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>> and welcome back to "hannity." tonight we continue to follow the growing controversy how the obama administration is gifting some of our deadly military weapons to the radical regime in egypt as part of an aid package and to demonstrate how idiotic this this proposal is to give away 20 of our f-16's and 200 tanks to a country led by a 9-11 truther that refers to israelis as deden sent of apes and pigs, morsi, and we went to show how deadly the f-16 could be when in the wrong hands and here is a former u.s. fighter pilot. lt. colonel bruce bleakly. welcome to the program and thanks for being...

>> and welcome back to "hannity." tonight we continue to follow the growing controversy how the obama administration is gifting some of our deadly military weapons to the radical regime in egypt as part of an aid package and to demonstrate how idiotic this this proposal is to give away 20 of our f-16's and 200 tanks to a country led by a 9-11 truther that refers to israelis as deden sent of apes and pigs, morsi, and we went to show how deadly the f-16 could be when in the wrong hands and here is a former u.s. fighter pilot. lt. colonel bruce bleakly. welcome to the program and thanks for being...

Barton f-16 fighter. the airplane first flew in 1974 and been in the united states air force inventory for almost 35 years, it can fly twice the speed of sound, it can climb to 60,000 feet and extremely maneuverable which has made it a very successful aircraft in air to air combat over the years. it's equipped with an internally mounted 20 millimeter cannon, and this is the size of a 20 millimeter shell and can fire at the rate of 100 rounds per minute. in addition to being an effective air to air combat airplane the f-16 can deliver a knockout to a target on the ground and can carry a hefty l...

This is not new. i spoke to the first fighter pilot to fly in combat and she had this to say about the naysayers. >> the same arguments were being made back then that are being made now against this policy change that is happening in order to catch up with reality on the battlefield. and i know air combat is different from ground combat but they were making the same arguments back then, that women did not have the inch turns or the strength to be fighter pilots, and i had just completed the hawaii ironman triathlon, winning the division and beating most of the military men and they said i didn...

Many of these jobs. we spoke to the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat and she said that those who don't think that women are physically capable of being in combat are wrong. >> the same arguments were being made back then there are being made now against, you know, this policy change that is happening in order to catch up with reality on the battle field. and i know air combat is different from ground combat, but they were making the same arguments that women did not have the endurance or the strength to be fighter pilots and i had just completed the hawaii ironman triathlon, winning...