Bombing accuracy used to be measured in hundreds of yards from a drop height of 12,000 feet. Now it is 40,000 feet and they get to choose between drivers side or passenger side window.
@@philipm3173 There are multiple reasons that may lead to that happening. 1) A bomb is released on a target with a low probability of killing civilians, target moves, and gets close to civilians, bomb can't be stopped, ends up killing both civilians and targets. 2) Civilians aren't spotted when the bomb is dropped. For ex: the early Walleye bombs could be guided with accuracy, because the bomb had a camera in its nose cone and displayed the image to the pilot in his cockpit. That doesn't mean that the camera is capable of spotting civilians next to the target from 15 miles away. Or if a bomb is guided with GPS on a stationary target, the bomber could not have the equipment required to tell if civilians are in the area. 3) Military targets are purposefully using civilians as cover. Certain militaries might decide it is better to kill both civilians and important military targets than to let the target walk away and potentially cause more damage. 4) Bad intel says there are no civilians when there are civilians in the area 5) Or governments don't give a damn and purposefully bomb hospitals and refugee camps. See probably one of the best pieces ever made on this topic (different URL to go around age block) youtube.076.ne.jp/watch?v=rCi-2-Flcxk 6) And the list goes on and on... Do note that I am in no way justifying the bombing of innocent civilians and non-combatants. The fact it happens is appalling, and there is nothing more sickening to me than the unnecessary loss of life. For there to be the death of innocent civilians, there must often be multiple mistakes that have to be made that lead to such an event happening. However, I would rather know how these mistakes are made and inform myself about them, rather than criticizing people and not offering solutions to a problem
well its a bit basic isn't it.. JDAM is GPS guidance.. if you chuck 400 of em out of a C5 Galaxy, they will all go where they were Each programmed to go, just as long as they got dropped within range of their target.. Having 1 JDAM go to its target is the same level of amazing as having 10 100 or 1000 go to their target.. It really was a wasteful test to have 100 of them drop 100 inert bombs , it prooved nothing to nobody
Yeah. How does one bomb know his buddies target. That's amazing. Also does the bomber have the ability to launch one bomb per target. Or all 80 at a dozen targets
@@alduff229 An intelligence team uses georectified satellite imagery to determine exact coordinates in 3 dimensions for each target. Actually, for each desired impact point. As in, they determine exactly which corner or window on each building they want to hit. Those coordinates are then uploaded into a data cartridge that goes into the bomber's mission computer. The bomber's mission computer downloads the coordinates to each bomb independently via data cables that connect each bomb to the aircraft. The bomber has to fly the attack from a specific direction, at a specific speed and altitude (which are also all preprogrammed into the mission data cartridge and used by the pilot for their navigation plan), and the attack computer releases each bomb in sequence at the appropriate timing for optimal trajectory onto their target. The bombs all "know" exactly what location they're supposed to fly themselves to, before the bomber even takes off.
Keep in mind those were inert practice boombies. Real deals would have left massive craters and total destruction. This just shows the accuracy of them
Pretty easy to see the game is showing you how earth is generated on the VDU these days. It generates the perfection then dumbs it down with dirty, blurry, black an white filters etc. Like humans. It creates something perfect then apply flaws an defects to the characters model an operation ability. Flaws to cameras probably created the same. What I'm saying is its likely the working cams were designed first as wel.
Quite cynical, ksztyrix. The Government didn't steal my money. I'm obligated to pay. Just not always for what I want! But in this case, it's a cost saver.
At about 3:45 it said 2003 North Grummon Co, so that means it was a 20 year old test. I wonder how much more accurate they are now? Putting one inside of that blue barrel was pretty inpressive, can't imagine getting much more accurate than that.
Well, imagine you have a hardened target, a bunker. You're going to need multiple weapons that will hit the exact same spot. When the first one hits, as the debris is moved out of the way, a fraction of a second later the next one hits, and so on, until you've excavated through many feet of reinforced concrete.
Video shows the real advantage of B2+ JDAM, with one stealth bomber, in one pass, you can do the same damage that would have required dozens of aircraft in times past (bombers, escorts, SEAD, ECM, tankers, etc,) and striking almost without warning
You could win a conventional war in one sortie if you're lucky. Decapitation strikes, enemy defense industry, critical power grid targets, anything you like and they'd probably not know they'd lost until the next morning. No more conventional wars though.
