• Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    IIRC, there’s nothing “strategic” (read: nuke-ready B-2s or B-52s) at Lajes Field, just some support craft like cargo planes and tankers. Not to say they couldn’t use it as a stop-over location for fighters or long-range bombers, but if ICBMs and Tridents are flying, it’s so far down the priority list that you’re probably not getting hit with a nuke when a conventional strike is enough to take out the runway.

    • grandepequeno [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      Good to know, among the left here the Lajes Field is mostly known as the place where Bush, Blair and our PM at the time Barroso (who later went on to head the EU comission and then to Goldman Sachs) declared war on Iraq