Posted on 05/16/2012 4:26:22 AM PDT by TSgt
The problem is tooling. They can upgrade/fix the existing airframes with on hand equipment.
To “re-produce” a B52 Boeing would have to make all new tools. The line has been closed for years.
Nothing to do with UN. Has to do with “low observability” paint jobs.
Think “Air Superiority Blue” back when the F-15 was first introduced.
Not "UN".
"USN".
One little letter makes a HUGE difference.
See my screen-name for another example. ;'}
WOW; just WOW!!
Is that Photoshopped or is that real? How does it take-off from that short a platform?
Awwww, it’s PS’d, isn’t it?
Magnificent!
I’ve read that too, especially about the Schweinfurt raids. It turned out that the ball-bearing machinery was very sturdy and hard to kill without a direct hit. I’ve also heard that a single Strike Eagle with PGMs could do far more damage than a whole squadron of B-17s, since each bomb would be a direct or near-direct hit, instead of dozens or even hundreds of yards away. Direct hits from carpet bombing were more of an accident than a fact.
BUFS were one of the few aircraft that made our P-3s look like TIFS.
After WW II we determined that Allied bombing directly hit the target 6% of the time.
The 8th Air Force's bombers primary job in WWII was to draw out the Luftwaffe and to engaged them in high altitude combat. The bombing was a decoy and hitting a target was of secondary importance. Destroying enemy aircraft was job #1.
I was driving home from the Sierras to the bay area, i.e. crossing the central valley, just coming out of the foothills - and a B52 flew across in front of me at maybe 200 feet. Wow!
When I was with the 301st TFW at Carswell AFB in Ft. Worth, TX. I was on the runway arming crew for our birds
F-4DS)> That day they had a full ORI and flushed all of their birds(52s)I was less the 75 yards from from runway. Talk about an experience...my ears still hurt to this day.The only thing better in my life was a backseat ride in an F-105 on a live bombing run at Ft.Hood and an F-4 backseat ride to Meridian, MS.Good memories for life.
“Nothing to do with UN. Has to do with low observability paint jobs......”
Oh, OK! I came from the ground pounder Olive Drab crowd. Don’t know about that blue stuff ;)
I don’t think its a ground pounder thing - I’m ex-army. Its more of a modeler thing. I used to build models long, long ago.
B-52s with their bays full of:
antimissile drones
‘Wild weasel’ drones
anti-personnel claymore drones
and providing commo links to operators near the battlefield.
The Navy could provide a carrier group to fill in the spaces, but the Army would be reduced to just providing the brooms (until the political idiots go for ‘nation building’ occupation).
Saw the aftermath of Arc Light strikes from helos many times. Lots of splinters. Only heard one once at somewhat close range. Insane long drawn out crackling of detonations. Being close would involve bowel control issues. hell, rocket attacks were bad enough. Hard to describe the feeling of helplessness.
domination and consequent subjugation is the objective. The military is a sledge hammer, not a scalpel. I understand the need for scalpels but some folks just don't seem to understand the need for sledgehammers. You claim our dumb bombs were wasteful during WW2 yet we walked away triumphant. Look at our track record since we started relying on PGMs. It's appalling. Our "victories" are victories in name only.
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