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Orionblamblam said:...but it's of the "A" model, not B, so let me know if you're still interested.
Orionblamblam said:It's the same drawing, but slightly different...it's the "B-1" not the "B-1B." From April '76, 1/150 scale. It'd take 8 scans to get it all, but it's of the "A" model, not B, so let me know if you're still interested.
flateric said:Orionblamblam said:...but it's of the "A" model, not B, so let me know if you're still interested.
Surely 'yes', Scott. Thank you!
P.S. And what is on the OTHER side of this fold-out drawings sheet?
TinWing said:Orionblamblam, tell me if you want me to take it down for any reason.
Firefly 2 said:Phoenix???? ???
Sometime in the early '80s I saw in AW & ST there was a B-1C proposed for ADC, a long range interceptor, that would use the F-14's radar & have Phoenixes in the weapons bay(s).
Pyrrhic victory said:B-1A prototype in 1981 with theoretical load outs for the upcoming B-1B program.
Which one of these is not like the other?
quellish said:Seeing a B-1B outfitted with ACMs on the external hardpoints... now that's impressive. I wish they would bring the hardpoints back!
SOC said:Hardpoints were deleted to reduce the number of warheads they could be accounted for under START (I was on an inspection team at a B-1B base once, we got to learn all about the START stuff on the airframe so we knew what the Russians would be looking for-forward bay bulkhead had to be locked in the center position as well, to disallow CSRL/ALCM carriage). Since they've been de-nuked, I don't see why they couldn't bring them back. START's about to expire anyway.
SOC said:Hardpoints were deleted to reduce the number of warheads they could be accounted for under START (I was on an inspection team at a B-1B base once, we got to learn all about the START stuff on the airframe so we knew what the Russians would be looking for-forward bay bulkhead had to be locked in the center position as well, to disallow CSRL/ALCM carriage). Since they've been de-nuked, I don't see why they couldn't bring them back. START's about to expire anyway.
XB-70 Guy said:Has anyone seen a B-1B with ordnance attached to external hard points? I for one have not. And I wrote a WARBIRD HISTORY book on it.
Well, page 91 of your book has a photo of 85-0068 with the external AGM-129 semi-conformal pylons on those hardpoints.XB-70 Guy said:Has anyone seen a B-1B with ordnance attached to external hard points? I for one have not. And I wrote a WARBIRD HISTORY book on it.
I have. One book on the B-1 had an extensive set of photos, a quick search in Amazon did not find it though. I'll look around for it, though I won't be able to scan them any time soon.aim9xray said:Well, page 91 of your book has a photo of 85-0068 with the external AGM-129 semi-conformal pylons on those hardpoints.XB-70 Guy said:Has anyone seen a B-1B with ordnance attached to external hard points? I for one have not. And I wrote a WARBIRD HISTORY book on it.
aim9xray said:That would probably be Don Logan's "B-1B, SAC's Last Bomber" published by Schiffer. Page 51 has three color in-flight photos and there is text across four pages describing the AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missile integration effort.
XB-70 Guy said:Has anyone seen a B-1B with ordnance attached to external hard points? I for one have not. And I wrote a WARBIRD HISTORY book on it.