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.) -- Kevin R. Glazier | Michelson 540 | "War is our profession, C/4th/C | (The Officer's Club) | but peace is our goal..." U.S.A.F. | ******************** | -Strategic Air Command "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." -- Thomas Paine