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Nuke-Lobbing
SlideGuitar writes "The following is a fascinating article about how the Navy in the 1950s, wanting to assure that it had a carrier based nuclear force, used A1 Skyraider (single engine propellor driven aircraft) to lob nuclear bombs using a manuever called the "goofy loop" (read the article.) The goofy loop put about seven miles between them and a Mark 7 nuclear device at detonation. The pilots knew that (1) they couldn't get far enough away to survive, and (2) if they did survive there probably wouldn't be a carrier to go back to anyway. There are lots of emails from pilots who did the manuever and what they thought about the whole business."
What a cool article about American suicide bombers! I love suicide bombers. There's something so daring, heroic and tragic about them, don't you think?
What a great guy. He sure must have a lot of guts to be prepared to strap himself into a weapon of mass destruction and hurtle himself at the enemy like that, knowing that he was unlikely to come back alive. How dashing! How adventurous!
To bad there aren't enough people like that in the world today, willing to throw their lives away for a cause they believe in.
Yes, I know, there will always be the lefty naysayers who will complain about "thousands of innocent civilians dead" but this is wartime! You have to expect civilians to be killed (and sometimes even targetted) by suicide troops in the struggle for a greater glory.
[Note for our American readers: Please don your sarcasm-glasses, switch on your ironometers and re-read this post]
You're not targeting Sevastopol but the military airfield on the mainland beyond, to take out the MiG-15s that would otherwise intercept the big bombers of the Strategic Air Command.
Ah that's alright then. It's a military target. He's going to kill the soldiers who would try to prevent our boys from murdering millions of civilians.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our American dead!
I dont see Palestinians as Terrorists. I see them as Freedom Fighters. Isreal is a brutal terrorist regime that slaughteres them with little conscience.
The world is not black and white, war and violence in Palestine/Isreal is not the "fault" of one *OR* the other... everyone needs to stop blaming and plead with our brothers to find peace.
American militarism (like ATTACKING foreign nations (not just iraq and afghanistan... and not just recently) is a VERY BIG ISSUE.
You cannot stick your head up and declare *YOUR* personally justified acts of Terror (like bombing, invading, etc etc) and decrying others for defending themselves... jesus man, wake the f' up.
if you are so concerned by "terrorists", stop; its called "Asymetric Warfare". American Revolutionaries were also TERRORISTS who defied the (then) conventions of modern warefare to undermine the enemy and make effective their miltiary efforts against a force that would (if they engaged them in the manner they wished) would have slaughtered them. Americans, in the War of 1812 killed Women and Children on a raid of York... we burnt down your Federal Capital in retaliation. Isreali Zionists bombed hotels and other 'civilian' targets to win a "Isreali Nation" (exactly what Palestine is doing now) Negroponte (your current UN Ambassador was a central figure in the Iran/Contra affair, where he used his power as a CIA director in Central America to arm, train and direct killing teams who slaughtered priests, villages, politicians, judges who were "enemies" of American Interests in C.America at the time (mostly those Evil Communists(tm)) Some nationas want to see Negroponte tried as a war criminal - I agree.
In short, its called Perspective and Subjectivity... please TRY and understand what is happening and drop the USA vs. Them simplicity.
The idea was the Neutron bomb could take out concentrated tank formations. Thus, it would force Soviet battle planners to adopt a more dispersed order of battle for armor. Since the Soviets had a big lopsided numerical advantage in armor that was a good thing for the US and NATO. For the most part, the Soviets propaganda machine was able to enlist the Left in the Western world to oppose neutron weapons, spinning it as neutron weapons were to kill inhabitants of cities. In the only bit of good the French did for NATO, they developed or claimed to develop neutron bombs. So, the Soviets would still have to plan for them, even after the US said they would not build them anymore.