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2025-04-09 -Land of the Free

In the largest single deployment of stealth bombers in U.S. history, the Pentagon has sent six B-2 ‘Spirit’ aircraft to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-04-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11149 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Distance Diego-Garcia → Tehran: 3,270.78 mi (5,263.81 km)
Maximum speed: 630+/- mph
Cruise speed: 560+/- mph
Range: 6,900 miles without refueling.
Approx Flight time to Tehran: 6 hrs
Can carry 40,000lbs bombs, or 12+ B83 (1.2MT) nuclear weapons.

Using this Nuke weapon calculator
to see what just one B83 would do to Tehran

Fireball radius: 1.14 km (4.11 km²),
Moderate blast damage radius (5 psi): 7.47 km (175 km²),
At 5 psi overpressure, most residential buildings collapse,
Thermal radiation radius (3rd degree burns): 13.2 km (547 km²),

Estimated fatalities: 2,641,070,
Estimated injuries: 3,752,110,

Posted by NN2N1 2025-04-09 05:38|| 2025-04-09 05:38|| Front Page Top

#2 4,293 miles as the crow flies from Diego to Beijing - but 6,500 miles to Lop Nor and 8,000 miles to the targets near Qinling - lots of lead time there ...

After constantly staging B52's etc on Diego for the last 40 years wouldn't you anticipate that some nefarious type had wargamed a solution to that threat, just on a contingency basis

Posted by Clem+Elmish4239 2025-04-09 13:34|| 2025-04-09 13:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Only six? I feel like 12 would send a stronger message.

Posted by mossomo 2025-04-09 17:16|| 2025-04-09 17:16|| Front Page Top

#4 There are 19 B2's. Odds are only half of them are O/R at any given time for a combat mission. That'd leave 3-4 operational not in Diego. And of the ones in Diego, how many days can they sit on the tarmac before they start to spontaneously become AOG. Figure 4 available for a mission of 6 are on deck.

Posted by Clem+Elmish4239 2025-04-09 17:58|| 2025-04-09 17:58|| Front Page Top

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