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Subject: More pwn for the BOne...
doggtag    4/12/2011 8:19:11 AM
Cool. B-1B Lancer Upgrade Will Triple Payload. ( http://www.asdnews.com/news/34745/B-1B_Lancer_Upgrade_Will_Triple_Payload.htm ) "...If fielded, 16-carry modified rotary launchers will increase the number of 500-pound joint direct attack munitions and laser-guided JDAMs carried by the B-1B from 15 to 48, a 320 percent increase in capability...." "..."Currently a B-1 can deliver twice the payload of a B-52 (Stratofortress), meaning, theoretically, with the MER upgrade, one B-1 will be able to deliver the same amount of payload as four B-52s," said Col. Gerald Goodfellow, the 7th Operations Group commander..." Read more: http://www.asdnews.com/news/34745/B-1B_Lancer_Upgrade_Will_Triple_Payload.htm#ixzz1JJJMbN6Y
 
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AThousandYoung       4/12/2011 3:28:58 PM
2x3=6 not 4
 
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doggtag    ...I didn't do the math....   4/12/2011 4:26:25 PM
That's a US military PAO (Public Affairs Office) right there.
Trust me on that, that they don't get the best and brightest of the lot to write their articles.
And don't get me started on when they don't fact-check before publishing their feel-good stories (or quite likely, just quoted/repeated what was said by someone else who didn't fact-check first).
 
Still, that's a nice cluster of eggs the BOne can carry regardless.
All the better each is a precision bomb, not just a swath of dumb bombs that you gotta saturate an area with and hope for the best that you'll hit something worthwhile.
 
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