Published On: Mar 20, 2011
Last updated on:: Mar 20, 2011
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Storm shadow
It may seem like a glamorous name for the latest sports car on show at the Paris motor show but don’t be fooled by the sleek name.
This little contraption really does kick up a storm and does 0-60 in record time; in fact this is the name of one of the missiles dropped on Libya by British military war planes to destroy key military installations.
It was even shown on TV how these missiles did there job of destroying what we were to believe was Libyan military bases. Shown from the RAF Tornados pictures during pre-dawn raids last night it seems easy to accept that the glow over the target was a missile costing hundreds of thousands of pounds going off within feet of its target.
It all seems terrifying to know what just one of these missiles is capable of doing and what destruction it has caused.
I seem to be brain-washed into thinking that dropping 50 or more of these deadly missiles is all in a days work in the life of an RAF bomber.
Well just have a think into what is really going on and what it is costing? No expense spared here!
It was also reported that 112 tomahawk missiles were dropped on key targets over Libya.
I’m supposed to accept and believe that these bombing raids are for a good reason.
Do you know how much each of these tomahawk missiles cost?
Well they don’t come cheap, they are not readily available off the shelf or you certainly cannot get a buy 2 get the 3rd free deal to encourage you to use more!
I understand that they are in the region of over $600,000 each and you have to deliver them yourself. Preferably in a stealth bomber costing millions of dollars flown all the way from mainland USA. How ironic to think that the fuel to power any of these aircraft could have come from Libyan oil fields?
My point is these military raids by French, US and British aircraft are at a very high cost to the tax-payer and the main interest for all concerned is OIL.
I cannot imagine the complexity of the plight of the Libyan people nor do I understand the recent struggle in neighbouring countries but a solution could be found without the enormous cost or the loss of human lives.
Go do your home-work before you are led to believe all that is reported about what is going on in the Mediterranean areas of Libya.
Human life is cheap compared to the vast amount of oil that surrounds this power-struggle.
God bless you all.