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Crimson1st 
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| re: Iran fires on US drone (Posted on 11/8/12 at 3:06 pm to BTHog)
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PS - The chances that an Iranian Air Force jet is used to transport a nuclear weapon into the US are less than nil.
I agree however I am referring primarily to a dirty bomb that could be smuggled sans aircraft.
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Summer of George 
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| re: Iran fires on US drone (Posted on 11/8/12 at 3:06 pm to Crimson1st)
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How in the Hell are you going to need ANY airpower to sneak a dirty bomb into the USA once you have the raw material?
This.
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Count Chocula
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Member since Feb 2009
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| re: Iran fires on US drone (Posted on 11/8/12 at 3:06 pm to BTHog)
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Nothing else, just a few drones.
Truth be known, had that drone been armed with air to air such as AIM/Sidewinder, both those SU25's would be toast.
This post was edited on 11/8 at 3:08 pm
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WildTchoupitoulas
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| re: Iran fires on US drone (Posted on 11/8/12 at 3:08 pm to a want)
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And I'm digging the payload. What do they have that baby armed with? Is that a spare gas tank.
Dude, you can't escape all the way Russia without a drop tank.
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Phil A Sheo
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| re: Iran fires on US drone (Posted on 11/8/12 at 3:11 pm to Count Chocula)
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Truth be known, had that drone been armed with air to air such as AIM/Sidewinder, both those SU25's would be toast.
That would have made for a interesting highlight real
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Blue Velvet 
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| re: Iran fires on US drone (Posted on 11/8/12 at 3:18 pm to Crimson1st)
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Someone with an education
Apparently notquote:
but we could have helped their "freedom fighters" out a couple of years ago however Obama chose not to help
Did you learn anything from Osama Bin Laden and Ronald Reagan?
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Siderophore
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| re: Iran fires on US drone (Posted on 11/8/12 at 3:18 pm to Blue Velvet)
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These third worlders are the people the GOP claims are so powerful that we must put sanctions on, halt their technology, kill their scientists, and therefore demand we must prevent any cuts to defense spending.
Are you forgetting that nuclear weapons are basically 40s technology?
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BTHog 
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| re: Iran fires on US drone (Posted on 11/8/12 at 3:28 pm to Siderophore)
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Are you forgetting that nuclear weapons are basically 40s technology?
no they aren't .
40s era weapons were atomic, not nuclear.
That aside, look at the miniaturization and shielding techniques that have been developed in the last 30 years alone. In the height of the cold war era a suitcase nuke being sneaked into the US was the stuff of spy novels. Today is a real possibility.
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Siderophore
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| re: Iran fires on US drone (Posted on 11/8/12 at 3:37 pm to BTHog)
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40s era weapons were atomic, not nuclear.
Incorrect.
Atomic weapons are not fission weapons where nuclear are fusion weapons.
Nuclear weapons cover both fusion and fission weapons.
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In the height of the cold war era a suitcase nuke being sneaked into the US was the stuff of spy novels. Today is a real possibility.
That depends on what you mean by that.
"suitcase nuke" was shop talk for an ultra portable, not nesscessarily literally a nuke in a suitcase.
That is 80s tech.
The point is that nuclear weapons aren't exactly bleeding edge tech. And they aren't trying to make them with technology from those eras either.
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lsutothetop
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| re: Iran fires on US drone (Posted on 11/8/12 at 3:48 pm to Crimson1st)
Yeah and I guess Pakistan's just an anomaly - you know, the country that's had nukes for years and hated America at the same time but somehow has just magically not figured out how to get nuclear weapons into the US. 
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Count Chocula
Yale Fan
Member since Feb 2009
39264 posts
| re: Iran fires on US drone (Posted on 11/8/12 at 3:59 pm to Siderophore)
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Atomic weapons are not fission weapons where nuclear are fusion weapons.
Either way, the both make a loud BOOM 
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Kickadawgitfeelsgood
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| re: Iran fires on US drone (Posted on 11/8/12 at 4:11 pm to jamboybarry)
Anything like the knuckleheads on hotels in Baghdad shooting at fighters already over water miles away?
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bhtigerfan
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| re: Iran fires on US drone (Posted on 11/8/12 at 5:51 pm to Count Chocula)
How would you like to be one of those Su-25 pilots going up against our F-18s, F-16s, and F-15s?
Su-25s with poorly trained pilots, against the best fighter jets in the world, flown by the the most highly trained pilots, with the best tactics.
I think the odds are slightly in our favor.
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hawkster
Member since Aug 2010
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| re: Iran fires on US drone (Posted on 11/8/12 at 6:00 pm to jamboybarry)
You people shouldn't be joking. A hero of the American majority is shaking in fear at this news.
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Count Chocula
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| re: Iran fires on US drone (Posted on 11/8/12 at 6:03 pm to bhtigerfan)
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How would you like to be one of those Su-25 pilots going up against our F-18s, F-16s, and F-15s?
Not to mention the F22 and soon to be F35. Hell, even that drone could have shot down those '25s.
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Wolfhound45
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| re: Iran fires on US drone (Posted on 11/8/12 at 6:08 pm to Tiger4Ever)
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Must have been that damn YouTube video poking fun at Mohammed.
Exactly. Spontaneous.
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