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They say it in this video, I definitely could be wrong, and well over 14k miles there and back 35 hour flight time
I'll have to watch that later.
They say it in this video, I definitely could be wrong, and well over 14k miles there and back 35 hour flight time
*Popular music.“You once said that you would pity he man who would ever become my enemy.
My answer was that I would ever protect and shield you. This I have done. Forgive me all else. I am but a soldier.”
The British used tanker relays and inflight refueling to conduct the then-longest ranged bombing missions ever during the Falklands war.
Operation Black Buck - Wikipedia
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Each mission required 13 aircraft operating from the same runway.
They say it in this video, I definitely could be wrong, and well over 14k miles there and back 35 hour flight time
It was only 7
How could you post a link to Operations Room and be remiss in linking the video to the actual Black Buck Raid!?
First thing I thought of when he mentioned it.
How could you post a link to Operations Room and be remiss in linking the video to the actual Black Buck Raid!?
First thing I thought of when he mentioned it.
And HMS Dreadnaught is the only battleship to sink a submarine.You missed! My turn!
*The ocean liner Olympic, sister ship to Titanic, became the only merchant vessel in WWI to sink an enemy warship when she rammed U-boat U-103.
"On purpose" and "confirmed" should be added to that sentence.And HMS Dreadnaught is the only battleship to sink a submarine.
Not really a bombing mission though, I mean they were launching cruise missiles from a hundred miles away from the Iraqi border far from any air defences. The Vulcans had to go in at 300 feet and actually overfly the enemy airbase before dropping bombs rather than standing off nice and safe.Because I brought up the even LONGER mission by B 52s
This...this is why we have the B 52. If you want things dead you call them inThough on the subject of B-52s there is a story from Afghanistan.
This was very early in the campaign, November 2001 when Afganistan was still actively being fought over. Northern Alliance forces backed by NATO were fighting with the Taliban over Bagram airbase and this was a real fight involving thousands of soldiers, one of the major actions of the war.
So the Taliban are making a big push and the Alliance guys are in a bad position, the Taliban have a whole army there, thousands of guys, artillery, tanks and it is not going well. Air support is minimal and the attached US spec ops guys are getting desperate, Taliban forces are less than 500 yards away with only a road seperating the front lines of the two forces. They manage to finally get through to an aircraft expecting a strike jet.
Nope, its a B52 hauling no less than 45 mk82 dumb bombs.
Now the B-52 is not a close support aircraft, this one in particular didn't have any laser guidance gear or anything. Normally the just drop JDAMS which are GPS guided, but this one is hauling plain old iron bombs.
The situation though is critical so the aircraft commander decides to go in, the air controller asks him to drop everything in a line at 500 yards, danger close for any bomb let alone dumb bombs dropped from forty thousand feet.
The crew have to pretty much wing it inventing a CAS protocol as they set up on their run They have to drop from behind the Alliance position which means for those guys it looks like the bombs are being dumped on them which caused a little bit of concern. They had to drop from seven miles back and it took a minute for them to fall.
Fortunately the calcs were good and the b-52 dropped all 45 bombs across the frontline, each bomb being 500lbs. The results were as you'd expect from a carpet bombing danger close, apocalyptic.
It ended the fight then and there completely silencing the battle. After the shock wore off the Alliance troops charged forward with a cheer and drove off the remaining Taliban securing Bagram.
Post battle analysis credited that one aircraft with 1,200 kills.
I would chalk this up to the usual USAF overclaiming, there is no way you are getting that many kills with bombing carpet unless the enemy is using Napoleonic era formations and Talibans were not that dumb. It's the same as the claim during Kosovo war that B-52 mission annihilated two Serbian infantry battalions, but in reality they only killed bunch of trees.Post battle analysis credited that one aircraft with 1,200 kills.
I would chalk this up to the usual USAF overclaiming, there is no way you are getting that many kills with bombing carpet unless the enemy is using Napoleonic era formations and Talibans were not that dumb. It's the same as the claim during Kosovo war that B-52 mission annihilated two Serbian infantry battalions, but in reality they only killed bunch of trees.