A B-1 during a test of the Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missiles (JASSM).
Posted on 09/10/2010 8:03:25 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
A B-1 during a test of the Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missiles (JASSM).
To all or radical Muslim friends take note of this and quake in fear. It has been nine years since the 9/11 attacks. Never forget, never forgive the War continues.
I think this info was put out for the benefit of the chinese and other potential adversaries.
This means, I reckon, that a squadron of B-1B Lancers, similarly armed, could ruin a pretty large target?
The Muzzies and the Chinese need to be scared of us. Not the other way around.
Good post. Good message.
Not that Zero has any intention of actually using this.....
Next stop ....... Iran??
Kudos to you for posting this, from the home of the B-1.
/sarc
Wasn’t the B-1 super-sonic in its original incarnation?
Maybe for cleanup or advance operations to clear the radar traps. The big stick is yet to be tested as of my knowledge where they can deploy 5000 pounder bunker busters and in one case the newest MOAB.
But as from this article it can carry 24 1000 pound cruisers so one would be logically assume it could carry 5 or 6 of the super bunker busters. Imagine 5 or 6 of these being deployed in a cascading sequence at ther same target point.
/johnny
Roger that, thanks.
The JASSM weighs over 2,000 lbs.
Agreed. The warhead is a 1K explosives package. Add that the the propulsion, yadda, yadda, yadda and you get my point of easily 5 to 6 of the super busters. The most constrigent issue here is more of space and not weight I would assume.
And so the USAF releases a press statement lauding the ability of ONE aircraft being able to take off and fly ONE (training) mission over the Gulf of Mexico fully loaded with 24 missiles by ONE crew at ONE base?
Now, a press release for a 1000 plane mission over Europe, each plane being fully fueled, fully armed with several rounds of machine gun ammo, and fully loaded with 20 bombs and taking off without collisions or explosions from 15 different airbases on a single morning ....
But we can’t do that any more.
[I fully grant that the many thousand “dumb” bombs dropped with heroic efforts near north Vietnamese bridges were less effective than one or two smart weapons dropped from one stealth plane flying only one mission; but still, consider what this press release really means.)
Now if the Pentagon would just get their head out of their a$$es and make a B-1 Air to Air missile truck that could have fire control by the F-22 and F-35.
Yes.
The AF is a fine alternative to Military Service.
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