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Huh? The nuke Bone was AGM-69, B-61 and B-83 with 84 x Mk82 for the conventional mission. De-nuking the Bone brought the 10 by CEM and eventually 1760 on the rotaries and the 10 by's. The abrupt retirement of the AGM-69 left it gravity bomb only, ALCM never happened, even then it was 8 internal in the movable bulkhead bay with a short tank forward and 12-14 external. Good thing it went conventional only when it did and JDAM came along, otherwise without OEF/OIF the Bone would have retired by 2005.

X-51 was a one off experimental program. They flew it on Balls 50 b/c NASA retired Balls 8 and let Balls 25 fall into disrepair forcing us to fly it out to Shepard to end its life at the maintenance tech school as a trainer. They had to come to the 419th b/c all the NASA birds were no longer at Edwards. Any operational hypersonic weapon will fit in a B-52 or B-21 bomb bay.

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If possible, I think they should just wait and see what happens in 2021: New START could just expire.

The biggest benefit to letting START expire would be more B-21's

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<blockquote data-quote="mkellytx" data-source="post: 328947" data-attributes="member: 3473">Huh?&nbsp; The nuke Bone was AGM-69, B-61 and B-83 with 84 x Mk82 for the conventional mission.&nbsp; De-nuking the Bone brought the 10 by CEM and eventually 1760 on the rotaries and the 10 by's.&nbsp; The abrupt retirement of the AGM-69 left it gravity bomb only, ALCM never happened, even then it was 8 internal in the movable bulkhead bay with a short tank forward and 12-14 external.&nbsp; Good thing it went conventional only when it did and JDAM came along, otherwise without OEF/OIF the Bone would have retired by 2005.X-51 was a one off experimental program.&nbsp; They flew it on Balls 50 b/c NASA retired Balls 8 and let Balls 25 fall into disrepair forcing us to fly it out to Shepard to end its life at the maintenance tech school as a trainer.&nbsp; They had to come to the 419th b/c all the NASA birds were no longer at Edwards.&nbsp; Any operational hypersonic weapon will fit in a B-52 or B-21 bomb bay.[quote author=marauder2048]If possible, I think they should just wait and see what happens in 2021: New START could just expire.</blockquote>The biggest benefit to letting START expire would be more B-21's[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="mkellytx, post: 328947, member: 3473"] Huh? The nuke Bone was AGM-69, B-61 and B-83 with 84 x Mk82 for the conventional mission. De-nuking the Bone brought the 10 by CEM and eventually 1760 on the rotaries and the 10 by's. The abrupt retirement of the AGM-69 left it gravity bomb only, ALCM never happened, even then it was 8 internal in the movable bulkhead bay with a short tank forward and 12-14 external. Good thing it went conventional only when it did and JDAM came along, otherwise without OEF/OIF the Bone would have retired by 2005. X-51 was a one off experimental program. They flew it on Balls 50 b/c NASA retired Balls 8 and let Balls 25 fall into disrepair forcing us to fly it out to Shepard to end its life at the maintenance tech school as a trainer. They had to come to the 419th b/c all the NASA birds were no longer at Edwards. Any operational hypersonic weapon will fit in a B-52 or B-21 bomb bay. [quote author=marauder2048] If possible, I think they should just wait and see what happens in 2021: New START could just expire. [/quote] The biggest benefit to letting START expire would be more B-21's [/QUOTE]

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