In 1982 the British sent 1 Vulcan bomber to the Falkland Islands to bomb an air field. This required them to use 7 Victor tankers. When the Vulan bombed the runway they hit the runway with one of their bombs. This scrared the Argentinians so much that they moved all their aircraft back to the mainland. One hit out of the whole bomb load. Imagine a B-2 with 80 bombs and all of them hit their targets with pinpoint accuracy. Not a runway but every one hitting a target the size of a car.
But wait, there's more. The b-2 is a long range bomber. It can fly across the Atlantic. with a refeul. It takes two to complete a mission from the U.S, to the middle east, and back.
the black buck raids were a joke.. they burned a tankership worth of fuel and hit nothing of value... it was just the RAF's attempt at getting their participation medal for the war.. if not for black buck they would all have been completely out of the war
@@stijnvandamme76 It was a significant psychological blow for the Argentinians. I don't disagree it was a bit of a showing off mission, but it was also one hell of a statement and a technological feat to pull it off.
That's why Trump ordered that attack on an empty Syria airfield...he (our military) wanted to show them (and the Russians, Chinese and Iranians, etc...) just how accurate our cruise missiles were. I think they fired 50 of them? All but one were direct hits.
I wish they werent "Dummy"/training bombs. I can only imagine how much of an amazing feat of firepower and a light show if they were live JDAM munitions...
Carl Andrews So this drop most cost also 2 million dollar because explosives are cheap it is the elektronics that costs and these JDAM's are the same as the live ones except the explosive part.
Even the inert bombs looked pretty effective, next try dropping 40,000lb of marshmallows. Airport neutralized by suffocating mounds of sugary confectioneries and hordes of hungry honey badgers.
Rook High cross sectional density + sufficient drop height = supersonic terminal velocity = More kinetic energy than is needed to destroy any fighting vehicle. Even most ships could be disabled or destroyed easily with these.
now they have box with several they can drop out the back of a cargo vessel - they separate and do the same, but MUCH smarter controls... and can be reprogrammed in flight.
Yeah this is nuts...I'm watching it and looking at the video quality and aspect ratio and thinking, man this must be 20 years old. Then there's the copyright 2003 Northrop Grumman at the end and I'm like, HOLY BALLS!
They now have a ground launched 50lb bomb that can target your very existence and can be launched from 93 miles away by an MLRS… imagine a ww2 katiusha that had each rocket individually lock on and precision delete you and your armies existence.
Just to put this in perspective a B-1B could do the same with 84 JDAMs. Either could increase on that significantly by using SDBs in lieu of JDAM, and getting better stand-off range to boot.
@Roy Person Looks like we're both wrong. The MER upgrade bumped it to 48 GBU-38s in 2011. I'm guessing the previous limitation of 24 was 8 per rotary launcher, with the JDAMs being up to 2000-pounders. I keep hoping they'll spend the money to enable it to be stuffed to the gills with SDBs.
At the cost of a less capable older airframe that is no longer capable of penetrating the IADS of our international competitors in the age of look down shoot down. A bomber that doesn't need to rely on standoff munitions that can penetrate an enemy airspace at all altitude blocks is worh its weight in gold What good is a few more weapons if your airframe won't ever be able to realistically deploy them against a near peer adversry
The B52 D "high density" package could carry about 148 of these 500lb bombs, on internal clips and two wing-mounted pylons. Of course, they were simple unguided gravity bombs. This system was discontinued in the 70s with the last aircraft being retired in the early 80s, although they keep talking about bringing it back as the platform continues to be used in conventional warfare. It would still not hold as many these days, as the strap-on guidance components of JDAM add a couple of feet to the length of the bomb core.
The old B36 could carry 172 500 pound bombs. Heaviest capacity bomber of all time, the nuclear powered version carried 110,000 pounds of lead shielding around the air cooled reactor. Yes, it trailed hard radiation behind it on all of its test flights. declassified in 1998
@@patrickhorvath2684 The B36 could also carry four of the 12,000-pound Tallboys, four 22,000-pound Grand Slams, or a pair of 44,000-pound T-12 Cloudmakers. A book I read also mentioned the possibility of creating a single 72,000-pound conventional bomb to be carried by removing the walls from all four bomb bays.
The B21 will be able to launch 20+ stealth cruise missiles from a massive range without having to fly anywhere near the target. Not only near undetectable but they wouldn't even have anything in range to shoot it down if it were.
It's a good example of progress in technology in the past 80 years. Imagine how many b 17 would be required to cars 80 jdams and then put that in perspective with how man conventional bombs would be required for the same damage.
