Is it reasonable to expect that the B-21 will be able to use small diameter bombs for CAS?
>>29230853
Why even care?
>>29230862
Heated internet argument on another site. Somebody is claiming that the LRSB will use small diameter bombs for CAS.
>>29230853
Maybe, but it'd be more useful for hitting a crapton of targets over a long mission.
>>29230853
Is there even any requirement to use the BATO in such a way?
>>29230875
Practical or not doesn't matter. All that matters is whether it is POSSIBLE or not.
>>29230894
Don't see why it wouldn't. Even the B-2 can carry the smallest of JDAMs.
>using a VLO aircraft with a high cost per hour to perform CAS when we still have B-1 Lancers in the arsenal
but why
The LRSB's mission includes tactical level bombing, so yes.
Unlikely to be doing it regularly due to per hour flight costs, though.
>>29230936
The B-21 will eventually replace the B-1. Not for a very long time, but it will eventually happen.
>>29230873
plausible? no. possible? probably.
>>29230936
>High cost per hour
What makes you think it will cost any more to operate than the B-1?
>>29231261
History
>>29230997
Depends on just how many they produce, the B1 was supposed to replace the B52 and look how that turned out
>>29231261
It will be new, retard.
>>29231955
The cost to keep an aircraft in the air increases as the airframe ages and becomes more maintenance intensive.
>>29232108
And newer shit costs more to maintain, seemingly regardless of how simple or complex it actually is.
>>29230853
The purpose of the B-21 is not for dropping bombs, but rather it is for a more economical means for space travel to the Lunar and Martian colonies until all the kinks are worked out with the Hadron Collider Teleportation device.
>>29232143
B-1's aging swing wings are a fucking nightmare. B-21 is mostly off-the-shelf tech to cut costs. It'll be cheaper
>>29230853
It's replacing B-52 so yeah it will. It will integrate it if doesn't have it already.
>>29230894
That's a stupid fucking question then.
>>29232143
newer shit costs more because it usually DOES more and has MORE equipment in it
>>29233617
and it breaks less often because it's new.
>>29230862
Because you can probably fit like 80 of 'em in it.
>We Ace Combat nao
