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Vintage Boeing B-52 gets new long-range Lockheed cruise missile
Flightglobal.com ^
| 23 NOVEMBER, 2015
| JAMES DREW
Posted on 11/23/2015 9:28:29 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki
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posted on
11/23/2015 9:31:23 PM PST
by
867V309
(Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
To: 867V309
Nice to see engineering coming back into vogue.
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posted on
11/23/2015 9:35:10 PM PST
by
Bogie
To: sukhoi-30mki
The B-52 is an engineering masterpiece.
To: hinckley buzzard
I grew up near the AFB in Amarillo and loved
driving by the base and seeing the Buffs with
their high tails. My ex-BIL went to the AF
academy and ended up being a B-52 pilot.
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posted on
11/23/2015 9:40:45 PM PST
by
sparklite2
(Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
To: hinckley buzzard
The B-52 is an engineering masterpiece.
I don't know nuthin' but this looks like a tremendous launch platform that greatly extends the range of ordnance and reduces time to target.
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posted on
11/23/2015 9:42:37 PM PST
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867V309
(Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
To: sukhoi-30mki
The air force currently plans to retire the supersonic Boeing/Rockwell B-1B and the B-52H in the 1940s 1940's you say?
To: sukhoi-30mki
“The air force currently plans to retire the supersonic Boeing/Rockwell B-1B and the B-52H in the 1940s as their Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) replacement steps in.”
I hear that B-29 is really gonna be something!
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posted on
11/23/2015 9:44:00 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
To: HonkyTonkMan
Heh, Good catch. Guess we’re back to B-17’s
To: Monty22002
Hey, we still fly a b17 and I have been involved with the same bird for almost 25 years.She still looks great and me,well not so much.
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posted on
11/23/2015 9:48:38 PM PST
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
A $9 million contract? That won’t even pay for the feasibility studies. $900 million I would believe.
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posted on
11/23/2015 9:48:45 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
To: sukhoi-30mki
The bomber has long carried conventional cruise missiles, namely the non-nuclear derivative of the AGM-86 “ALCM†that has an unclassified range of 600nm and is being retired as supplies run low... Putin would be retiring these right into ISIS positions. And running the supplies low in the process.
To: sukhoi-30mki
Of course, the difference between accomodating conventional and and nuke warheads is likely not much more that electronic wiring arrangements for PAL links. I doubt the warhead hardware hardpoints are drastically different. We have had dual warhead cruise missiles for decades.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
A $9 million contract? That won’t even pay for the feasibility studies.
Good catch! $9 million wouldn't buy the congressmen to approve the appropriation.
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posted on
11/23/2015 9:57:00 PM PST
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867V309
(Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
To: hinckley buzzard
The B-52 is an engineering masterpiece.
Yes it is. And it’s still a big ugly beautiful old bird.
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posted on
11/23/2015 10:03:36 PM PST
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laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: HANG THE EXPENSE
Hey, we still fly a b17 and I have been involved with the same bird for almost 25 years
That’s awesome! You’re to be commended.
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posted on
11/23/2015 10:05:49 PM PST
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: 867V309
LOL...I like your comparison. Maybe the $9 M would initially buy him, but wouldn’t keep him bought.
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posted on
11/23/2015 10:07:19 PM PST
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ProtectOurFreedom
(For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
LOL...I like your comparison. Maybe the $9 M would initially buy him, but wouldn’t keep him bought.
Maybe if you threw in a hooker...
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posted on
11/23/2015 10:12:40 PM PST
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867V309
(Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
To: 867V309
Or a couple young boys...
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posted on
11/23/2015 10:16:48 PM PST
by
null and void
(We are AmeriCANs. We CAN learn, and learn from history, if we choose.)
To: laplata
It helps that we are all just a little crazy.
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posted on
11/23/2015 10:24:23 PM PST
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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