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From: jwstuart@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jesse William Leo Stuart)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Air Superiority B-52?
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Date: 4 Jun 91 14:33:01 GMT
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From: jwstuart@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jesse William Leo Stuart)


	Why not make an Airspace Control System platform out of a B-52?
The F-14's radar can track 12 targets and with the Pheonix missle can
kill four of them.  With AMRAAM a B-52 with radar similar to the F14's
could store dozens of Pheonix and AMRAAM, both of which are fire and
forget, and be quite a formidable flying superfortress.  The AWACS
system can independantly track hundreds of targets AND control fighter
squadrens to intercept them, as the Isrealis showed in the invasion of
Lebanon this is quite potent (kills around 95, losses).  If three
B-52's were armed with an AWACS like radar that could also supply
infor- mation to Phoenix missles (not very hard to accomplish - this
would just be a data transfer that takes at most a few hundredths of a
second) and each B-52 held 36 Phoenix missles, they could have achieved
the same results, theoretcally

Also you could have one B-52 doing AWACS tracking, while two or three
responce B-52s, armed with Phoenix, and AMRAAM or other fire and forget
missles, taking care of the actual shooting could be quite a force to
reckon with.  Since we have dozens of B-52s sitting out in the deserts
in the 'Aircraft GraveYards' we could outfit them without building new
air frames.

	[Aren't those old air frames getting pretty close to end off
	 life cycle, though?  --CDR]

Just a thought.

Jess Stuart
@CSU Chico CA