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September 6th, 2007
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| Forums Grumpy Old Man |  Post; Air Force B-52 carries armed Nucs by mistake ...B-52 carried nuclear armed cruise missiles by mistake: US  Excerpt:WASHINGTON (AFP) — A B-52 bomber flew the length of the United States last week loaded with six nuclear-armed cruise missiles in a major security breach, US military officials said Wednesday. The lapse was reported to President George W. Bush after the nuclear warheads were discovered when the aircraft landed at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, a military official said on condition of anonymity. Read the rest of the article at the url below. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5...5v9Xi6M5zdr9IA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As the United States carries on a discussion as to how much Homeland Security is too much, the Air Force seems to have forgotten basic Nuclear Weapons Security ... they carried out a FUBAR operation when they transported live Nuclear Weapons over much of the Continental United States thus violating a veritable library of military instructions and SOPs when dealing with live Nuclear Warshots. What do you think? Has the Air Force lost it? ... has all of the upheaval caused by Homeland Security and the total involvement with the Iraqi War completely derailed the normal security procedures that govern all aspects of the storage/transportation/usage of Nuclear First Strike Warshots? There is absolutely NO WAY you can mistake a Nuclear Warshot for a practice BDU/Dummy Round IF you even use the slightest bit of common sense examination of the weapons as they are being unpacked from their packing cases and loaded onto a B-52 (or) any other plane capable of carrying them in a bomb bay or on a wing pylon. I speak from experience and training ... someone really screwed the pooch on this one.
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September 6th, 2007
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| Can you hear me now?  | I've heard about it. Not good. Very inexuseable for the crews and pilots. We all makes mistake. But this one, that's FUBAR, yeah.
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September 6th, 2007
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| Fridgeraider (Instructor) | Something's real fishy about this one.
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September 6th, 2007
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| Chief Engineer  |  Quote:
Yeah, it stinks to high heaven! Somebody screwed up bigtime! Heads should roll!
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September 6th, 2007
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| Centurion | Senior Chief, I think the title of the thread is misleading. The article you linked to doesnt say ARMED nukes, it says nuclear armed cruise missiles.
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September 6th, 2007
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| Banned  | They were obsolete nuclear bombs.... |
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September 6th, 2007
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| Chief Engineer | Quote:
Obsolete bombs can still go BANG!! The munitions squadron commander was canned over this. | |
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September 6th, 2007
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September 6th, 2007
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| Banned | Quote:
unless they fell off, or the plane crashed which has happened in the past....they have these rules for a reason P80 | |
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September 6th, 2007
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| Milforum's Bouncer | There seems to be a lot of misinformation on this one. The Cold War had hundreds of near misses like this one. Now I have to ask, are B-52s not allowed to carry Nukes or is it that they may have been ARMED. If they were not ARMED I don't understand the furor and various sources are saying they were and others don't mention it and I suspect most of the hoopleheads writing the stories don't know the difference.
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