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US Air Force Running Out Of Bombs To Drop On ISIS
Things must be going well in the "war on terror," as the US Air Force just admitted that it is fast running out of bombs to drop on ISIS after "B-1s have dropped bombs in record numbers." As ZeeNews reports, Air Force chief of staff General Mark Welsh said as America ramps up its military campaign against the Islamist terror group, the Air Force is now "expending munitions faster than we can replenish them."
The US Air Force is fast running out of bombs to drop on ISIS targets in Syria and Iraq after its pilots fired off over 20,000 missiles and bombs since the US bombing campaign against the terror group began 15 months ago, its chief has said. As ZeeNews reports,
"B-1s have dropped bombs in record numbers. F-15Es are in the fight because they are able to employ a wide range of weapons and do so with great flexibility. We need the funding in place to ensure we're prepared for the long fight," Welsh said in the statement.
"This is a critical need," he said.
The bombing campaign has left the US Air Force with what an Air Force official described as munitions depot stocks "below our desired objective."
The Air Force has requested additional funding for Hellfire missiles and is developing plans to ramp up weapons production to replenish its stocks more quickly. But replenishing that stock can take "up to four years from time of expenditure to asset resupply," the official told CNN.
"The precision today's wars requires demands the right equipment and capability to achieve desired effects. We need to ensure the necessary funding is in place to not only execute today's wars, but also tomorrow's challenges," the official said.
As The Washington Times concludes, Russia has been bombing ISIS positions sporadically while France and Great Britain are now active in the American-led coalition which could relieve some pressure.
Much larger potential adversaries like Russia or China most surely are following this development carefully. If the USAF cannot sustain a trickling battle against a poorly armed, medieval enemy, fighting a superpower military is obviously beyond its capability.
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Too bad that little purple lipped fuck in the White Castle gave Iran that 150 billion dollars - sure could have used it on ISIS
But then again - he never liked the idea of bombing his brethren
What a waste of sperm that little bastrd is.........
Sperm? I think it had more to do with rolling of the bones, eye of newt, anus of whatever...
Time for Russia to steam roll Europe
Oh come on! There you go, letting the cat out of the bag, spoiling the surprise for everyone.
Russia has no intention of steam-rolling over Europe. They have every intention of creating a Euro-Asian trade block. Why go to war when your opponent is broke? They will have peace in Europe and it will be wall to wall war in the US.
We live in hope; however the US does have a remarkable talent for fubaring things like that up.
Why not buy some cheap bombs from China?
I mean what the fuck we buy everything else from them..............
Bullish!!
what does this imply for silver again?
Made in China will be stamped on all the bombs.washington's politicians sold out America to Commies.
Whores, whining to their pimp.
Just as planned. Obama will have are military waving the rainbow flag crossing the border. What has happened to our military? You swore the oath to protect this country. This Kenyan nigger in the White House is a fraud. You can restore this country under the Constitutional Laws. Why are you allowing this to happen? This guy is a disaster.
Take our country back. We are all that is left to set example of a misaligned marxists agenda. Get to work. We love you guy's. Start shooting and ask questions later.
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Atomizer:
I wish there were more of us. The over educated idiots (low grade morons) are in control and we are helpless.
Often times, I'll explode on a topic. More often, try to use humor. Not always successful, ask me if I care.
Thanks for post response. Getting old makes you wise.
Disappointing faggot wants to bomb ISIS now after helping them spread themselves out and "accidental" weapons drops one after another.
Does anyone take this shitbag seriously anymore?
I read on a defense site a while back Bath House was not replenishing cruise missiles, so maybe he ordered production halts to other munitions as well.
Looks like he wants us in a War with no Ammo.
The Master Plan?
The US is running out of bombs to drop on ISIS, so they are dropping them on the SAA instead.
http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2015/12/07/russland-befreit-s...
aren't all the camels dead yet?
Unless Obama fucked them, nope!
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Yeah, right.
Shoot all you want! LockheedMartin will make more!
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/us-hellfire-missile-orders-fy-2011-2...
