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Originally Posted by jaguar
Nothing sweeter than selling planes capable of carrying nukes to the supplier of nuclear tech to pratically every pariah regime which also happens to be a nuclear armed state that has encouraged islamic extremism for decades and is a dictatorship dangerously close to civil war. Oh and snubbing an increasingly important allay in the process setting back relations a few years.
Most fucking shortsighted politically myopic move I've seen in a while.
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You know, I didn't think the F-16 could mount nuclear weapons on it's hardpoints when I read your post until I checked here .
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The F-16 has six underwing hardpoints and one under-fuselage hardpoint for the carriage of fuel tanks or weapons. A huge variety of weapons can be carried, including air-to-surface missiles, "smart" bombs, conventional iron bombs, and even tactical nuclear weapons.
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