Posted on 06/24/2010 11:51:30 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
I think it’s fair to remember that, at that time, the US had the option of purchasing a HUGE number of GLCMs to position in Europe. These would have been cheaper, more reliable, and faster to target than the B-1B. Even the Brits pused for the GLCMs over the B-1. Not to mention the fact that our research and experience with “modern” Soviet radar proved that their radar was, indeed, capable of intercepting the low-flying B-1.
Obama would sooner give them to Syria.
Typing error?
These airframes are not interchangeable. Whoever wrote that should get a job at Wendy's. There you can substitute something else for your fries.
And the B-52, older than its crews, keeps on going and going and going and going...
How ‘bout we retire the B-52s and keep the B-1Bs. At least the B-1 has a chance of survival in contested airspace. Any aerial dump truck can probably do the B-52s’ job.
They need to re-fit them a la Dale Brown’s planes.
You forgot missile defense. Don’t need that either.
Have you noticed how ALL THIS has gone largely under the MSM’s radar? Where are the pundits that tore into Bush and Rumsfeld???????????
If we are just nice to them.....
Kumbaya, kumbaya....
Britian under Labour party rule did just that. Slashed their Navy and Armed Forces into something that could barely even protect their own borders.
And they still ended up with +50% of GDP going to government spending and all that welfare for the millions of 3rd world immigrants that keep flooding into that country.
And they are still facing a debt that country has never seen before.
We are doing the same thing right now. I’m sure it will turn out the same as it did for Britian.
A GLCM is subsonic. How can it be faster to target than a BONE?
I wonder how the ground pounders feel about losing even 1 of the A-10’s...
There is still a lot of life left in the B-1B’s, they spent most of their life on a SAC base and had no missions for the longest time until 2001. We haven’t been wearing out the airframes like all of the other craft in the inventory.
If you want cruise missiles, we could go back to the air-launched cruise missile of of the B-52 or someone could design one to fit in the rotary bomb bay on the B-1B.
At some future date, America will rue the day we cut our defense to the bone.
Why wait?
The slogan of the Bone crews was BOTOTCHA--Bombs On Target, On Time, Come Home Alive. As words to live by, not bad.
Megafortress!
The F-15s are headed for the boneyard
“Obviously, 0 never read SunTzu”
He was too busy reading Marx, Mao and Alinsky.
- JP
OR more. They way the aircraft were built, each is unique - few parts interchange.
Good idea, badly done.
Pack ‘em in and save the dough. Of ocurse the 50 Y/O B-52 is getting a bit long in the tooth as well.
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