A B-52 Stratofortress, flown by Capt. Will Byers and Maj. Tom Aranda, prepares for refueling over Afghanistan during a close-air-support mission in this undated handout photo. (U.S. Air Force/Master Sgt. Lance Cheung via Reuters)
Task & Purpose/Reuters: Why the Air Force's aging fleet of Cold War bombers is the US's best hope against China
HONG KONG (Reuters) - On July 21, two U.S Air Force B-1B bombers took off from Guam and headed west over the Pacific Ocean to the hotly contested South China Sea. The sleek jets made a low-level pass over the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and its escorting fleet, which was exercising nearby in the Philippines Sea, according to images released by the U.S. military.
The operation was part of the Trump administration's intensifying challenge to China's ruling Communist Party and its sweeping territorial claims over one of the world's most important strategic waterways. While senior Trump officials launch diplomatic and rhetorical broadsides at Beijing, the U.S. Defense Department is turning to the firepower of its heavily armed, long-range bombers as it seeks to counter Beijing's bid to control the seas off the Chinese coast.
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WNU Editor: These bombers may be old but they can carry a massive arsenal of missiles. The Chinese should be concerned.
Can they bomb the shit out of the China Virus?
ReplyDeleteIt, not the current administration, is responsible for everything shitty in America at the moment.
I respectfully disagree. With or without the virus the Democrats and liberal NGO's had the riots planned.
ReplyDelete@ Anon 7:52 PM
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly what we hope you continue to believe until November 4. Go back to sheep. Oops, I meant sleep.