88500 tons of bombs dropped in PGW I over about 8wk period. At avg weight of 750lbs per bomb
that amnts to 236 THOUSAND bombs dropped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_air_campaign
And you think that 20 THOUSAND bombs is a strain on resources?! bwahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha
Soundsl ike LMT is going nowhere but up!
Are there special bombs needed for hospitals??
If you are referring to ACA (ObamaCare) and Unitedhealthcare. The bomb has been dropped.
Well I guess it would be a bad time for WWW111 now wouldnt it? NO bombs left? We are being had, this country is fucking full of suckers...They are going for broke with everything they do. The powers that are running this Country are running it right into the ground.
I think they're running it 'left' into the ground.
From the 13th Valley by Del Vecchio, actual after action report in Vietnam war
So what makes the bombing worth it?
One man of military age per $100K worth of bombs? $200K? $500K?
Cost is socialized, nobody gives a shit if it costs ONE MILLION DOLLARS PER DEATH, right!!!
You got to love the American taxpayers, biggest suckers on the planet.
Bum some off the Russians like Obama does for manned flights to space these days.
The government is operated like Detroit ,Mi these days.
"...the Air Force is now "expending munitions faster than we can replenish them." Yes, they can always print money faster than they can build bombs.
as a tax payer this really pisses me off.
so you meant to tell me that they have dropped so much ordnance that they are running out..
and yet ISIS came off with nary a scratch for over a year, right up until Moscow arrived and jumped into the pool.
which leads me to the question...WTF have they been bombing for this past year?
seriously, how many bombs can you expend on empty buildings, deserted roads and bridges to nowhere?
I want my money back.
Sounds like Vietnam all over again. They practically flatened the country with bombs and still lost. Looks like they lost Iraq too despite years of bombing. It's great for munition suppliers though.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-AiuLMalZ40
Please watch above. We covered this topic many times on Zerohedge.
McPsycho will be pleased. That empty desert must be taking an almightly pounding.
Keep up the great effort you morons as your bombing is the only thing adding to USSA GDP growth at this point. Your comrades at the Ministry of Peace thank you.
Elementary mistake - spend most of your resources on hardware (planes, aircraft carriers, tanks etc.) and skimp or ignore consumables (bombs, ammo).
"Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics."
- Gen. Robert H. Barrow, USMC (Commandant of the Marine Corps) noted in 1980
If this quote holds, then what does it imply about the upper echelons of the USA military?
For a thought-provoking set of logistics quotes:
http://www.military-quotes.com/forum/logistics-quotes-t511.html
Send them a 3d printer and link to a bomb making .stl file from the interwebs.
Much larger potential adversaries like Russia or China most surely are following this development carefully. If the USAF cannot sustain a trickling battle against a poorly armed, medieval enemy, fighting a superpower military is obviously beyond its capability.
But there are still plenty of nukes for the big boys...
Obviously we need a more cost effective way to demolish stuff...not sure why amateurs need to show the air force another way to go about this...
1. identify targets which need to be taken out and which are low risk
2. fly in special ops and surround target
3. helicopter in a bulldozer and demolish target
4. extract equipment and forces
Only use bombers for high value high risk targets.
I know...I know...I should probably be working for a pentagon think group and make the big bucks. But my patriotism overrides my greed for money.
no more bombs left? no more desert left?
propaganda to fool the fools that the US means business with their ISIS mercenaries
“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”But then, the US is dropping bombs on their real target, Syrians, but they deny that.
They sold them all to ISIS, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, and Turkey to stimulate the economy.
Why don't we just start duct taping government cunts up (CIA, ATF, FBI, DHS, all of Washington, etc) and dropping them on ISIS?
What would Vlad do? Putin in 2016...
There can't be a bomb QE
So therefore they may consider printing money & air dropping it
Hah ha
Government Excuse for Failure #1: We need more money, equipment, and personnel.
They already 'spend' 600 billion dollars, you'd think the MIC pukes would budget for bombs or something...
If you ask me -- and no one has -- this is what I think is going on.
