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The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2016 9:41 am
by MR_BURNS2
RE: The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2016 3:21 pm
by gosnold
Great find!
RE: The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2016 4:49 pm
by mikmykWS
Yeah that was pretty cool. Thanks!
Mike
RE: The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2016 5:24 pm
by thewood1
That is a great article.
RE: The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2016 1:19 pm
by Eggstor
A very interesting article. The last answer would seem to speak to a couple of earlier posts, as well as potential implications for the effectiveness of look-down/shoot-down radars against targets in the weeds.
RE: The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 12:02 pm
by MR_BURNS2
Yeah, i wonder if
Aleksandr Zuyev was the pilot in question.
Makes me wonder how effective low-level air and cruise missile attacks really are.
Take Iraqi Freedom, Ballistic Missiles were all intercepted or not going to hit anything of value, but antiquated chinese Seersucker cruise-missiles seem to be another matter. Several were fired in the early days, and the Patriot systems seem to have been unable to engage them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/inter ... -GORD.html
RE: The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 7:18 pm
by magi
That was a fine read..... Extremely interesting… Thank you very much…
RE: The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2016 3:24 am
by SSN754planker
That article was great. But if you want to know even more about how they flew these birds during the Vietnam Era I highly suggest this book.
Flying from the Black Hole: The B-52 Navigator-Bombardiers of Vietnam
Several hundred pages of highly detailed info on how they planned flew and executed missions. Including Linebacker II.
RE: The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2016 7:09 am
by mikkey
Interesting articles, thanks for sharing guys.