[sukhoi-30mki]

A B-1 during a test of the Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missiles (JASSM).

[Destroyer Sailor]

To all or radical Muslim friends take note of this and quake in fear. It has been nine years since the 9/11 attacks. Never forget, never forgive the War continues.

[refermech]

I think this info was put out for the benefit of the chinese and other potential adversaries.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[RexBeach]

This means, I reckon, that a squadron of B-1B Lancers, similarly armed, could ruin a pretty large target?

The Muzzies and the Chinese need to be scared of us. Not the other way around.

Good post. Good message.

[smokingfrog]

Next stop ....... Iran??

[txrangerette]

Kudos to you for posting this, from the home of the B-1.

[DTogo]

Fortunately this B1B didn't accidently drop a JASSM into the Gulf and create an oil slick... then we'd need a 6-month flying moratorium on the Air Force.

/sarc

[ComputerGuy]

Wasn’t the B-1 super-sonic in its original incarnation?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[Robert A Cook PE]

And so the USAF releases a press statement lauding the ability of ONE aircraft being able to take off and fly ONE (training) mission over the Gulf of Mexico fully loaded with 24 missiles by ONE crew at ONE base?

Now, a press release for a 1000 plane mission over Europe, each plane being fully fueled, fully armed with several rounds of machine gun ammo, and fully loaded with 20 bombs and taking off without collisions or explosions from 15 different airbases on a single morning ....

But we can’t do that any more.

[I fully grant that the many thousand “dumb” bombs dropped with heroic efforts near north Vietnamese bridges were less effective than one or two smart weapons dropped from one stealth plane flying only one mission; but still, consider what this press release really means.)

[mad_as_he$$]

Now if the Pentagon would just get their head out of their a$$es and make a B-1 Air to Air missile truck that could have fire control by the F-22 and F-35.

[popdonnelly]

This is the plane Jimmy Carter didn’t want built.

[vrwc1]

Very cool. I worked on B-1B test systems many years ago so this was an enjoyable read.

[M Kehoe]

May I request that load be deposited on these coordinates tomorrow?

Lat 21° 25' 30" N., long. 39° 49' 22" E.

Thank you.

5.56mm

[CPOSharky]

How long does it take for one mission to deliver 24 weapons?

How many weapons can be delivered by cyclic airops from one aircraft carrier in that same time period?

[wbarmy]

Maybe someone can explain, but how do you get more of them on a B-1 than a B-52? The B-52 can carry a small city.

[SunkenCiv]

24 AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missiles. Thanks sukhoi-30mki.