GOAT US Heavy Bomber?
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My uncle flew the B 29 but the B 52 is the GOAT of all GOATS
The B-29 finished off a war and saved hundreds of thousands of American lives and millions of Japanese ones. And yes @BearsWiin the Red Army invading Manchuria played a major role here as well.
A strong case can be made for the B-52. The service life is w/o peer. It would be like having B-29s still dropping bombs in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
We'll never know how many millions of American lives were saved by heavy the B-52s ready to nuke the Ruskies into oblivion.
But still, it never truly won us a war in the same way the B-29 did.
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GrundleStiltzkin
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There's an interesting story that my History Guysm probably know better, about the Soviets getting hold of 4 B-29s after emergency landings in their territory. They copied them, slavishly, including using imperial measurements when the engineers only knew metric,
I saw a great doc once on this on the history channel. The planes were interned in the USSR when they were still neutral in the Pacific and the Ruskies copied them down to the last nut and bolt. We? first saw them at some air show and were like WTF?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4
GrundleStiltzkin
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Always had a soft spot for the F-111. I mean, Aardvark is a great name for a nuclear harbinger of death. And it's a penetrator[/i], lulz
Medium bomber poll.
Similar story for me. Grand pappy Captain Yella led a company in France, Germany and Austria from Aug '44 to May '45. He didn't have enough points to get out of the service yet so they had him training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands. Then the B-29 did what no other plane had the range and payload to achieve.
The story goes that my father was conceived in a drunken night of VJ Day partying.
GrundleStiltzkin
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Heavy enough
GrundleStiltzkin
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B-36 was a great engineering "betcha we can" effort.
The B 52 won the cold war
Until the B-47 and B-52s came online it was in the only plane with the range and payload to get an H bomb to Moscow.
GrundleStiltzkin
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I am nothing if not a homer.
Built in South Seattle.
Most famous one they made is the Memphis Belle.
Like I could vote for anything else.
Pretty sure my grandmother was a Rosie on those planes.
Lots of stuff won the cold war, but it played a key role.
People also forget the B-52 gave us? the 707 and things have never been the same since. Am I right @Logistics or am I right?
When our missiles were blowing up on the launch pad we had 24/7 coverage via the B 52. The projection of strength was amazing and awe inspiring to the villages around the world