45||   2013-02-16 15:45|| Front Page Top

#10 This is a little scary - maybe Joe can't answer???
Posted by Bobby 2013-02-16 16:16||   2013-02-16 16:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Frank, yeah - but what about those high capacity clips they carry? You know, the magazine kind?
Posted by lotp 2013-02-16 16:32||   2013-02-16 16:32|| Front Page Top

#12 MMM, rotary AMRAAM missile launchers, For B1 i think.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2013-02-16 17:25||   2013-02-16 17:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Should have air-dropped pictures of AK-47's. That would have gotten at least a strongly worded letter.
Posted by Charles 2013-02-16 17:32||   2013-02-16 17:32|| Front Page Top

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