Author Topic: Afghanistan anecdote; true? false? I don't know. (Read 1676 times)

Frogm4n · « **Reply #45 on:** February 16, 2004, 05:43:24 PM »

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Originally posted by SunTracker
I would take 10 B1s over 1 B2. B2 is just too valuable to lose.

I am going off the assumption the B1 cost 100million, the B2 cost 1.1 billion.

yea but the b52 can do the b1s job just fine. b2 is at least stealth

weaselsan · « **Reply #46 on:** February 16, 2004, 05:44:07 PM »

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Originally posted by lord dolf vader
think of the source hes 0 for 2 on military matters that can be checked.

mach 1.2 at 50k

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/b-1b-specs.htm

B1B speed/alt

600+ mph (Mach .92) @ 500 feet
825 mph (Mach 1.25) @ 50,000 feet

We are up in the Mountains...................D OH.....Really not necessary to go supersonic to make some diaperhead crap something he didn't eat......

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #47 on:** February 16, 2004, 05:52:23 PM »

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Originaly spewed by LDV
B1B speed/alt

600+ mph (Mach .92) @ 500 feet
825 mph (Mach 1.25) @ 50,000 feet

toads r/c club buddies are full of **** again.

Average elevation of Afghaistan about 4000ft... A good number of the mountain areas we are fighting in are in the area of 10,000 feet...

Ripsnort · « **Reply #48 on:** February 16, 2004, 06:02:26 PM »

Guys, LDF never comes back. He's a drive by poster.

AKIron · « **Reply #49 on:** February 16, 2004, 06:04:26 PM »

Cool story. Even if it didn't happen as told, stuff like it happens often enough. If you think Air Force pilots don't enjoy showboating a little for the ground troops then you haven't been around many.

ravells · « **Reply #50 on:** February 16, 2004, 06:24:38 PM »

Sorry if this seems like a silly question...but how did the crew of the B1 know there was nothing in the area from 20k?

Is the kit (I assume infra red based) on the plane so acute that it can pick out a lone sniper hiding in a cave or something?

Ravs

wipass · « **Reply #51 on:** February 19, 2004, 10:59:56 AM »

No biggie,

Concorde used to do that every day over the Bristol Channel