@@unhelpfullmedic4758 yeah it was liberation for the people of eastern and southern ukraine when the russians finally stepped in to stop the genocide being committed on the ukranians by their own government. its all about if you want to be brainwashed by mainstream media or not
I wonder if they could drop a few dozen of those on my yard in a straight line and make some fence post holes for me lol. Or they could just drop them all directly on my neighbors shit house!
Darin They would probably shake the soil hard enough to crack the foundation of your house. Also you would need 40ft posts to get some of the posts sticking out on the surface. :)
I wonder it can be used as psychological weapon. You drop 80 inert JDAM's over enemy airfield with message written on the bomb such "Leave the airfield because you won't see message like this in the next drop" and you could get the facility intact. Hell, what would they would think about it 😂
Nah Just even dropping inert bombs with this accuracy is enough to cause substantial damage to any static target And they've only made them more and more accurate Especially lazer guided ones now
These would never be used for psychological effect. Adding explosives doesn't add much to the cost. That said, there's value in dropping inert or semi-inert weapons: to minimize collateral damage. Small Diameter Bombs are now so incredibly accurate that it makes a lot of sense to drop them on things like vehicles, smaller bunkers, or houses with bad guys surrounded by houses with people that are also probably bad but for political reasons we can't say that publicly. The bombs take up less room and weigh less in the aircraft, so more can be dropped on one mission, and they can be just as effective against targets we used to drop much larger bombs on because of lower accuracy.
@@therooster6104 So when? Most of the population is looking at this government with a side eye. I met soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq. They have nothing to say about their honor.
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Considering the speed it was moving and still having all that accuracy of multiple targets simultaneously, it would be fun to be able to see a side view and a line traced of how the bombs started dropping somewhat deliberately but then slowly glide to their targets
They're GPS guided, it doesn't really matter how fast the plane was going. They just steer to the preprogrammed coordinates. You can steer your car all the way across the country via gps guidance and manage to hit a parking lot.
One minute from 40 kft to impact implies an average vertical speed of about 650 ft/s and peak of 1300, probably about mach 1.2 at impact with the horizontal "throw" at M0.8 added in. The bombs don't fly, they fall with style.
Russia's failure is that even though they have technology like this, they don't have the inventory, the funding, the logistics, or a well maintained military like the USA. It's crazy how barely 1.5 years ago they were considered #2 in the world. Now they're a joke with no more smart weapons and helicopters slingshotting unguided rockets to try and get more range
Thomas Pedersen ...Exactly right sir, if we know about it then its probly obsolete or already been countered, all part of keeping the knife edge sharp in anybodys military, of course this was a controlled test so there are a lot of different variables that they're not telling us about, but hopefully they'll be able to get a lot of use out of this weapon system for years to come.
Thewhiplash1231 I get the joke, but only once. Any proper sim player knows that many ground attack aircraft can do an automated ripple fire of their munitions. Set the system to 80 bombs, and press the fun button.
*sigh* I really wish people would educate themselves. The rotary launchers are used for large weapons and/or nuclear weapons. Same with the B-1B. Same with the B-52.
+sferrin2 Except that while the B-52 has a rotary launcher, it's clear from this video that the B-2 does NOT. As shown starting at 1:03, the B-2 uses multiple linear columns for an even greater efficiency and density.
thats the point of JDAm.. it goes where the GPS tells it to go. there is no laser designator involved, no IR sensor or radar.. you can chuck these out of a 747 and they still go where they were programmed to go this 80 x test is just wasteful, it prooved nothing to nobody
Guided munitions are a lot more expensive than the dumb bombs you'd use in a carpet bombing run... but in the end you save money because you only need 1 at this level of accuracy. You are more or less guaranteed to hit your target 99% of the time. And that 1% is still within lethal range of the explosion. Less bombs dropped, less missions needed, less danger to pilots and planes... worth every damn penny we pay for them.
I just absolutely love the fact how this was over 20 years ago, with technology from 20 years ago, and how the results speak for themselves. Meanwhile, you see the tech/reliability our near-peers have present-day, and makes you even more proud of being an American.
People have difficulty putting the size of planes into perspective when they are in the air. The B-2 is a really big plane. It's graceful and looks extremely sleek and thing, but it's a BIG plane. And they pack the ordinance in as tightly as they can to maximize space use.
@@prophecyrat2965the whole point of precision guided bombs (in contrast to the unguided bombs used in WW2) is to hit the baddies while not levelling the whole city around the target in the process. If the goal is killing lots of people, there are other bombs for that which don't need precision.
