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To: rlmorel
1.4 tons in four days.

That's not really that much, right?

35 posted on 11/20/2015 9:54:27 AM PST by Randy From Concrete
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To: Randy From Concrete; Royal Wulff

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.


43 posted on 11/20/2015 12:59:30 PM PST by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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