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Nah they gonna build a couple more tomohawk cruise missiles.
(IDK why but those missiles fascinate me, they are essentially tiny planes loaded with explosives, they even have actual wings.)
They arent even a cool missile. They arent an AIM 9 or a patriot.
They are seriously very smol planes that guide in to a GPS target and explode. A 747 Laden with explosives and the pilots replaced with a GPS guidance system would literally just make it a big.... tomohawk cruise missile.
(We also almost loaded 747s with rotary tomahawk cruise missile launchers. IIRC they could carry 72 missiles).
They are very cool missiles. I mean they’re no SM-6. But anything that you can strap swords to gets a +1 to cool factor for me. Plus I was a ddg sailor so all anyone cared about what we could do was tomahawk related.
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They discovered about 1,000 gold bars of 400 oz each
So that’s 800 bars x 400 oz = 320k oz
At $375 / oz in 2003 Those 600 gold bars are worth $90m
The average penthouse in Manhattan sold for ~ $18 mil
So with the 400 gold bars they found, the US military could have bought 2-3 average penthouses
😂
Or pay for 2-3 hours of OIF.
They are not Gold bars but copper melted down from ammunition.
All Bars That Glitter In Iraq Are Not Gold
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/02/world/all-bars-that-glitter-in-iraq-are-not-gold.html
Oh 🤑… ok thank I for the math. I wondered where those gold became after that picture 😅
They got shipped right back to the Iraqi treasury.
Or about $1.4 billion in gold in today's dollars. Amazing
We Three Kings be Stealing Your Gold.
90/18 = 2 to 3? Math is mathing..
Nah they gonna build a couple more tomohawk cruise missiles.
(IDK why but those missiles fascinate me, they are essentially tiny planes loaded with explosives, they even have actual wings.)
They arent even a cool missile. They arent an AIM 9 or a patriot.
They are seriously very smol planes that guide in to a GPS target and explode. A 747 Laden with explosives and the pilots replaced with a GPS guidance system would literally just make it a big.... tomohawk cruise missile.
(We also almost loaded 747s with rotary tomahawk cruise missile launchers. IIRC they could carry 72 missiles).
Look into rapid dragon if you haven't. Spits out up to 45 jassm from the end of a C17.
They are very cool missiles. I mean they’re no SM-6. But anything that you can strap swords to gets a +1 to cool factor for me. Plus I was a ddg sailor so all anyone cared about what we could do was tomahawk related.