30 Year Old USAF Bomber Loads Up With 24 Stealth Cruise Missiles

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.

To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

(This space reserved for a legally correct snark dump.) It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: :woohoo: A thirty year old $283 million dollar bomber can strike 24 targets simultaneously. (The $2.1 billion dollar B-2 can carry only 16 of these bad boys.)



B-1 Carries Record Setting Missile Load
September 10, 2010
Air Force News|by Tech. Sgt. Robert Wollenberg

"Maintainers loading 24 JASSMs on one B-1 is a record-setting event," said Senior Master Sgt. Jeff Rud, of 7th Maintenance Group. "It's never been done before. The main reason we're doing this is for training. It's the cornerstone of all we do. It provides us the opportunity to hone our war fighting skills and gives us the opportunity to project our combat capability right here out of Dyess (AFB)."

[rurallib]

1. The money we put into killing. Oy Vey!

[ManiacJoe]

2. It's nice to see that we are getting our money's worth from the B1 program.