And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wikipedia says the B-2 came in to service in 1997 & they built 21 total, it says "there are 20 in service." The B-52 came in 1955 and they built 744 of them. It says "As of December 2015, 58 were in active service with 18 in reserve".
Some of them collapsed on the runway. I remember 40 years ago when a B52 was refueling on the ramp and the wing they were putting fuel in fell off. You coudn't pay me to fly on one of those things.
A family member did 20 in BUFFs [Big Ugly Fat F....ellahs.]. Most are gone due to arms treaties with Russia/Soviets, their wings and backs broken in Arizona. The planes are huge. In Deir az Zor (various spellings), Syria, one or more was added to the package, so, as Ambassador Nicki Haley later said at the UN, "You won't see us coming. ... There is no power on earth that will protect you". [To the Syrians, of course.]. "Sneaking" a BUFF into Syria was the message. That tail is the size of a high rise apartment house, but there is was, all boomy and stuff.
The trategic BUFFs carry a dozen or so nuclear cruise missiles under each wing and gravity bombs and more in the belly. No one wants a BUFF parade heading at him.
The Buffs are much easier to bring down....
ReplyDeleteWikipedia says the B-2 came in to service in 1997 & they built 21 total, it says "there are 20 in service."
ReplyDeleteThe B-52 came in 1955 and they built 744 of them. It says "As of December 2015, 58 were in active service with 18 in reserve".
they used up a lot of them over Hanoi and Haiphong.
DeleteSome of them collapsed on the runway. I remember 40 years ago when a B52 was refueling on the ramp and the wing they were putting fuel in fell off. You coudn't pay me to fly on one of those things.
ReplyDeleteA family member did 20 in BUFFs [Big Ugly Fat F....ellahs.]. Most are gone due to arms treaties with Russia/Soviets, their wings and backs broken in Arizona. The planes are huge. In Deir az Zor (various spellings), Syria, one or more was added to the package, so, as Ambassador Nicki Haley later said at the UN, "You won't see us coming. ... There is no power on earth that will protect you". [To the Syrians, of course.]. "Sneaking" a BUFF into Syria was the message. That tail is the size of a high rise apartment house, but there is was, all boomy and stuff.
ReplyDeleteThe trategic BUFFs carry a dozen or so nuclear cruise missiles under each wing and gravity bombs and more in the belly. No one wants a BUFF parade heading at him.