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I wrote: All depends

What I didn't know is since then confirmed:
(Reuters - 21 Sept) - The United States plans to sell Israel $319 million worth of air-launched bombs, including 500 "bunker busters" able to penetrate Iran's underground nuclear facilities, Israeli security sources said on Tuesday.
The Haaretz newspaper quoted a Pentagon report as saying the planned procurement sought "to maintain Israel's qualitative advantage and advance U.S. strategic and tactical interests."

The U.S. embassy in Israel had no comment, referring queries to Washington. Israel's Defense Ministry also declined comment.

But a senior Israeli security source who confirmed the Haaretz story told Reuters: "This is not the sort of ordnance needed for the Palestinian front. Bunker busters could serve Israel against Iran, or possibly Syria."
Haaretz quoted Israeli government sources as saying the sale, including 4,500 other guided munitions ,rpt 4500, was not expected to go through until after the U.S. elections in November.
Earlier this month, Haaretz said Israel sought to obtain the U.S.-made, one-ton "bunker buster" bombs for a possible future strike against arch-foe Iran's atomic development program, which Israel considers a strategic threat.

The new massive arms sale of 'bunker busting' bombs to Israel has two major purposes at this point in addition to furthering the Bush/Cheney election campaign -- to prepare for real war with Iran sooner rather than later, while at the same time attempting to further intimidate one more time those in Tehran to 'comply, resistance is futile'.


Q: What aircraft Israel Airforce has to convey this ordnance of air-launched bombs?

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They´ll probably get some gift-wrapped B-2´s to go with the bombs...

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levent wrote:They´ll probably get some gift-wrapped B-2´s to go with the bombs...
Buy one, get two?

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Paeng mak mak, Fons, paeng mak mak! :-)

Israel is the US´ best buddy. Iran obviously is on GWB´s list of next-to-be targets, this way he´ll let Israel do the job for him. In other words: the next war is being prepared while the current one isn´t finished yet...

PS: talking about abbreviations. GWB = George W. Bush, president of the United States.

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Back to the point...

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levent wrote:Paeng mak mak, Fons, paeng mak mak! :-) In other words: the next war is being prepared while the current one isn´t finished yet....
As my brother said eating belgians chocolates: One in the mouth, one in the hand, and one in the eye...
Nung nai paak, nung nai meu, nung nai taa... And 'belgian chocolates', can not be translated, can only be imitated.
But talking of wars, this is what it looks like: first they dig a hole, than an other to fill it up, then a third one to fill the second hole, and finally nobody knows why it really started, but some people are making big money...
That's how you create an industry, and that's why that industry is supporting a candidate for president. To get support the candidate has to promise more business. And more business is war.
Who is cheating who in this wargame? This works only with americans I guess, until they understand that it is the people of the US who will have to foot the bill, because by then the money the industry has made, will have gone to the owners pockets and that of the politicians.

But since this an aviation website, not a language course nor a critical or analytic economy expose :wink:, I come back to my question: :?: !
Q: What aircraft Israel Airforce has to convey this ordnance of air-launched bombs?

Note: Paeng mak mak means Very expensive

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