"Operation Swarmer"

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they are bombing the hell out of people right now.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:03 (twenty years ago)

They're doing it for great justice, and all you can do is sit around and complain you communist.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Hahahahaha back in the day this was just called Operation Linebacker but I suppose football has changed a lot since then.

Good fuckin' luck, morons

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:10 (twenty years ago)

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― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Linebacker missions included the first widespread use of precision-guided munitions, the electro-optical guided bomb and the laser-guided bomb. In addition to interdicting the road and rail system of the North, Linebacker also systematically attacked their air defense network. The North Vietnamese Air Force, with approximately 200 interceptors, strongly contested the attacks throughout the campaign. The Navy, fighting primarily MiG-17s, enjoyed a 4:1 advantage in kill-to-loss ratio in May and June, after which the North Vietnamese rarely engaged them. The Air Force, opposed by MiG-21s and F-6s (the Chinese version of the MiG-19), experienced a virtual 1:1 ratio through the first three months of Linebacker. In August the introduction of real-time early warning systems reversed that trend to a favorable 4:1 for the remainder of the war.

Concurrently, negotiations were conducted in Paris between National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese leader Le Duc Tho in an effort to establish a framework under which the US could disengage from the war and still maintain military parity between North and South Vietnam.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Happy 3rd anniversary!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Let's distract from pending civil warfare by dropping millions and millions of dollars in munitions on uninhabited wasteland and crossing our fingers that Osama is, like, living underneath some of it, but not too far underneath, yeah, sounds like a plan

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

fuel-air bombs for all!

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

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