Posted on 06/20/2025 7:08:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
Take a C-17 and develop a reliable payload ejection mechanism that drops a GBU-57 out the back. It’s modern and the structural integrity to get the job done.
Aviation Ping!....................
“You better brush up on your flying skills. Thank you for volunteering.”
-
No prob.
“So there I was, flying a B-2 Bomber over the country of Iran....preparing to save the world from unspeakable evil...”
It’ll make a hell of a bar story!
Probably attract more chicks than back when I was a cocaine dealer. 😁
In this case perhaps a lease. They can pay us with the money we gave them.
C141s why oh why would you want 1960s era turbojet cargo planes the only reason those where made is we had just one engine at the time in the 10000lb thrust class the J57 and in typical American fashion we slapped it everything with wings. The 141,B52,U2,DC8, 707 and every derivative of the 707 like C135, stratotankers you name it. Then the J57 was uprated to the J75,J52, and adding a fan made the JT8D which powered the 737,727,DC9 all the same core. All the same crap fuel economy too. But if that’s the engine you have that’s the engine you use. It’s why there are 8 on a B52 there was no 20,000lb thrust class engine when it was designed. So a C141 is four engines shy of a B52 in range and payload.
Israel would be better off getting an Airbus turboprop or using a 777 or 767 as a modification project bomb bays cut into the frame rings of an aircraft so much mods are needed it’s not just cut a opening and put doors under it.
There was a project using 747 and launchers that chunked missiles out the rear side cargo doors using a rail system and rotary holder’s a 747 would carry 100 ALCM a 777 is similar in size again they lack the time to do the mods. It was always expected that the USA would take out those deep sites in Iran if they ever got close to a weapon. Well that day is here.
Not true.
They just asked for another "emergency aid" package on top of their annual billions. And that's on top of the two $14 billion+ "emergency aid" packages Biden gave them since Oct 7th.
So don't tell me only asking for "just one plane."
And, in 2012, ... Boeing gouging taxpayers ... Burma studies transsexual turtles ...
Nice try at deflection, but utterly irrelevant.
"Since we waste money on X, we should waste money on Y."
That's hardly a conservative argument. If we were talking about any other welfare recipient than Israel, you wouldn't embarrass yourself by making it.
General "Buck" Turgidson
‘Rods from God’, call on line 1. . .
Not sure what it is, but something tells me that Israel will present quite the surprise fairly soon...
There’s a huge used plane lot just off I-10 in Arizona. Come on down!
Nothing that wouldn't BUFF right out.
Which Israel probably already has.
What about finding an old Avro Vulcan
—
No parts.
I have to believe that the mossad has those on film from the 50’s and 60’s. LOL
My Dad was in Army intelligence. He was a photographer. He could shoot a briefcase full of documents in about three minutes. LOL.
Some of these drawings are on ‘D’ size velllum 24×36 inches..............
The lend lease act to get World War I era destroyers to Great Britian when they were fighting alone against Hitler comes to mind.
Australia should sell them FB 111’s
make your own airplanes, Israel
You just have to put them on the floor. Ha ha.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.