USA: We put six nukes on a plane by accident
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haha dont check there sources? what about the spanish photographer making the queen go off in a tiff? that was complete nonsense. Didnt check there sources there did they?
maybe not a serious, but a prime example of what the bbc will do, getting as bad as sky news or ch5 tbh
Granted that is an example but can you think of another, because I can't.
Plus the BBC revoked the story and made an apology within a couple hours.
How would they go bang? They weren't even armed. As for leaking, that involves a very outside chance of the plane crashing in a way that dages the missiles, which in event of a problem can be jettionsoed and crash safely to Earth from quite a high altitude.
It's North Dakota airspace, ergo it's inside the US and is their airspace!
Pre-flight walk around is done way before the weapons are attached, plus how would the pilot be able to distinguish between a nuclear tipped missile and the ones that he was probably meant to be carrying.
What?
Sauce please, or do you know something that wasn't reported for a reason?
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How would they go bang? They weren't even armed. As for leaking, that involves a very outside chance of the plane crashing in a way that dages the missiles, which in event of a problem can be jettionsoed and crash safely to Earth from quite a high altitude.
Sauce please, or do you know something that wasn't reported for a reason?
How could they get on the plane to begin with? How can america keep claiming more friendly kills than the rest of the world's armed forces?
if the pilot didnt know what he was carrying how could he jettison them?!!
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well they wouldnt miss their target
just put a big british flag on it to be sure though
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Sounds about right, they are more likely to shoot themselves in the foot then ever usefull deploy these weapons
The media obviously wants people to have nuclear weapons fresh on their mind the whole time, im also not completely buying that this actually happened, and 6 nuclear weapons dont get boarded on planes and flown across the USA by accident, it dosent happen.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/05/loose.nukes/index.html
yup its a lie, cnn are in the lie with the bbc
Shepperd said the U.S. had agreed in a Cold War-era treaty not to fly nuclear weapons. "It appears that what happened was this treaty agreement was violated," he said.
that bits the interesting bit and does this mean the treaty is invalidated...
might start seeing some of those russians at it
yup its a lie, cnn are in the lie with the bbc
Shepperd said the U.S. had agreed in a Cold War-era treaty not to fly nuclear weapons. "It appears that what happened was this treaty agreement was violated," he said.
that bits the interesting bit and does this mean the treaty is invalidated...
might start seeing some of those russians at it
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How could they get on the plane to begin with? How can america keep claiming more friendly kills than the rest of the world's armed forces?
if the pilot didnt know what he was carrying how could he jettison them?!!
We are of course lacking a lot of information of this but I would suspect that an incorrect order or a misunderstood order. I would question if the ground crew would even know it's a live nuke. I expect they took the ordinance and attached it to the airframe as ordered.
As for blue on blue that is a more complex issue than the media reporting would suggest. You need to remember that the USAF is providing a huge percentage of Close Air Support and therefore would be more likely to have a blue on blue incident.
You also need to consider the lack of equipment the British Army has. They don't have IFF friend or foe equipment and very rarely have the equipment that allows them to see the targeting information from the targeting pod.
I do concede that some members of the US Air National Guard are gung-ho and are itching for some "action" but don't tar all the pilots in the USAF with the same brush. It's also very concerning that there has been a break down in protocol and communications but it wasn't that long ago that the USAF were routinely flying B-52s around the clock armed with live nuclear weapons (some of those did crash as well, including at least two weapons not being recovered!). We have come some way from then.
If you want to worry about Nuclear weapons I'd suggest you start to read the recent speeches of President Hugo Chavez.
To implement an opinion they want you to have?
The USAF wants me to think the USAF is incompetent? why?
Who knows. Why not.
The opinion may be held by people in military positions in countries they are soon to invade (Seria/Iran) which gives them an advantage to a point.
Maybe there's a deeper ulterior motive. It's not a bad thing to question what you are told. Human nature > Blind Acceptance
The opinion may be held by people in military positions in countries they are soon to invade (Seria/Iran) which gives them an advantage to a point.
Maybe there's a deeper ulterior motive. It's not a bad thing to question what you are told. Human nature > Blind Acceptance
Of course they do! Maybe not all, but yes some do
And even earlier than that....
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