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From: camelsho@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Seymour)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Air Superiority B-52?
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Date: 21 May 91 06:25:17 GMT
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From: camelsho@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Seymour)


A friend of mine was over the other tonight while I was reading my
daily dose of sci.military.  We got to talking about various air-
craft.  He has heard rumors of all kinds of weird birds, but the
one that really caught my attention was something of an oddball--
the airsuperiorty B-52.

Supposedly, some extra airframes were converted to radar/missile
platforms.  All bomb capacity was converted to either missile
launchers or extra radar.  And the big bird was supposed to
be able to fire "normally groundbased" missiles backwards from
about half of its bays.

What I would like to know is the following:  
1. Was there such a conversion?  If so, anybody got the specs?
2. What kind of role would it fill?  Would it go out as a long
   range antiplane platform to extend protection to an outbound
   bomber fleet?
3. If its not just a myth, where is it now and what was learned
   from the experiment?
4. Anything else you may feel pertinent to this topic.  i.e. anything
   else that may be similar, like a 747 turned bomber as an example.

thanks
james seymour
camelsho@matt.ksu.ksu.edu