krg2@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin R. Glazier) (02/04/91)
From: krg2@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin R. Glazier)
As an AFROTC cadet and a future pilot candidate, I wondered the
same thing many of you were wondering...why are we using B-52's
in Iraq and not B-1's. I asked my CO about this and it seems that
although some have had problems (engine fires, software bugs, etc.)
the most important reason that there are no B-1's in the Gulf
is that neither the B-1 nor the B-1B are certified to carry
conventional payloads...it has a strictly nuclear role. (It has
not, as some have suggested, replaced the B-52 in the strategic
triad (yet)--merely supplemented it.)
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C/4th/C | (The Officer's Club) | but peace is our goal..."
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