For the planefags this is cool: The US Air Force just used its oldest bomber to attack Iran
(www.militarytimes.com)
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From a social media post:
THE B-52 SIGNAL: The U.S. Air Force just sent a message to the world—not through a press release, but through aircraft selection. The arrival of the B-52 Stratofortress over Iran marks a definitive shift in Operation Epic Fury. To understand the gravity, you have to understand the sequence of the last 96 hours.
Military strategists use specific tools for specific phases of a campaign. Here is the timeline of the "Big Wave":
Feb 28 (The B-2 Spirit): Stealth is required. $2.1 billion per aircraft. You send the B-2 when air defenses are lethal and intact. They dropped 160,000 lbs of bunker-busters on hardened underground sites.
March 2 (The B-1 Lancer): Speed over stealth. You send the supersonic B-1 when defenses are degraded. These conducted the deepest raids since 2003.
March 3 (The B-52): The "Giant Barn." It’s 70 years old, subsonic, and visible on every radar on Earth.
The takeaway? You only send the B-52 when there is nothing left to shoot it down.
By the Numbers: Quadrupling the Firepower
The transition to the B-52 isn't just symbolic—it's a massive escalation in payload: Strike Capacity: The U.S. has 76 B-52s compared to just 20 B-2s. We just quadrupled our available heavy bomber strike capacity.
Payload: Each B-52 carries 70,000 lbs of ordnance per sortie.
Intensity: 1,700 targets struck, 300 new sites added. The campaign is intensifying, not tapering
Dear Commander-in-Chief President Trump and Secretary Hegseth,
This sounds like a joke but it's not: Can we please, please, please have a B-29 Superfortress join in the fray plus a P-51, P-47 and a P-38 strafe ground targets? Video in high def. Doesn't even have to be a risky mission. Object is to send a SYMBOLIC message worldwide; optical equivalent of US Mil beating Globalism with one hand tied behind its back. Remember the Yuge impact of simply Potus manning a Garbage Truck. Consequences if successful: reminds everyone of WHO WE ARE, demoralizes the enemy, implodes every leftist on Earth... making Patriots jubilant worldwide, reconnecting them with our history, helping to restore national pride, bringing people to remember why our forefathers fought and died, and why we will proudly salute the American Flag, One Nation Under God.
Love, Adoring Frogs Everywhere
That would be so badass.
Consider yourself John Hancock on this letter and I will be Josiah Bartlett.
Excellent, Smithers.