Thread: Obama an Appeaser? How Dare You!?
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Old 05-20-2008, 08:14 PM   #87
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Originally Posted by chumdawg
Man the battlestations!
I didn't know we had 30,000 lb bunker busters...

most of the bombs dropped during "Shock and Awe" were in the range of 2.5K to 10K lb bombs and were dropped/shot from fighter jets.

If the article is correct, we're talking much bigger bombs carried by much bigger and slower bombers...
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