Title: WHY EVEN A SINGLE B2 COULD BE ENOUGH TO TAKE OUT NORTH KOREAN MILITARY? Source:
[None] URL Source:https://youtu.be/MbI1fULINek?t=320 Published:Aug 1, 2017 Author:Defense Updates Post Date:2017-12-16 09:41:23 by BTP Holdings Keywords:None Views:154 Comments:21
Poster Comment:
Would the U.S. be so insane as to initiate a nuclear strike against North Korea? China needs to get moving and control Kim.
The B-2s boast special shaping and coatings to help them avoid detection. They have dropped bombs during U.S. operations in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya—sometimes flying non-stop from their main base in Missouri.
But the B-2s’ pilots—there have been only around 600—don’t get much practice. Their planes are complex, unreliable and too expensive to risk in everyday training.
Just nine or so B-2s are flight-ready at any given time. The rest are in maintenance or getting upgraded. A single hour of flying in a B-2 sets back the Air Force as much as $170,000—that’s 10 times what an A-10 attack jet costs.
“We have to be kind of careful with what we do,” B-2 pilot Capt. Dan St. Clair told Hunter. “Obviously we have to preserve [the B-2s]—an incredibly expensive bill was paid for them.”
St. Clair went on to say that B-2 pilots get to fly “between one and three” sorties per month. A single flight could last as many as 20 hours—or as few as three.
A single hour of flying in a B-2 sets back the Air Force as much as $170,000
That is darn costly to fly them. But remember when they were dropping sonar buoys off the coast of Cuba to see if Soviet subs were operating in the area? They flew those missions out of Glenview NAS in Glenview, Illinois. That base is long closed now and I hear it is turned into a shopping center. We need more shopping malls, right Cyni?
When the base was open and operating, we would sometimes go in there for lunch. All we had to do was show our State I.D. and they would let us eat as contractors. The Swabies had some really good food. ;)