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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Filzy's Tech Specs: B-1 Lancer | ||||
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| Filzy Stand up straight Stomach in Shoulders back SOUND OFF!!! | posted on 10-09-2001 @ 5:15 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00  | As a Model kit builder I tend to collect alot of reference books and surf the internet about aircraft and armor. So, I figure I share. B-1B LANCER - STRATEGIC BOMBER, USA The B-1B Lancer was developed by Rockwell International, now Boeing Defense And Space Group, and is the US Air Force Long Range Strategic Bomber. The B-1B has the largest internal payload of any current bomber. The B-1B became operational in 1986 and there are about 95 currently in service. WEAPONS The B-1B does not currently carry nuclear weapons. The aircraft has three internal weapon bays and six external hardpoints under the fuselage. The maximum internal weapons payload is 75,000 lb and maximum external weapons payload is 59,000 lbs. The internal weapons bays are capable of carrying the AGM-86B Air Launch Cruise Missile (ALCM), the AGM-69 Short Range Attack Missile and the JDAM Joint Direct Attack Munition. The external hardpoints can carry the AGM-86B ALCM. The aircraft is certificated to carry the AGM-69 nuclear strategic stand-off missile but it is not currently carried. The bomb payload of the B-1B includes the Mark 82 general purpose 500lb bomb. It can also carry up to 30 Textron Sensor Fuzed Weapons (SFW). SFW has ten anti-armour submunitions, each with four Skeet warheads. The B-1B can also carry the 500lb Mark 36 Mine and the 500lb Mark 62 Sea Mine. COUNTERMEASURES The AN/ALQ-161 defensive avionics suite provides jamming against early warning radars and the fire control radars of missiles and anti-air guns. The processing algorithms are installed on an IBM AP-101F digital computer. The system also incorporates Northrop Grumman jamming transmitters, Raytheon phased array antennas and a tail warning pulse Doppler radar which gives rear facing hemispherical coverage. The system's countermeasures include dispensers for expendable decoys including chaff and flares. The ECM suite is to be upgraded with the AN/ALR-56 radar warner and the Integrated Defensive ECM suite (IDECM),developed for the F/A-18 fighter aircraft. The upgrade is due to be completed by 2007. RADAR The Northrop Grumman APQ-164 Offensive Radar System is a multi-mode radar with an electronically scanned phased array antenna which provides high-resolution terrain mapping, velocity data, beacon modes, terrain avoidance, terrain following, position data, weather detection, rendezvous and calibration modes. NAVIGATION AND COMMUNICATIONS The aircraft has Honeywell ASN-131 radar altimeter, Singer Kearfott inertial navigation system, Teledyne Ryan APN-218 Doppler radar Velocity Sensor (DVS), Honeywell APN-224 radar altimeter, Rockwell Collins ARN-118 TACAN Tactical Air Navigation system and Rockwell Collins ARN-108 Instrument Landing System (ILS). The communications suite includes ASC-19 AFSATCOM satellite communications, Rockwell Collins long range ARC-190 HF radio, AlliedSignal KY-58 secure voice line-of-sight encryption device, Rockwell Collins ARC-171 UHF line-of-sight communications radio system, ARR-85 secure or open line-of-sight system and APX-101A IFF (Identification Friend or Foe). ENGINES The B-1B is equipped with four 30,000 pound thrust class F101-GE-102 turbofan engines from General Electric. An in-flight refuelling receptacle allows refuelling from a KC-10 or a KC-135 tanker. Crew four: pilot, copilot and two system operators, offensive and defensive Dimensions Wingspan with wings swept 78 feet Wingspan with wings forward 137 feet Length 147 feet Height 34 feet Powerplant four General Electric F101-GE-102 turbofan engines, 30,000 pound thrust class Weapons conventional and nuclear Performance 59 world records for speed, payload, distance, and time-to-climb Maximum speed supersonic and high subsonic for low altitude penetration Range unrefuelled intercontinental Maximum operating weight 477,000 pounds Tanker support compatible with KC-135 and KC-10 Time-to-Climb records for the C-1Q weight category, over 330,000lb to altitude 10,000 feet 1 min 59 seconds to altitude 20,000 feet 2 min 39 seconds to altitude 30,000 feet 3 min 47 seconds to altitude 40,000 feet 9 min 42 seconds Time-to-Climb records for the C-1Q weight category, 170,000 - 220,000 lb to altitude 10,000 feet 1 min 13 seconds to altitude 20,000 feet 1 min 42 seconds to altitude 30,000 feet 2 min 11 seconds to altitude 40,000 feet 5 min 01 seconds Time-to-Climb records for the C-1Q weight category, 220,000 - 330,000 lb to altitude 10,000 feet 1 min 19 seconds to altitude 20,000 feet 1 min 55 seconds to altitude 30,000 feet 2 min 23 seconds to altitude 40,000 feet 6 min 09 seconds  There are 3 types of leaders and heroes. Some are born leaders, some are built from the ground up by experience, and some are the right people at the right time. Now accepting two recruits for the revived Armored Division. | ||||
| Opie's Sack Lunch | posted on 10-09-2001 @ 7:39 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | ...Is that good? What are the specs on the Lil' Rascal, I hear thats a bitchin' unit also. | ||||
| barch97 BBTB The barch gots lots a dick I kind of enjoy my anonymity on the board WOW Forum Ambassador | posted on 10-09-2001 @ 8:01 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Jul. 00 | quote:and, yet we had to borrow a plane from the rooskies to bring our spy plane back from china?  Long Live the "Syndication Underground" | ||||
Nay. We are but men. ROCK. The man with the plan. | posted on 10-09-2001 @ 8:08 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: quote: Bomber. Not cargo plane.  Me droogies: Noellevious.... she's made me so proud. Two positions available. Come and get one in the yarbles.... if you have any yarbles. | ||||
| danked Dankarella! | posted on 10-09-2001 @ 8:18 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 00 | heh heh, follow that logic | ||||
The sky is blue | posted on 10-09-2001 @ 8:43 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Oct. 00 |  Wanna be the coolest kid on your block? Get an 'I love Froy t-shirt!' Add it to your sig today! Email me at [email protected] | ||||
| disgustip8ed | posted on 10-09-2001 @ 9:31 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Mar. 01 | the coolest thing about the B-1B is its capability to read the terrain and fly at 500mph at 300 ft. Dusting camels and dirty sand monkeys all the way. It can fly itself through valleys and across virtually any terrain on auto-pilot. What better to sneek up on Ahab the Arab with and kill him. God bless America and Jack Northrop. 'Wear your crutch like a crown of negativity. Calculate what we will not tolerate. Desperate to control, all and everything. Unable to forgive, Scarlet letterman.' MJK | ||||
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