Putin has made it perfectly clear he believes Assad is the legimate authority in Syria. And as its president, his approval is necessary to fly in Syrian skies.
After the Russian jet was shot down and two Russian servicemen were killed in action, Russia brought in an undisclosed number of S-400s.
Now this is what I conjectured:
Russia has declared a de facto no-fly zone. And to fly in it, this is how it works;
The SAA can not be targeted. Only established ISIS bases, control centers, and locations. The coalition, which now includes aircraft from France, England, Germany, Netherlands, etc., must inform Russia on the days of their sorties, how many planes they are sending up and what they have targeted.
Russia gladly receives this information, silently gives the the squadron its blessing, and follows the progress of the coalitions' planes on their radar, just to be on the safe side. The coalition members goes where they says they are going and bomb what they says they are going to bomb.
All the air forces in the coalition follow this procedure. All except the US air force. Never in their existence have they been required to submit to the authority of another air force.
The Russians enforce Syria's de facto no-fly zone by threatening those, who fly over western Syria without informing the Russians their plans, that Russia will send up as many jets as necessary (including Syrian planes) to accompany the US squadrons, intercept style.
NEEDLESS TO SAY, THE UNCOUNTED BATTERIES OF S-400S WILL HAVE TO BE RECKONED WITH IF THE US FLY BOYS GET TOO FRISKY
Both informing the Russians of their flight plans or being accompanied by a Russian escort is too humiliating for the Pentagon to endure
SO, MIRABILE VISU, THE US AIR FORCE HAS RUN OUT OF BOMBS.
NO BOMBS, NO NEED TO PUT UP WITH THE INDIGNITY OF THE RUSSIAN NO FLY DICTUM
Interesting theory bid.
But I believe that US coalition forces and Russia already exchange flight mission data with each other. This was not so much because of a recent Russian S-400 no-fly zone being imposed but to avoid any accidents. S-400s reinforce the agreement from the Russian side.
If Russia had imposed a de facto no-fly zone across Syria it's difficult to see how they would have allowed all and sundry to join the party: UK, NL & other M/E countries. All of which are now looking for targets to bomb and sometimes end up bombing the same sand pits.
One other consequence of this is that ISIS doesn't look like it's been degraded by the 80% claimed by some people and oil truck convoys continue from Syria to Turkey. Perhaps they're using the wrong ornance.
My theory is that coalition members inform Russia when they are going up and where they are going. 4 days ago France went up and Russia congratulated them when they came back. England went up two days ago and we heard no complaints from Russia..
When the US went up against Deir ez Zor, Sunday they most likely did not inform the Russians of their plans, only telling them that they would be flying in a certain area.
Whether or not the Russians intercepted those US planes and flew along with them, you and I will never know. I maintain they did and the Russians considered that the US infracted their de facto no-fly zone. The penalty for which was this:
A 'false flag' or should I say 'make-believe' attack on a SAA base near Deir ez Zor.
Did you see any pictures of the camp after the attack? Were they dated? Did they have unmistakable Deir ez Zor landmarks to authenticate their veracity? Or were they the same false evidence that NATO posts after they accuse Russia of some violation?
Are you sure that a Syrian army base near Deir ez Zor even existed?
Thus Putin punished the Pentagon with this 'false flag' like the ones Washington pulls on Russia and her allies so often. Except this 'false flag' had no casualties. No serin attack killing a thousand Syrians blamed on Russia's ally, Assad. No downed Malaysian jet killing 300 blamed on Russia and her allies in Donbas.
Now the shoe is on the other foot. After all these years the Pentagon is yelping, "It wasn't us. We didn't do it. The Russians did it."
So smacker, in my humble opinion, the attack against the Syrian base was entirely fictitious. To embarrass the US for refusing to abide by the de facto no-fly zone.
And, while it gets no play in the US, from the blankones and alphahammers, it is reinforcing the anti-US feeling in the the citizens of the NATO countries.
Its expensive bombing empty desert while trying to look like you bomb your own terrorists.
Once again, thanks, Obola!