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05-20-2004, 12:31 AM
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| Not stealthy. But ECM jams more that just missles. If the fighter's radar is being jammed it will have a lot of difficulty homing in on the B-52.
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05-20-2004, 06:05 AM
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Country:  | Propaganda figures of 1/100th. It's 1/20th. Anyway, the ECM on the B-52 isn't that good. The main defence of the B-52 is its decoys which will make out that there is more than one B-52 confusing RADAR guided missiles, and the enemy planes RADAR.
If the enemy plane decided to come to take it down with cannon the B-52G and H both are equipped with 20 SRAM air to air missiles.
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05-20-2004, 01:06 PM
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| SRAM: Short-Range Attack Missile. It was a short ranged tactical nuclear missile. I don't see how that will be useful against a fighter.
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05-21-2004, 10:46 AM
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Country: | My bad, it can carry 20 Boeing AGM-69A SRAM (Yes, air to surface thermonuclear) but in air to air defence it can carry 12 air to air missiles on under-wing pylons, I imagine they will be ASRAAM or AIM-9 missiles, but I don't actually know.
The T-171 20-mm gun in the rear was going to be removed but was kept, even in the H series B-52.
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05-21-2004, 01:11 PM
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| The USAF dropped out of the ASRAAM program so it's not those (they are going with a suped-up AIM-9, the AIM-9X). I still have never seen anything about the B-52 carrying air-to-air missiles. I imagine targeting them would cause some trouble.
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05-22-2004, 10:34 AM
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Country: | I have to find more concrete evidence on them doing so, as I've never actually seen a picture with them carrying any.
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05-22-2004, 12:23 PM
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| The B-52 had a rear-mounted radar used to target its rear guns. I suppose a rear-facing missile could have its seeker head slaved to the radar to produce a target lock. Still, I've got my doubts.
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05-22-2004, 02:19 PM
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Country: | it's all very well saying the B-52 can carry Air-to-Air missiles, there's nothing it can't carry, but what if you don't have any? they're very rarely carried...................
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