There’s a lot of US hardware heading to the Gulf, where it will end, who knows!
F15, F16, F22 and F35s, and their tanker support.
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Shame they can’t do a little detour via the Donbas and give the Ukrainians a bit of a hand on the way.
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They are posted to diego at present.
Only a short flight to Iran. Well within range.
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Pretty sure the B2 is the only aircraft that can carry the USs massive bunker busters too, which would be a good option if they wanted to get the larger underground enrichment sites.
Supposedly the b52 can with modifications.
Might require internal load, released on a sled.
Sorry to interrupt, chaps, but where’s my fiver?
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Unless they are descending to land at an airfield (unlikely with a tanker) , no need to fly that low - that’s sending a message.
Separate news - an WC135 Constant Phoenix air sampling aircraft was also airborne today.
Used to have that as a secondary role on Vulcans.
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It’s certainly looking a bit spicy.
Born too late to fight and die in the middle east.
Born too early to fight and die in the middle east.
Born just in time to fight and die in the middle east.
Wonderful.
Getting ready to top up your tan?
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Didn’t that move onto the VC10 fleet?
Could be someone using a good telephoto lens and photoshop.
Trump’s posts certainly now confirming America is directly involved, if it wasn’t already clear. Saying “We” have air control. etc.
No one seems to have a clue what Trump’s next move is here, but his own State Department has said “he is the singular guiding hand about what will be occurring from this point forward”.
Given how much him and his MAGA guys loved to have a go at Biden for being a warmonger, Trump’s certainly not looking like the peaceful president he promised to me. (Which is not surprising)
The removal of Iranian nuclear weapons is the priority. You don’t just need missiles or aircraft to deliver them.
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All they need to do is surround the perimeter with some obviously placed but innocent looking objects. Ideally civilian electronics. Then no one will go in, and nothing will go out just in case.
Same pods that we had on Vulcans (think they were Sea Vixen drop tanks or similar), with an open frontage that had a big (paper??) filter to catch the sampled material.
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Sounding lot like WMD rhetoric of 25 years ago.
Netanyahu claimed Iran were months away in 2012, weeks away in 2015.
Are they perhaps not just distracting from what they’re doing in the other direction?
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The IAEA inspectors were pulled out and given the theocracy Iran the consequences of not acting don’t bear thinking about.
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Can’t even confirm it - the Domino’s Pizza tracker is down.
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Looks like a late pizza night to me.