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To: Cheerio

The B-1 75,000/lb internal bomb load, 50,000 external
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_B-1_Lancer
The B-21 I have not found out the bomb load.


6 posted on 11/14/2018 6:18:38 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

Maybe we could sell them to Australia...


8 posted on 11/14/2018 6:22:01 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: minnesota_bound

The B-1 was a heckuva bomb truck in Afghanistan during the active big campaigns against the Taliban.


11 posted on 11/14/2018 6:29:44 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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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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