Greatest Modern Bomber

The Greatest Modern Bomber

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Seems the B1B cost was about $383 million, so I'll take 10 Tornados and stuff the mission - I mean the bad guys only have to be lucky once to shoot down the B1B but it's unlikely they'll get lucky ten times
 
You need ten Tornados to actually hit the target, unless you plan on sending Bucaneers with them to pin-point the target just like the RAF did in the Gulf. At least when buying a B-1, you're 90% sure it's going to come out of the factory working.

Why buy a Tornado, or ten, when you can buy F-15s for a cheaper price and they're better...
 
You also forget the B1B is also a nuke penetrator bomber.

If I was going to attack a heavily defended target, deep in Russian territory in a nuke war, I will take the B1 over the tornado anytime.
 
syscom3 said:
You also forget the B1B is also a nuke penetrator bomber.

If I was going to attack a heavily defended target, deep in Russian territory in a nuke war, I will take the B1 over the tornado anytime.
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Agree - it also has double the countermeasures
 
syscom3 said:
You also forget the B1B is also a nuke penetrator bomber.

If I was going to attack a heavily defended target, deep in Russian territory in a nuke war, I will take the B1 over the tornado anytime.
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Agree - it also has double the countermeasures
 
syscom3 said:
You also forget the B1B is also a nuke penetrator bomber.

If I was going to attack a heavily defended target, deep in Russian territory in a nuke war, I will take the B1 over the tornado anytime.
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Indeed, you certainly would want to use a B-1 in that situation but I do not believe the B-1 has a nuclear mission any more. You really, really would want to take a B-2.
 
And the oft quoted $380M price tag, like that quoted for the B-2, includes ground infrastructure, spares, maintenance, etc. It is used as a means of unfairly comparing fly away costs of a single airplane vs that including recurring costs over the lifetime of the airframe. As once said by a famous American writer, "Lies. Damn lies. And statistics."

And while not the "best", certainly one of my all time favorites the B-58 Hustler.
 

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but I do not believe the B-1 has a nuclear mission any more.
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Excuse me while I roll over and die from laughing so bleeding hard.

It is just like sex.

You have to penetrate to dominate.

Thus the mission is still there.
 
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