Posted on 11/01/2021 1:34:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The B-1B Lancer bomber flew Saturday over the Strait of Hormuz... the Red Sea, its narrow Bab el-Mandeb Strait and Egypt’s Suez Canal. Bahrain, Egypt and Saudi Arabia also took part.
The B-1B came from the 37th Bomb Squadron based at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota.
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Gorgeous airplanes, those B-1s. I used to watch them do touch and goes at Hill AFB in Utah. With the wings extended out they look like swans.
Nothing will ever top the look of an SR-71, however.
Need better pic.
Can’t see the “Let’s Go Brandon” tail sticker.
They need a B-1 to deliver all the cash payments they drop to the mullahs.
An SR-71 is a wicked looking airplane no doubt. But I’ve always admired the graceful appearance of the B-1B. They are far more impressive in person than in videos. The B-1 is just so damm big.
“Gorgeous airplanes, those B-1s. “
I’ve always thought so too.
And when the wings swing in tight to the body— they go... supersonic. This is one of the bombers that kept Qadaffi quiet for years after Reagan attacked him for his minions attack on a German venue filled with US personnel. Two of his children killed and he had heat burns. This was conventional weapons.
They of course are/were nuclear capable. Wonder if we could rebuild something of this sort, but made out of composite carbon body. The B-2 being stealth... not supersonic.
Dang, the B-1 is almost as long as a B-52. Surprising.
Big plane. It could carry 6 nukes in the three internal bomb bays.
Was in HS in Utah in the late 80’s and there was a B-1 that I’m pretty sure had some major maintenance work done on it at Hill. It was regularly doing a lot of touch and go’s right over the top of our high school. It was the single loudest plane I have ever heard.
Is there not one bird bath in all of Israel?
” This is one of the bombers that kept Qadaffi quiet for years after Reagan attacked him for his minions attack on a German venue filled with US personnel.”
No; those were F-111s (Aardvarks).
“I always thought the Mach 3 XB-70 Valkyrie was impressive, even if it never did get into production.”
A neighbor of ours was one of the test pilots (Col. Joe Cotton).
Really good message there,send a B-1 stealth bomber over Iran. They never saw it so how did they “get the message”?
Try sending a good old fashioned B-52 fully dressed out AND visible and really send a message!
The message was the photo-ops of the B-1 with fighters planes from various ME adversaries of Iran.
B1-B:
Specifications
Primary Function: Long-range, multi-role, heavy bomber
Builder: Rockwell International, North American Aircraft
Operations Air Frame and Integration: Offensive avionics, Boeing Military Airplane; defensive avionics, AIL Division
Power Plant: Four General Electric F-101-GE-102 turbofan engine with afterburner
Thrust: 30,000-plus pounds (13,500-plus kilograms) with afterburner, per engine
Length: 146 feet (44.5 meters)
Wingspan: 137 feet (41.8 meters) extended forward,
79 feet (24.1 meters) swept aft
Height: 34 feet (10.4 meters)
Weight: Empty, approximately 190,000 pounds (86,183 kilograms)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 477,000 pounds (214,650 kilograms)
Speed: 600+ mph (Mach .92) @ 500 feet
825 mph (Mach 1.25) @ 50,000 feet
Rotate and Takeoff Speeds: 210 Gross - 119 Rotate kts / 134 kts Takeoff
390 Gross - 168 kts Rotate / 183 kts Takeoff
Landing Speeds: 210 Gross - 145 kts
380 Gross - 195 kts
Range: 7,455 miles, unrefueled
3,444 miles with normal weapons load
Ceiling: 60,000 feet (18,000 meters)
Crew: Four (aircraft commander, pilot, offensive systems officer and defensive systems officer)
Way more than that. Two rotary launchers, one in bay 1 and one in bay 2 each carried eight B61 gravity weapons. The third bay was used for extra fuel for the Emergency War Order, EWO, mission.
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