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Originally Posted by goldorak
In fact the US had never "winned" in any sense a large scale war after WW2.
That should tell you something.
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... I seem to remember something huge when I was a youngling... around 1991...
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Originally Posted by Oberon
Never understood how non-stealth strategic nuclear bombers are meant to hit their targets without being blasted out of the sky before hand. Although, I guess if the first strike takes out radar installations, then there's no way of knowing where the bombers are, but otherwise it would be a case of picking them up on long range radar, burning through the jamming and directing the patrolling aircraft in.
I guess it depends on what range burn-through is achieved vs launch range of stand-off nuclear missiles.
Altitude would also help...but then again things like the MiG-25 were designed to get up to altitude sharpish. |
Stand off missiles like the ALCM. The B-52 is just a bus to carry them close to shore.
Any deep inland stuff they would bring along jammer aircraft and fighters.
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Originally Posted by August
Because perhaps the B-52 is getting too long in the tooth to rely on and the B1's and B2's have issues that make them unsuitable as replacements?
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Exactly the B-52 airframes are old and the aircraft can no longer carry a full bomb load. The B-2 and B-1Bs do have issues, the Bone still has reliability problems, the B-2 due to its large size is vulnerable to certain new radars that have been developed since it was deployed.