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2024-02-03 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

B1 Bombers Headed Downrange Now - Poll for Destination!

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Posted by Slenter Panda4300 2024-02-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [28 views ] Top

#1 Useful tidbit.
How is the ordinance?

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-03 06:12|| 2024-02-03 06:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Late to the party I guess. Haven’t seen anyone specify what missiles the B1s launched (125 attacks on 85 targets). Let’s presume they were JASSM AGM185s. At last count we had 2,000 of 4,900 ordered in service so that’d be ballpark 6% of inventory. They cost 1.266 million each so the missiles alone cost $158 million (not including cost per block hour for the bombers, tankers, AWACs etc.). Speedy exercise to shoot up some desert.

As info here’s a link to the cost per missile for units in the US inventory https://www.twz.com/32277/here-is-what-each-of-the-pentagons-air-launched-missiles-and-bombs-actually-cost

Posted by Slenter Panda4300 2024-02-03 06:43|| 2024-02-03 06:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Thanks, Panda.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-03 08:11|| 2024-02-03 08:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Poll for Destination!

Page 1.
Honorable Mention, halftime show.
Sunday Evening internal polling.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-03 10:06|| 2024-02-03 10:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Iraqi headquarters is reduced to rubble as pictures show aftermath of Biden's revenge strike: Militia says they do not want to 'escalate tensions' with the West after '34 Iran-backed fighters' were killed

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-03 11:35|| 2024-02-03 11:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Jerusalem Capital buildings?

/Sarc. I think

Posted by Frank G 2024-02-03 13:05|| 2024-02-03 13:05|| Front Page Top

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