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The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52 - 6/16/2016 12:41:36 PM

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https://hushkit.net/2016/06/11/the-empires-ironclad-flying-fighting-in-the-b-52/

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RE: The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52 - 6/16/2016 6:21:52 PM

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Great find!

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RE: The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52 - 6/16/2016 7:49:32 PM

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Yeah that was pretty cool. Thanks!

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RE: The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52 - 6/16/2016 8:24:06 PM

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That is a great article.

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RE: The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52 - 6/17/2016 4:19:16 PM

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A very interesting article. The last answer would seem to speak to a couple of earlier posts, as well as potential implications for the effectiveness of look-down/shoot-down radars against targets in the weeds.

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RE: The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52 - 6/18/2016 3:02:22 PM

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Yeah, i wonder if Aleksandr Zuyev was the pilot in question.
Makes me wonder how effective low-level air and cruise missile attacks really are.

Take Iraqi Freedom, Ballistic Missiles were all intercepted or not going to hit anything of value, but antiquated chinese Seersucker cruise-missiles seem to be another matter. Several were fired in the early days, and the Patriot systems seem to have been unable to engage them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/international/middleeast/19CND-GORD.html

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RE: The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52 - 6/18/2016 10:18:17 PM

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That was a fine read..... Extremely interesting… Thank you very much…

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RE: The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52 - 6/19/2016 6:24:49 AM

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That article was great. But if you want to know even more about how they flew these birds during the Vietnam Era I highly suggest this book.

Flying from the Black Hole: The B-52 Navigator-Bombardiers of Vietnam

Several hundred pages of highly detailed info on how they planned flew and executed missions. Including Linebacker II.

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RE: The Empire’s Ironclad: Flying & Fighting in the B-52 - 6/19/2016 10:09:13 AM

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