during the 2000's. america flew 5 of these bombers across the pacific on a 44 hour mission to bomb afghanistan, refueling along the way. they got like 20 of these. potentially 1600 bombs if they use 500 pounders
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B-2 drops 80 JDAMs
during the 2000's. america flew 5 of these bombers across the pacific on a 44 hour mission to bomb afghanistan, refueling along the way. they got like 20 of these. potentially 1600 bombs if they use 500 pounders
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(Old Spike)
Think we used up everything for the JDAM complex already? ..... and dumb bombs left to intergrate? I'd be curious to know.... truly!
(Old Spike)
its a bombs they've been producing for 70 years. its allies produce liscenced versions of them and other countries produce clones of them. so in a sense. they've got access to wharehouses full of them. they also have 1000lbs and 2000lbs bombs
as for the jdams. going off the last 3 years. they got somewhere in the area of 65k of them. they ordered 30k in 2019, 20k in 2020, 15k last year and only a 2k for this year. now they're moving onto something else. they used like 7 or so in syria and they probably trained with them. probably something like 64k waiting to be paired with a bomb
(Old Spike)
Yes i know, why i called them dumb bombs, referring to the ww2 and cold war stockpiles. Reallise today that's likely classified
(Old Spike)
i don't think its classified, i think its just that its something that we can produce faster than we could use them. the time it take for the bombers to do a sortie, the refueling, checking over the aircraft, waiting for troops to move forward before sending out another sortie.. meanwhile, dozens of companies all around the world are spitting out shells, other companies the fuzes and sending them off to the base for assembly. god damn the american military industrial complex makes me hard when it works the way its suppose to
(Old Spike)
Have to reiterate, only talking about old stockpiles ww2, cold war. Not talking about anything else...forget the kit..... are there any suitable bombs left in our stockpiles, and yes NATO cold war storage....."why would anyone give tha info away" I realised waking up, fuzzy yet somwhat lucent.
Talking around eachother here. No matter these things happen.... when.... you're shitfaced i can only surmise.