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2008-01-22 Iraq

US says warplanes pound Al-Qaeda in Iraq targets

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Posted by Fred 2008-01-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1 B-1 bombers, it added.
We LURVE the B-1 Lancer.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2008-01-22 06:47|| 2008-01-22 06:47|| Front Page Top

#2 "bombs weighing a total of 19,000 pounds"

Just about ONE B-29 payload (2-3 B-17 or B-24 loads). A 'major' bombing raid in Iraq involves less than one tenth the explosives of a small WW-II raid. Just to keep things in perspective.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-01-22 07:38|| 2008-01-22 07:38|| Front Page Top

#3 121 killed compared too over a 1000 captured. we need this too be reversed in my opinion

Posted by sinse 2008-01-22 10:31|| 2008-01-22 10:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Just about ONE B-29 payload (2-3 B-17 or B-24 loads). A 'major' bombing raid in Iraq involves less than one tenth the explosives of a small WW-II raid. Just to keep things in perspective.

Glenmore, a B-17 carried a MAXIMUM bomb load of 8000lb, usually 8 1000lb bombs. I think the B-24 could carry 12 1000lb bombs. To put THAT (as well as the Lancer bomb load) in to perspective, consider that each B-52D carried 106 500lb or 750lb bombs, and were usually flown in three-ship "cells". That's either 53,000lbs or 79,000lbs per aircraft, and a total of 159,000lbs or 238,500lbs of weaponry. Now you know why the NVA HATED ARCLIGHT strikes, and why we should have used one or two in both Afghanistan AND Iraq. The world would have had far more respect for us if we had. Casualty figures, especially civilian casualties, would have been higher, but so would the fear quotient.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-01-22 15:49|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-01-22 15:49|| Front Page Top

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