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To: minnesota_bound
Just for some perspective:

B-52H:
Payload - 70,000 pounds
Speed - 650 mph (Mach 0.84)
Inventory (2013) – 78

B-2
Payload - 40,000 pounds
Speed - 630 mph (Mach 0.95)
Inventory (2014) – 19

B-1B:
Payload - 75,000 pounds (125,000 w/ externals)
Speed – 900+ mph (Mach 1.2)

Inventory (2012) – 66

29 posted on 11/14/2018 7:25:30 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: Psalm 73

IIRC older models B52s carried MUCH more than this over Vietnam. We basically flew the wings off those models. The base design was modified differently than the models we’ve kept.


32 posted on 11/14/2018 8:10:16 AM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
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