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If I am not mistaken, each B-52 will carry either 12 2,500lb bombs, or 6 5,000lb bombs. Either way, that is almost the weight of a daisy cutter without the p-zazz! Also, if these are cluster bombs, they are full of little bomblets and can do one heck of a lot of damage.

During the last days of the gulf war, they were starting to load the B-52's with the 2000 lb. laser guided bombs that were normally carried by the F117's. The F117's carried two bombs, but I read that the B52 carried either 20 or 40 (fuzzy memory).

The B52's didn't have the ability to control the bombs, only the capability to carry them and drop them one at a time. Each B-52 was to be accompanied by an F117 which did the actual targeting and control of the bombs. The F117's which did a vast majority of the precision bombing during the gulf war would in effect have their strength multiplied by 20.

The war was halted before they were launched. The B52 has an acknowledged capacity of approximately 70,000 Lb.s of bombs and missles. The following site has some more info. B-52

If I am not mistaken, each B-52 will carry either 12 2,500lb bombs, or 6 5,000lb bombs.

The B-52 can carry approximately 70000 pounds of ordinance. I can't recall the number but in arc light strikes in nam I think they had a mix of 750 and 500 pounders up near 100 onboard.

B-52 fact sheet