They still do, and are slated to for a really long freaking time yet. The B-52 is more of a cruise missile/standoff weapon launching platform than anything since it's a slow, high-altitude bomber. It's also able to carry nukes.
The B-1 is more of a "general purpose" conventional bomber that was designed to evade surface radar stations by hugging the terrain. It's kinda sorta nuclear-capable, but had enough issues that the EMP from its own gravity nukes would turn it into a $250 million lawn dart (due to insufficient shielding, largely by design since it was supposed to be lightweight and fast). The START treaty with the USSR (and later Russian Federation) mandated that the external hard points be removed from the B-1, as well as disallowing the use of nukes. Kind of a moot point, since a B-1 carrying nukes is a one-way flight anyway, and the hard points contributed to structural problems (because a jet that big goes through a lot of stress when it hits supersonic speeds).
The B-1 is unreliable as shit because Rockwell Collins designed the airframe mostly on Friday afternoons when the break room was out of coffee, and at great expense. It's the predecessor to the F-35 grift, except the B-1 actually flies once or twice before it suddenly needs half of its avionics replaced or its backbone welded back together.
well that's just silly. put a timer on the b-1's nuke detonator so it has time to get away! 'muh air-burst' bruh its a nuclear fucking bomb im sure it'll do enough damage to kill us all anyway :think-mark:
oh and i get the op now the b-1 is the one that breaks, you weren't touting it as the studier model
:cat-confused: i was under the impression they still used b52s, why would it break?
They still do, and are slated to for a really long freaking time yet. The B-52 is more of a cruise missile/standoff weapon launching platform than anything since it's a slow, high-altitude bomber. It's also able to carry nukes.
The B-1 is more of a "general purpose" conventional bomber that was designed to evade surface radar stations by hugging the terrain. It's kinda sorta nuclear-capable, but had enough issues that the EMP from its own gravity nukes would turn it into a $250 million lawn dart (due to insufficient shielding, largely by design since it was supposed to be lightweight and fast). The START treaty with the USSR (and later Russian Federation) mandated that the external hard points be removed from the B-1, as well as disallowing the use of nukes. Kind of a moot point, since a B-1 carrying nukes is a one-way flight anyway, and the hard points contributed to structural problems (because a jet that big goes through a lot of stress when it hits supersonic speeds).
The B-1 is unreliable as shit because Rockwell Collins designed the airframe mostly on Friday afternoons when the break room was out of coffee, and at great expense. It's the predecessor to the F-35 grift, except the B-1 actually flies once or twice before it suddenly needs half of its avionics replaced or its backbone welded back together.
well that's just silly. put a timer on the b-1's nuke detonator so it has time to get away! 'muh air-burst' bruh its a nuclear fucking bomb im sure it'll do enough damage to kill us all anyway :think-mark:
oh and i get the op now the b-1 is the one that breaks, you weren't touting it as the studier model
Yeah, it's definitely the "80's sports car" model.