B-52 when it absolutely,positively must be destroyed overnight!

[EagleEye]

the most feared airstrike of all bar-none the MIGHTY B-52 !!

 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-sends-legendary-b-52-bomber-action-against-182402057.html

[yota691]

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B-52 was sent to destroy an IS weapons storage facility in the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, about 35 miles (60 kilometers) south of Mosul (AFP Photo/Jung Yeon-Je)

 

Washington (AFP) - The US Air Force for the first time deployed a B-52 bomber against the Islamic State, the Pentagon said Wednesday as it ramps up a 20-month campaign to smash the jihadists.

The bombing mission, in which a hulking B-52 destroyed a weapons storage facility south of Mosul, comes the same week that Defense Secretary Ash Carter visited Baghdad and announced extra US troops, cash and equipment for the anti-IS campaign in Iraq.

In other signs of an increasing tempo, US commandos working with Kurdish troops conducted a raid targeting a senior IS group figure and the Pentagon said it has changed how air strikes risking civilian deaths are approved.

Under the new rules, authority now comes from the commanding three-star US general in Baghdad, instead of going through a four-star at the US Central Command's headquarters in Florida.

Baghdad-based military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren insisted the changes do not lessen oversight standards in determining when civilian losses are an acceptable risk.

"This does not translate to more civilian casualties, this translates to a more rapid execution of strikes," Warren said.

The Pentagon has acknowledged 26 civilian deaths due to US-led coalition strikes since the campaign began in August 2014 in Iraq, and credits the use of guided missiles in keeping the number relatively low -- though independent observers say the figure is far higher.

- More US troops -

Carter this week announced an additional 217 US forces would be deployed to Iraq as advisors, pushing the official count there past 4,000.

The Pentagon has also offered Apache attack helicopters for use in an eventual push on Mosul, Iraq's second city and which is under control of the IS group.

Separately, Danish lawmakers have approved a plan to commit seven F-16 warplanes, a transport aircraft and 400 military personnel to expand its fight against the extremists.

Monday's strike by a B-52 Stratofortress blew up an IS weapons storage facility in the town of Qayyarah, about 35 miles (60 kilometers) south of Mosul.

The enormous planes, originally designed in the 1950s, became a symbol of US might during the Cold War and the aircraft was used to conduct carpet bombing in Vietnam.

Warren said the B-52s are only being armed with guided bombs.

"There are memories in the collective unconscious of B-52s, decades ago, doing... arguably indiscriminate bombing," Warren said.

"Those days are long gone. The B-52 is a precision-strike weapons platform and it will conduct the same type of precision strikes that we have seen for the last 20 months."

Several B-52s arrived in Qatar earlier this month to replace a contingent of newer B-1 bombers that had been working in Iraq and Syria for about a year.

Warren also announced that US commandos in northern Iraq had targeted Suleiman Abd Shabib al-Jabouri, "one of ISIL's military emirs and an ISIL war council member."

The Kurdish regional security council said Jabouri was killed in the raid, conducted jointly with Kurdish fighters.

- 'Shoving match' -

The US military has since 2014 led an international coalition against the IS group in Iraq and Syria after the jihadists captured vast areas of territory across the two countries.

Despite major gains, including the recapture of the Iraqi city of Ramadi, the coalition has still not chased IS fighters from Raqa in Syria or Mosul, as well as several other important towns.

In Syria, vetted Syrian opposition fighters are clashing with IS fighters in the north, especially around the Manbij region, but have recently lost some ground to the jihadists.

It "has developed into a shoving match," Warren said. "We will continue to pressure ISIL but we expect them to fight hard to hold their ground."

Additionally, the IS group has tightened the noose on a regime-held enclave in eastern Syria, overrunning part of the city of Deir Ezzor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Elsewhere in Syria, a Russian- and US-brokered ceasefire grew ever more fragile as violence continued to flare up around Aleppo. IS and other jihadist groups are not party to the February "cessation of hostilities."

[yota691]

America used for the first time, "the Cold War icon" pounding goal Daash south of Mosul

Thursday 21-04-2016 | 9:39:13

 

 

 

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Twilight News / bombers "B-52" America bombed on Wednesday for the first time a target for organizing "Daash" south of the Iraqi city of Mosul, according to the US military announced.

He revealed US military spokesman in Iraq, Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Warren, the launcher "B-52" carried out the first raid, and targeted weapons store in the city of just sixty kilometers south of Mosul, the second Iraqi cities under the control of the "Daash," explaining that these bombers are not implemented only a minute strikes using smart bombs.

Warren pointed out that he had previously used these bombers heavily during the Vietnam War and in Afghanistan against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and then used those bombers in Iraq.

According to this Central Command US Air Force that US bombers, described as "an icon of the Cold War," and reached "many" military air base in Qatar, on the tenth of April / April.

Central Command, the US Air Force did not announce the number of bombers sent to Qatar so far.

The latest "B-52" aircraft entered service in 1962, and the fall in the strategic long-range aircraft box capable of carrying nuclear warheads, as is unmatched in the world only Russia's strategic aircraft of the same class.

[nstoolman1]

Nothing says "We are going to kick your a**"  like heavy iron. Carpet Bombing: When you positively need something destroyed over night.

[yota691]

American intervention to fight the most powerful weapons in Iraq Daash

Thursday 21-04-2016 | 2:29:06

 

 

 

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Twilight News / American army announced on Thursday for entering the giant bomber (B-52), which embodies more than 60 years of American power firearms, the war in Iraq against the "Islamic State" (Daash).

He said US military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren, said that "bomber bombed Daash goals in Iraq," noting that "this raid is the first launched by the bombers."

