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2004-04-26 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Steve 2004-04-26 9:54:17 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Maybe this is just a decoy..you know to atract the jihadi to attack America, another flypaper thingy.

Posted by Anonymous4464 2004-04-26 10:41:30 AM|| 2004-04-26 10:41:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Also a second air front against Iran

Posted by Frank G 2004-04-26 10:55:12 AM|| 2004-04-26 10:55:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 oh my god! just how is biefing up forces in this area a decoy?? what a little free time at dnc hq? dumbass!

so what would you call a prez who pisses on the US military by throwing away medals? (be it your own or someone ele's!) a surrender!

Posted by Dan 2004-04-26 10:55:32 AM|| 2004-04-26 10:55:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 It was only RIBBONS! LOL.

Posted by Shipman 2004-04-26 11:00:00 AM|| 2004-04-26 11:00:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 but he agreed to accept them before he agreed to decline them.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-04-26 11:43:42 AM|| 2004-04-26 11:43:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 You'd be surprised how easy it is to hide an airfield. We have three or four that are almost impossible to see, even from the air. The Soviets hid one we probably would never have found, if we hadn't caught an aircraft on the runway. Camouflage, concealment, and deception is something we do quite well. Hiding the BUILDING of one is another matter...

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-04-26 12:43:57 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-04-26 12:43:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Yosemite Sam.. you nearly made me spit my soda on the company computer!

Posted by Dcreeper 2004-04-26 1:26:51 PM|| 2004-04-26 1:26:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 OP: I saw the Israeli airfield at Ras Nas Mohamed in the Sinai. They built a dirt strip next to the concrete strip. They would light up the dirt strip at night and leave the real one dark. The Egyptians would come screaming in at night and bomb the decoy strip. Nine years after the Israelis turned it over, the decoy strip was completely cratered while there was no evidence that the real strip had ever been bombed.

Also, have you ever driven the causeway from the Singapore airport to the city? There is a reason that the median consists completely of potted plants.

Posted by 11A5S 2004-04-26 2:10:38 PM|| 2004-04-26 2:10:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Also, have you ever driven the causeway from the Singapore airport to the city? There is a reason that the median consists completely of potted plants.

Yup, to a trained AF eye it jumps right out. Also those straight highways in Switzerland that take a sudden turn just before those big doors in the side of a mountain.

Posted by Steve 2004-04-26 2:46:49 PM|| 2004-04-26 2:46:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 its been rumored that there are stretches of highway here in the US that were made for the same purpose....

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-04-26 3:49:14 PM|| 2004-04-26 3:49:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm just wanting to see a D-9 make a parachute landing.

Posted by Shipman 2004-04-26 3:49:17 PM|| 2004-04-26 3:49:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 11A5S, somehow I don't picture Egyptian bombers accurate enough to never hit the real runway.

Posted by john 2004-04-26 4:00:23 PM|| 2004-04-26 4:00:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 YS - it was required that every interstate highway be constructed so as to provide air landing capability. Note the regularly spaced long straight stretches

Posted by Frank G 2004-04-26 4:11:40 PM|| 2004-04-26 4:11:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 John, I agree. But I've seen it from the air several times. I walked a good portion of the real runway, too and never saw any evidence of cratering. A lot of the bombs did miss the decoy. I guess the IAF just did a good job of figuring out the distance between the two necessary to minimize damage to the real one.

OTOH, I've flown over the Egyptian border forts from the '67 war also. If a single IDF round or bomb landed outside the fortress walls, I couldn't see any evidence of it.

Posted by 11A5S 2004-04-26 4:27:01 PM|| 2004-04-26 4:27:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 C-17s most likely, plus the AC-130s, A-10s and choppers.

I would assume that they have plans to secure the larger surrounding area. It would be a hell of a black eye to lose a Globemaster or Galaxy to enemy fire while on approach.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-04-26 5:06:46 PM|| 2004-04-26 5:06:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 its been rumored that there are stretches of highway here in the US that were made for the same purpose....
Interstate highways that travel straight for ten miles or more that are three lanes wide but don't have ten cars an hour over them, back country highways that suddenly become MUCH wider than they need to be, a lot of "passing lanes" in out-of-the-way places that take a normal highway into something 300 feet wide and over two miles long...
Naaaaa, we don't have anything like that! Whatever gave you such a silly idea? 8^)

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-04-26 7:21:50 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-04-26 7:21:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 OP-
There's two stretches of road identical to what you described in the area where I grew up - one next to a tank plant that used to be owned by GM, and another next to a Big 3 assembly plant. People never listened to me when I tried to tell them...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-04-26 7:53:11 PM|| 2004-04-26 7:53:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 The closeness of the Airbase to anti al Qaeda operations -- especially the hunt for top leaders -- make sense for getting the most out of resources. UAVs will play a large role. Imagine armed UAVs with Viper Strike glide weapons and software image recognition technology highlighted at

http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_aerospacedaily_story.jsp?id=news/bat04134.xml.

If that story is for real, things will get interesting very quickly.

Posted by VRWconspiracy 2004-04-26 11:04:41 PM|| 2004-04-26 11:04:41 PM|| Front Page Top

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