Drudge Breaking: U.S. bombers practicing nuclear strike on North Korea

Can't we have planes flying around over by NK that can shoot down a missile on its way over here or what? Seems like that wouldn't be all that hard to put together. Just a few dozen planes in the air at all times ready to go shoot down missiles as they go up and over?

Or do you have to get em before they go up into space? It seems like they must have some way to stop them, they've had this long to come up with it.

Nick®

One does wonder if N.K. has not been quite in development LASER anti-missle tech that would equally be capable of taking down aircraft.. the USA most certainly has that capability as do several other nations now. LASER weapons make almost all obsolete (pre Stealth) vulnerable to LASER weapon strikes, and aircraft do not travel anywhere near as fast as boost stage or re-entry warheads' travel speeds. Also Aircraft as a rule are much bigger...

So, perhaps.. the B-52 is these days very much a sitting duck.. for any nation that has anti-aircraft LASER systems.. the ground based ones can have much more power than the airborne LASER weapons... its time to think the weapons of the 21st Century.. which have not really been revealed just yet.. they constantly say they are 'coming' in a few years, they have been saying that for decades.. who knows that these are not in fact fully deployed now.. and only spoke of or operated by those on a need to know basis, aka Top Secret clearnces.

Given the size of the typical 500Kt nuclear warhead or bomb.. a typical Predator Drone could carry at least one at any time.. a small single engine 'piper cub' type or even a hang glider could carry 5Kt worth of nuclear weapon these days.. . given the carrying load of a standard 757, one could potential carry at least six (or more) standard 500Kt nuclear warhead.. stop thinging the 1950s or 60s as to nuclear weapons.. modern ones are so much smaller and lighter.

Remember, B-29s, B-36s, B-47s, B-58s, and B-52 crews all practiced Atomic Bombing on the soil of the USSR as well as later on China and N.K. Gen MacArthur was trying to get Truman to give the go ahead to use the availble (then) nuclear bombs on N.K. during the 1950-53 Korean War.

Now that N.K. has announced it has called of the armistice or rather cease-fire, anything can happen and it is very smart to re-develope such nuclear forces in possible attacks against N.K.

Strangely we never heard of any USA plans for the carpet nuclear bombings of the U.K., nor France.. or Israle as if those would 'never' go to way against the USA.. and it would be equally as wise to have been doing that too along. Those that are 'friends' can quickly become enemies.

Why use the B-52s? Possibly as 'cannon fodder' as they are getting quite old in the scheme of things, better to go out in a blaze, perhaps... they are now very vulnerable to anti-aircraft ground based LASER weapons.

That would actually make a lot of sense, and explain why they act so cocky. They probably at least have bunkers for their troops. Before they launch, they'll all run down there and just kick it for a few months and we can't do nothing to them.

What if it's not suicide to launch a nuke at us? That's some scary shit kind of.

batman is quite disturbing think he needs robin to calm his impulses.

You think their starving country has enough food underground to not only feed their armies for months but then launch an invasion? And they're big enough to store all the heavy equipment they would need? Like tanks and artillery pieces?

AWWWsome,,,wait does this mean that mash will be back on primetime trash tv?

It will be live but still filmed in California.

Agreed. And if USA was silly enough to nuke, other nations would retaliate.

Hell, we paid for NK's military, lets take it.

Steve Herman ‏@W7VOA

#DPRK external propaganda site has new video showing White House & Capitol being attacked: youtube/DyapeCiOl9A

Steve Herman ‏@W7VOA

Text of Uriminzokkiri video: "White House is within sight of our long-range missiles & stronghold of war within range of an atomic bomb."




Last Edited by SpitDaddy on 03/18/2013 08:13 PM

Sheesh ... get real.

The US existed for a LONG time before all the modern conveniences ... and while a EMP could do some big short term damage it would NOT cause 80% of the US population to die, directly OR INDIRECTLY.

Your comments sound like those that some were bantering about prior to Y2k ... and is just as much an exageration as those comments were back then.

Actually reading it.....it was a training mission over South Korea

American aggression

Sounds like this movie: [link to www.imdb.com]

I did watch it and yes they mention a lot.
Not the greatest movie but interesting how it fits with this article.

I'd assume the B52s would release nuclear cruise missiles near the NK border. They don't need to enter the countries air space.

If retaliation is required, it gives an option that avoids ICBMs in the air. Its best not to risk Russia or China mistaking our ICBM launches for an attack. B52 launched cruise missiles avoid that danger.

Maybe the low tech fly by was just a slap to there face? Maybe using the high/secret tech would show that the NK is not really a threat? Nothing is as it seems.

you need to do some serious reading up on EMPs.
Y2K was a 'theorized' what-if scenario...
EMPs' effects are well-documented.
If we got hit, the after-effects are too far to list...and while the previously mentioned numbers DO seem a bit harsh....50-60 % depopulation would be a very likely scenario.
An EMP wouldn't just knock out most all electronics permanently, but also say bye bye to all cars made after the 60's...everyone with pacemakers, no running water after the gravity fed supplies from water towers are emptied...no food deliveries to markets...no medicine deliveries to pharmacies...no heat, no air conditioning....once the stores are mobbed and the canned food supply runs out, can you hunt for food and feed your family?

There ya go, the US wants NK to be the first one to push the button, that is the result ot the agenda at hand - coerced retalitation.

That's insane, no more NUKES - let's just get one of those force field domes from the Battleship movie and put it over NK - problem solved!

You've obviously have never had B-52's fly over your head... It makes little popcorn poops pop out into your underpants!

And the terrain-following cruise missiles are not subject to GPS hijacking/jamming. I'm more worried about devices hidden in shipping containers on the east/west coasts and Gulf ports being detonated at the same time. Probably during the next installment of "The Bible" if Obama has anything to say about it.

too risky

exotic tech is best used, during war when the enemy doesn't have the time to fully understand what's killing them.

Believe me in time

All that black project stuff we blew Billions on is just itchin to rise out of the fog.

I'll wager a guess and say that the use of the B-52 in this psyop is a deliberate reference to the bombing campaign 1950-1953. The US used B-52s to drop over 600,000 TONS of ordnance, including about 30,000 TONS of napalm, destroying 78 cities.

If you make a direct one to one comparison in RE to nuclear (i.e. the old "kilotons of TNT"), then that is the equivalent of about 40 Hiroshimas! Keep in mind also that with incendiary ordnance, the RE is higher. If you read the Strategic Bombing Survey, they quote the Hiroshima bomb being the equivalent of 1200 tons of incendiary, 400 tons of HE and about 200 tons of anti-personell ordnance. I take this to mean that standard incendiary ordnance (thermobaric, napalm, etc) has much higher RE that is not quoted elsewhere in literature, which makes sense since it uses the oxygen in the air instead of using a self contained oxidizer. RE for incendieary is about 8:1 (8 times more effective as TNT).
Anyway there are some conventional explosives they have now that have an RE that high, so god knows what the incendiary/thermobaric RE is for modern stuff (40-1 I heard).

Anwyay thats the long winded jist.

They were trying to provoke the North Koreans into shooting these relics down to make the case for war.

"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." ~ Henry Kissinger