To: sukhoi-30mki
Why not?
To: NorthMountain
The B-47 needed rocket-assisted takeoff because once loaded with a nuclear weapon (of its day in the early to middle 1950's) that weighed 9,000 to 12,000 pounds, it needed all the assistance it can to get off the ground in a reasonable distance. Today, our most powerful free-fall nuclear weapon--the B83 bomb with yield of 1.2 MT--weighs only 2,400 pounds, easily within the weight limits of the bomb racks on the F-15E Strike Eagle plane.
19 posted on
09/15/2014 8:12:41 AM PDT by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: NorthMountain
Tamden landing gear on that 1st pic?
31 posted on
09/15/2014 9:38:27 AM PDT by
Rannug
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