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To: Empireoftheatom48
B-1 Bomber is not stealth

BONE wasn't advertised as stealthy, but the basic design resulted IIRC in a radar signature (for equipment in the 70's) about the size of a hawk. (The B-52's is/was more on the scale of a billboard---too many large almost flat surfaces.)

Also and in addition to an already quite extensive electronics capability (radar detection/jamming etc) designed into the B-1A, there were whole frame sections in the aft fuselage that only showed on drawings and the full-scale mockup used to verify parts locations/cable runs as "Reserved for future systems growth".

Considering the amount of miniaturization in electronics since I last worked on that bird, even if those voids were only fractionally used, the BONE today would have to pack a very serious counter-radar punch indeed.

I wouldn't like to be any OPFOR Anti-aircraft site with either BONE or Spirit coming at me no matter what the media called 'em.

399 posted on 07/10/2019 9:36:58 PM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Prayer and Vigilance yes. Violence, No.........Not just yet.)
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To: Unrepentant VN Vet

> since I last worked on that bird

I’m not worthy! Thank you for your service. My dad shot rockets off in the Pacific in the early 60s.

-SB


402 posted on 07/10/2019 9:40:34 PM PDT by Snowybear
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