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To: robowombat
The B-47 was a medium range 1950s era bomber. It was not much bigger than a modern fighter jet.


14 posted on 09/22/2022 11:54:09 AM PDT by Signalman
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Looks like a Mini B-52


16 posted on 09/22/2022 12:29:00 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Signalman

One of the most beautiful airplanes - of any sort - ever designed and built.

I remember reading in a reference book some years ago that the emphasis for developing the B-52 came when General LeMay was being briefed on the number of B-47‘s that would be required to complete various contingency plan conventional strike missions.

When he remarked about how many B-47s were being required for execution (a lot), the plans officer doing the briefing said the general needed think about the B-47 in terms of roughly the number of B-17 missions that would be required to destroy the same target. This was because the conventional bomb carrying capacity of the B-47 wasn’t really that much different than the B-17 (14k (max (all internal) vs 17k (max (internal and external))).

The B-47 just flew higher, faster, and further than its WWII predecessor. Of course, the B-47s primary mission was nuclear strike against the Soviet Union.

Not sure if the B-47 ever dropped a conventional bomb in anger.


18 posted on 09/22/2022 12:45:33 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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