@P Miller - Considering that the near-misses they showed left craters that touched the side of the targets, it would be REALLY hard to get much better. With bomb blast radius measured in multiple meters (for live bombs) and miss distances of maybe half a meter tops, I would say that was a pretty good attack run.
Not sure how aim can get better, but maybe the munitions themselves? More lethal casings, higher explosive yield per pound? I'm not sure it's worth the expense to pursue "better" in this case.
Now I know why that’s B2 is still used. Man thats some amount of bombs to drop. Also must credit the pilots and crew of the B2 for their skills as well.
Just imagine if you will for a moment, the type of damage a b2 squadron, equipped with conventional jdam weapons could have done to a Target during WWII?
Sadly not nearly as much as you'd think. The bombs are GPS guided, and satellites wouldn't come around for another ten years after WW2, so the JDAM would be a hugely expensive 500lb dumb bomb, with some extra fancy bombing aids to help. If this wasn't the case, a single B-2 could completely level a factory, or a refinery, without fear of being shot back at since it flies so much higher than most any flak gun could reach, and so much faster than anything which could realistically intercept it in the skies
Now that's how I remember JDAM's! Making a dumb bomb very smart! I remember these from Vietnam. Built plenty of tail fin assemblies for Mark III 750 pounders. Cheers from eastern Tennessee
All that ordinance came out of a radar cross section the size of a softball. And it's not even the smallest RCS in the US air force. The F-117 has one the size of an egg, and the raptors the size of a coffee bean. But the B2 is the coolest looking plane ever
the B-2 was designed with a rotary rack launching system, however in the early 2000's during an upgrade program it was given the ability to be converted to carry vertical launch magazines (bomb rack assemblies BRA) like the one seen in this video. before with the rotary launcher it could only carry 16 JDAM's, now when outfitted with the BRA it can carry 80. thats a big jump in ordinance. apparently it can also be converted to carry 2 MOP's massive ordnance penetrators 30,000lbs each. it can carry much more than this showing just how versatile it is. what a machine
Flying wings have a huge volume inside of them, and because the whole thing is a wing with a tremendous amount of lift, they can really load up on weight, too. Anyway, the racks on the B-2 are modular. Any kind of rank can be used inside them, just depends on the mission requirements. Bombs get loaded onto the rack, rack gets loaded into the plane and connected up to the computers.
Only because some dipshit pro-Hamas streamer tries to claim every bomb strike is an Israeli JDAM so his equally braindead teenage followers start looking up videos to confirm their biased conclusion.
Well I thought for sure we'd get to see a run with actual ordinance But it was cool to get to see how much damage was still done just from the kinetic energy of the impact
@@joethepro7018 fine, so maybe only USD $1,000 each for the Mark 82's because no explosives inside. The JDAM kits were still used as they were being tested.
@@scapegoat762 OK, so you are confusing a statement of fact (approximate cost of the ordnance expended in the video) with a protest of the expense ? There is not a word of protest written by me there, buddy.
@@joethepro7018 the practice bombs did not use practivce JDAM guidance packages did they.. its the packages that cost 25 grand.. not the dumb inert practice bombs they bolted the JDam package on
Bombs are skinny. The B2 is super wide so they have enough space inside. The B 52 looks extremely skinny if you compare them to similar sized passenger planes. Doesn't stop it from carrying a lot of bombs because of its length
Incredible accuracy. The enemy combatants would not have much chance for survival. And if the enemy is willing to die for their country or cause, then make that happen
This Bombers can be shoot down from hundreds of miles away. Bombers are going to be obsolute in near future like battleship. Bigger is not always better.
get fucked pretty hard tho, especially when the US was far more superior in almost every way. Oh and if you are trying to say won every battle but lost the war then please don't.
Ahhhh, call themselves civilized but have no manners, just like calling themselves free people but actually have none. Please don't cry, go home with mommy, shoo shoo.
Of these targets only the SAM site is a reasonable choice for the B-2. The B-1B can hit all the rest just as well at less then half the cost to perform the mission, faster response time from a forward base, and less mission turnaround time to strike the next target. There are only a small number of B-2 and they each have a finite max flight hour limit so they should be conserved for missions where they are the best tool for the task.