He pointed out that "these bombers already used in Vietnam and Afghanistan, not be carried out only a minute strikes, using smart bombs," noting that "resorting to these bombers were heavily during the Vietnam and the war in Afghanistan against the Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, and that was in the distant past." He stressed that "the goal bombers implementation of surgical strikes, such as those carried out 20 months ago."

Furthermore, the bombing of Flight International Alliance of sites to organize "Daash" in Kirkuk, killing 20 and injuring about an element of the regulation. A local source for "new Arab", "The bombing targeted some sites" Daash "in hand Srkran west of Kirkuk, and sign eight dead and about 12 wounded."

It is noteworthy that the United States is leading the international coalition to hit the organization "Daash" in Iraq, strikes have caused hundreds of deaths and injuries in the ranks of the organization, including senior leaders.

[Synopsis]

Maybe some one could help me out with the second article Yota posted.  The plane shown in that picture is a turbofan and not a jet engine plane.  Are there turbofan versions of the B-52 or is this a plane of a different designation?  I may be mistaken, but I thought the B-52 was a quick reaction high altitude bomber.  I'm not sure a turbofan design would meet that criterion.

[Synopsis]

Maybe some one could help me out with the second article Yota posted.  The plane shown in that picture is a turbofan and not a jet engine plane.  Are there turbofan versions of the B-52 or is this a plane of a different designation?  I may be mistaken, but I thought the B-52 was a quick reaction high altitude bomber.  I'm not sure a turbofan design would meet that criterion.

[EagleEye]

Synopsis that photo is a C-130 gunship ...not a BUFF..

 

[Synopsis]

Thank You, EagleEye, for clarifying.  The same article was referencing B-52s while C-130s were not mentioned in the article.  Not sure why they would use the C-130 picture (although very impressive) while referencing B-52s.  But, hey, I'm all for using whatever they want to wipe out all the Daeshers - C-130 gunships included!  Maybe include a few A-10s and "Puff The Magic Dragons" just for show.

[SocalDinar]

Thanks Eagle Eye

WATCH: B-52s shred Islamic State targets in Iraq

 

By David Brown (@dave_brown24) • 4/21/16 1:35 PM

 

 

 

 

The U.S. military on Thursday released video of an Air Force B-52 aircraft dropping bombs on Islamic State targets on Monday.

"Earlier this month, the U.S. Air Force deployed the legendary B-52 Stratofortress bomber into theater," Col. Steve Warren, spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, told reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday. "The B-52 is a long-range, heavy bomber that can perform a variety of missions, including strategic attack, close air support, air interdiction and maritime operations.

"On Monday, this iconic platform conducted its first mission against an ISIL weapons storage facility in Qayyarah, Iraq."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2589176

[gymrat76541]

During WWII 60 million civilians were killed. That is why we can not defeat ISIS. We are attempting to target individuals. This is way too expensive & ineffective.

Send a flight of B52's over an ISIS controlled city and reduce it to rubble. If you seriously want to win the war then you must accept that non-combatants are going to get killed. The enemy hides behind the innocent but if the innocents know that this will result in their death, they will fight tooth & nail to get away from our targets.

Stop ***** footing around with this war!

[EagleEye]

B-52's are actually a little more surgical than you may think gym...ask anyone who returned from the Hanoi Hilton and they will tell you how we marched our weapons directly thru the enemy stores across the street from them. In addition the level of weapon sophistication now is light years better....evil always will try to hide behind innocents..but we're getting better at (to steal a line from the Ten Commandments) "flicking those "cockroaches" off the street without touching the innocents next door"

 

GO BUFF's

[SnowGlobe7]

been posted before...but it is one of my favorite.......GO USA!!!!!!

 

[SnowGlobe7]

 

[SnowGlobe7]

be safe boys and girls out there!!!!!! GOD BLESS THE USA!!!!

 

[SnowGlobe7]

Come get you some ISIS!!!! Mother humpers!!!!!!!

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[boosterbglee]

Sno...................you're making my nostrils flare! 

[SnowGlobe7]

these videos really get that patriot blood going!!!!!!!!

[rkpdwp]

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I spent my navy career on aircraft carriers working the catapults arresting,enjoyed every minute of it

 

[SnowGlobe7]

Hubby was Navy as well  

[yota691]

The destruction of communities and who became terrorists in Anbar and Mosul

 

 

4/23/2016 0:00  Post giant bombers (B 52) for the first time tostrike {Daash} in Iraq   BAGHDAD - Sabah  recorded sorties and bombing influential Iraqi Airways planes of the international coalition increased significantly during the past two days with the US military announced entry of the giant bombers (B 52) the war in Iraq against «Daash », and resulted in those sorties« destroy nests and hideouts, associations and Mvfajat tanks and units of tactical and facilities used by terrorists ».  , said US military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren: the« bombers bombed a target for »Daash» in Iraq in a raid is the first launched by bombers ».  as media reported cell - Harbi Ban »warplanes Iraqi managed bombed hideouts and gatherings for terrorists« Daash »several heavy rockets into the village of Bashir, which led to the explosion of the wheel bomb», while the statement by the Ministry of defense, said that « the military aviation heroes managed to DC and destroy caches, the wheels bomb in the western Chinese regions, and through the Baiji-Haditha in Salahuddin province.  For his part , the band 14 commander Brigadier General Abdul Mohsin Abbasi, in a press statement, said that « the security forces embarked on the completion of the restoration area« Alrovh »North on the vine» adding that « pieces of the band and supporting forces her, would take «Alrovh» springboard for future operations after the success in the liberation of many villages and strategic roads used by terrorist gangs in the transfer of arms, ammunition and supplies to Fallujah.