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Link Posted: 9/10/2010 12:21:42 PM EDT
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Man, I'd love to drop a full load of JASSM on some terrorists.



Are you insane? There's a reason those women wear veils!!!



I dunno, I think I could rub one out at high altitude for my country. I mean that is a really shitty day when a JASSM load comes streaking out of the sky from 40,000 feet and hits you in the eye.
Link Posted: 9/10/2010 12:25:31 PM EDT
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No offense but the B-1 is not nessasary in the current war on terror, Hadji doesn't really care if he gets blown up by a JDAM froma B-1 or a Jdam from an F-16 and last time I checked we dotn drop but 1 at a time in most CAS missions. Scrap it, save some cash. We got other planes that can do the same thing as it can.


The B1s range is intercontinental without refueling. So if a B1 took off from an airstrip in country or it refueled in country. It could loiter over an area all day ready to support troops instantly. I dont know an F-16s flight time unrefueled but id guess it isnt more than 2-3 hours

A B1s payload is something like 75,000 lbs  an F-16s is 17,000 but f-16 would have to lose its external fuel tank/s to carry that weight in munitions.

I would say the 2 dont even come close to doing the same thing.
Link Posted: 9/10/2010 12:37:26 PM EDT
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The sad part is that even if the DOD doesn't really want to kill the BONE, Boeing McDonnell Douglas does.









Link Posted: 9/10/2010 12:54:17 PM EDT
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No offense but the B-1 is not nessasary in the current war on terror, Hadji doesn't really care if he gets blown up by a JDAM froma B-1 or a Jdam from an F-16 and last time I checked we dotn drop but 1 at a time in most CAS missions. Scrap it, save some cash. We got other planes that can do the same thing as it can.


It all depends on the target, in places like Now Zad and Musa Qala it was not unusual to unload the entire B1 load because there were just that many targets.  Even more important, the Bone just has the endurance, an F-16 is at Bingo or having to Yo-Yo tank in many fights because of the shorter legs it has.
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