U.S. Preparations Peak: Conscription Reinstated – 30 B-52s Re-Equipped With Nukes And SM-6s on F-18s
- U.S. Preparations Peak: Conscription Reinstated – 30 B-52s Re-Equipped With Nukes And SM-6s on F-18s
by https://warnews247.gr/
NORAD orders major air defense exercise in Washington
It appears to be the Cold War at its peak – which is trending very hot – as the Americans respond to Russian nuclear threats by re-nuking their B-52 strategic bombers.
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Congress is currently considering passing a bill for fiscal year 2025 (starts Oct. 1, 2024) that would equip about three dozen B-52s with “special munitions,” meaning nuclear weapons. With the signing of the START III nuclear treaty, which was signed in April 2010 and entered into force in February 2011, the B-52s no longer carried nuclear missiles, only conventional ones. However, with Russia’s suspension of the treaty in February 2023, the US and Russia re-entered, undisturbed by legal frameworks, a new nuclear arms race.
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But there are also those who oppose the re-equipment of the B-52s with nuclear weapons, for obvious reasons, which have to do with the expected operational service of the B-52s, since they intend to keep them for quite some time.
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Also, the funds that will be spent on rearmament, they prefer to spend them on new programs like that of the new B-21 Raider bomber. However, the House of Representatives has already approved the initiative with the Senate Armament Committee giving the green light in turn.
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