Posted on 11/20/2015 8:39:07 AM PST by tcrlaf
There’s not much trust in any media reports, but the Russian’s are going to be the least trustworthy.
Iranian F-14 Tomcats escorting Russian Air Force Tu-95MS Bear H
See 1:20 for F-14 Tomcats and 1:13 F-4 Phantom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ascSnBbxfaU
LOL, I should know better than to not put a sarcasm tag on it...that’s on me.
I was considering how much that is, and if a B-1B can take off with half a fuel load with the bomb load bringing it up to its maximum takeoff weight, it looks like a B-1B could carry about 50 tons of bombs into the air and get refueled as needed.
That would be about 7 fully loaded B-1B aircraft a day dropping their loads each day for four days. My assumptions about how often they take off at the maximum takeoff weight or what mix of fuel and bombs a B-1B would use is just speculation with some facts backing it up.
I presume that is a lot of iron bombs...the Russkies are dropping.
I am glad he is bombing them.
But I have zero respect for him.
I said more respect for him than for Zero. So zero respect works.
heh, true, that.
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