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Pictures To Make You Feel Warm And Fuzzy: Part II
Me ^ | 9/22/01 | Randy Lormand

Posted on 09/22/2001 11:01:55 AM PDT by lormand

Meet the B52 Stratofortress

This is the plane that made the Iraqis cower in fear. After the carpet bombing by our B52s, the Iraqi "soldiers" could not wait enough for the US ground forces to "liberate" them.

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Pictures To Make You Feel Warm And Fuzzy Part 1

B52 Stratofortress

The B-52H, with a weapons payload of more than 70,000 pounds, is capable of carrying the most diverse range of weapons of any combat aircraft.

The nuclear weapons capacity includes 12 AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles (ACMS), 20 AGM-86A Air Launched Cruise Missiles (ALCM) and 8 bombs. The conventional weapons payload is 8 AGM-84 Harpoon missiles, 4 AGM-142 Raptor missiles, 51 x 500 lb bombs, 30 x 1000 lb bombs, 20 AGM-86C Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missiles (CALCM), 12 Joint Stand Off Weapons (JSOW), 12 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) and 16 Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (WCMD). JDAM is due to enter service in 2001, WCMD and JSOW in 2002.

The B-52H can also deliver 51 x 500lb, 30 x 1000lb and 20 x 2000lb navy mines.


A rack of 6 ACMSs to be loaded internally.



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To: lormand
All this fire power will result in the following forcast coming true:


81 posted on 09/23/2001 10:00:48 AM PDT by jws3sticks
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To: lormand
Oh, and I almost forgot, they are active in larger numbers than you might think. I live in MO and when I was stationed at Ft Drum NY last year, the A-10s would have gunnery practice weekly at a range on post. Scared the hell out of newbies in my platoon when they heard that gun fire for the first time. :)
82 posted on 09/23/2001 10:56:37 AM PDT by thescourged1
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To: lormand
B-52s! Gee whiz, that's CHEATING! Special Ops, F-15s, A-10s, F-16s, F-18s, okay. But, using B-52s isn't fair at all.
83 posted on 09/24/2001 6:16:13 AM PDT by Skooz
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84 posted on 09/24/2001 1:51:53 PM PDT by KneelBeforeZod
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To: lormand
While it was very nice flying in the “Cadillac” of the BUFF fleet (B-52H) nothing could beat the “Dog.”

Prior to AC-130s I did a tour in the 5th Bomb Wing, 23rd Bomb Squadron, Crews E-18 and E-19 (‘72-75). During that time I did three Arc Light tours and counted myself lucky to do only three.

The D model was old, cranky, had a mind of itsown and would get you into serious trouble if you didn’t stay ahead of it. It could also carry bombs on 108 (?) hard points between the big belly mods and the external racks. Somewhere I have a photo of my pilot playing Quasimoto while I pull the pins on the externals. It was taken on Charlie Ramp at UT Airbase, Thailand the summer of ’73.

Excitement was dropping the whole load, armed!, in 1.5 seconds. It left one hel* of a “Buff Print”!

As for the real power of the BUFF – nothing beats the reports from our POWs when we first went North. Once they (our POWs) realized that the air raid was a Buff raid they knew that they would be going home shortly because no one could stand up to mass B-52 strikes. And, most importantly, so did their North Vietnamese guards!

85 posted on 09/27/2001 9:36:45 PM PDT by Nip (earedding@adisfwb.com)
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To: lormand
bump for some great pics
86 posted on 09/29/2001 5:37:39 PM PDT by fnord
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To: rockfish59
he retired from boeing after 29 years and worked in the wind tunnel. he passed away a couple years ago.

Old aerodynamic testers never die; they just stop passing wind.

87 posted on 09/29/2001 9:24:37 PM PDT by Erasmus
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To: Aaron_A

During the Vietnam War, the USAF used 10,000-lb. M121 bombs left over from World War II, to blast Helicopter Landing Zones (HLZ) in the dense undergrowth. As the supply of M121 bombs dwindled, the USAF developed the Bomb Live Unit-82/B (BLU-82/B) as a replacement. Weighing a total of 15,000 lbs., the BLU-82/B was essentially a large thin-walled tank (1/4-inch steel plate) filled with a 12,600-lb. "slurry" explosive mixture. The designers optimized this bomb to clear vegetation while creating little or no crater, and it cleared landing zones about 260 feet in daimeter - just right for helicopter operations. Since only cargo aircraft could carry them, C-130 crews delivered the BLU-82/B with normal parachute cargo extraction systems.

The BLU-82/B first saw use in Vietnam on Mach 23, 1970. Throughout the rest of the war, the USAF used them for tactical airlift operations called "Commando Vault." After the war, the BLU-82/B was used during the Mayaguez rescue in May 1975, but the remaining BLU-82s went into storage until the mid-1980s, when the Air Force Special Operations Command began using them in support of special operations. During Operation Desert Storm, MC-130E "Combat Talon" aircraft from the 8th Special Operations Squadron dropped 11 BLU-82/Bs, primarily for psychological effects.

88 posted on 09/29/2001 9:33:47 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: Erasmus
lol! i'll have to tell his son that!
89 posted on 09/29/2001 10:47:21 PM PDT by rockfish59
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To: paul544
my other brother (20 years in the navy) would like these!
90 posted on 09/29/2001 10:52:07 PM PDT by rockfish59
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To: lormand
The B52 is my favorite aircraft! They used to be stationed near me, and I would go to the base just to watch them fly through the skies. They are just sooo powerful looking and gave me chills everytime I saw one! Hope they get used again real soon!
Love these threads! Thanks!
91 posted on 09/29/2001 11:06:47 PM PDT by ladyinred
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To: lormand
More Pictures to Make You Feel Warm And Fuzzy.....

Pictures To Make You Feel Warm And Fuzzy: Part I

Pictures to Make You Feel Warm And Fuzzy Part III

92 posted on 10/01/2001 9:04:25 PM PDT by lormand
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To: lormand
bomb-p afghanistan? No

nuke-p afghanistan? Yes

93 posted on 10/01/2001 9:06:40 PM PDT by jae471
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To: Rome2000
Yup, those things really pack a wallop! They look like little nukes when they go off. Mushroom cloud and all.
94 posted on 10/01/2001 9:08:10 PM PDT by tx4guns
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To: lormand
Remember the movie from 1956 with Karl Malden, Natalie Wood, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr?
95 posted on 10/07/2001 11:46:35 PM PDT by Tony in Hawaii
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To: lormand
New Thread!

Pictures To Make You Feel Warm And Fuzzy Part IV - B2 Bomber

96 posted on 10/08/2001 7:53:11 AM PDT by lormand
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To: jws3sticks
LOL! Love it!
97 posted on 10/08/2001 7:58:33 AM PDT by Snowy
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To: lormand
Ah, thanks for the photos. I remember the "BUFFS" well from my days in the good ol' USAF. I am partial however to those wonderful little cluster bombs and it I get giddy when I see an A-10. HOOYAH! Bump
98 posted on 10/08/2001 8:03:00 AM PDT by alarm rider
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To: bootyist-monk
YA-HOO!!!
99 posted on 10/15/2001 7:08:09 PM PDT by ChowChowFace
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To: ChowChowFace
BTTT

100 posted on 11/18/2001 4:46:03 AM PST by Delta 21
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