Today---they are diploid to the vicinity of Iran.
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Today---they are diploid to the vicinity of Iran.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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I mean actively dropping ordinance, not just as a scare tactic.
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Iraq...They were deployed out of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean...There were so many there, one had to take off before there was room for another to land...Originally Posted by Phillbo
...Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Right you areIraq...They were deployed out of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean...There were so many there, one had to take off before there was room for another to land...
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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I.V. probably could tell us about this, if he is allowed to speak of it.
SOURCEB-52 strikes were an important part of Operation Desert Storm. Starting on 16 January 1991, a flight of B-52Gs flew from Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, refueled in the air en route, struck targets in Iraq, and returned home – a journey of 35 hours and 14,000 miles (23,000 km) round trip. It set a record for longest-distance combat mission, breaking the record previously held by an RAF Vulcan bomber in 1982; however, this was achieved using forward refueling.[191][192] Those seven B-52s flew the first combat sorties of Operation Desert Storm, firing 35 AGM-86C CALCMs standoff missiles and successfully destroying 85–95 percent of their targets
I remember building a B-52 model as a kid. I was probably around 10 years old then.
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I could tell ya but then I'd be shot. NOT TRUE.... I retired in 89 and the sand war I know very little about.
I do know that 52s were used then but I have no knowledge [ I should stop here ] of how they were employed.
There are currently 52s deployed to areas where there are very high temps and lots of glass manufacturing materials .
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