The B-1B has some measures to reduce radar signature to some degree as well although it is not a true stealth aircraft. It has about 2% of the RCS of a B-52 for comparison although the B-2 is likely at least as far beyond the B-1B as it is beyond the B-52. The B-2 is very stealthy but that comes at a high cost to operate it and long delays on the ground between missions to maintain that stealth. Spending time and money on stealth to bomb targets that have no significant air defenses is a waste. Over the last few decades 99% of bombing missions have been against such targets. Operational efficiency in terms of number of missions and cost of those missions is more important than stealth for most real world bombing after the first few days of war. The B-2 and other stealth aircraft are useful but they are most appropriate to use in the early days of a war to gain air superiority and suppress enemy air defenses. After that, while they can still perform missions effectively the extra cost and lower sortie rates make them less than optimal for the task. A limited amount of cost effective and very low maintenance stealth such as by shaping and durable coatings can be used for modern cost effective bombers but such an aircraft does not yet exist. Some sort of replacement for the B-1B that focuses on speed, operational efficiency, and cost and accept more limited stealth would be welcome. It could complement high stealth high cost future aircraft such as the B-21 very well as each would focus on different missions.
If you have air defense on an airfield, why not just use a B-2 age save a second strike. 80 500lb JDAMs is a lot of boom. Web not just use it in one pass?
Wow, that is excellent. That is great coordination of weapon systems to achieve a highly efficient strike. The height of the B-2 is unbelievable. You wouldn't even see or hear it.
I sort of expected the announcer to include something like, "note that even if we forget to include the explosives, a few of these will totally ruin your day. With explosives, your neighbor's day too."
Funny thing is, this isn't actually far from the truth. The US developed "lazy dog" munitions, which are basically unguided, kinetic projectiles. Despite not having explosives, they can actually pierce the jungle canopy and thin armor. They're also extremely tiny, so an aircraft could carry a massive number of them and completely saturate an area. Basically, cluster bombs, but without the unexploded ordinance being left over.
not really, this information was pretty well publicized. Wouldn't want to rely on Russian intelligence to send the message to Moscow when we can make corporate brochure videos about it lol
Amazing things the USAF was doing twenty years ago.... :) I can't even imagine what they are up to now.... *checks google*.... 14 petawatt pulse laser weapons?!?! WOW!!!
It was like watching a clown car with all those bombs coming out of the B2. I had no idea the plane held THAT much stuff.
I never really understood what the B2 was for until watching this video. One stealth bomber carrying that much ordnance is quite impressive.
Comedic Sketches But it flies as if it's lighter than air.
TAOFLEDERMAUS - 80 lead slugs fired out of a shotgun at once. Imagine the carnage...
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The most impressive thing, it can take off from an airbase and fly all the way around the world in one trip. They are usually 26 hour missions.
Bombing accuracy used to be measured in hundreds of yards from a drop height of 12,000 feet.
Now it is 40,000 feet and they get to choose between drivers side or passenger side window.
Reminds me of the first tv guided missiles used during vietnam. The guys were also talking anout being able to choose which car window to target…
Right so explain to me how they are still 'accidentally' killing children and innocent civilians
@@philipm3173 There are multiple reasons that may lead to that happening.
1) A bomb is released on a target with a low probability of killing civilians, target moves, and gets close to civilians, bomb can't be stopped, ends up killing both civilians and targets.
2) Civilians aren't spotted when the bomb is dropped. For ex: the early Walleye bombs could be guided with accuracy, because the bomb had a camera in its nose cone and displayed the image to the pilot in his cockpit. That doesn't mean that the camera is capable of spotting civilians next to the target from 15 miles away. Or if a bomb is guided with GPS on a stationary target, the bomber could not have the equipment required to tell if civilians are in the area.
3) Military targets are purposefully using civilians as cover. Certain militaries might decide it is better to kill both civilians and important military targets than to let the target walk away and potentially cause more damage.
4) Bad intel says there are no civilians when there are civilians in the area
5) Or governments don't give a damn and purposefully bomb hospitals and refugee camps. See probably one of the best pieces ever made on this topic (different URL to go around age block) youtube.076.ne.jp/watch?v=rCi-2-Flcxk
6) And the list goes on and on...
Do note that I am in no way justifying the bombing of innocent civilians and non-combatants. The fact it happens is appalling, and there is nothing more sickening to me than the unnecessary loss of life. For there to be the death of innocent civilians, there must often be multiple mistakes that have to be made that lead to such an event happening. However, I would rather know how these mistakes are made and inform myself about them, rather than criticizing people and not offering solutions to a problem
@@MB-cv5pz I was about to reply to this, but you did a way better job of covering it. Thank you.
@@philipm3173 incorrect intelligence, or the enemy purposely puts innocent people in harms way; many scenarios where it could happen.
The fact that each JDAM can be independently targeted to hit a different target than the other's in a loadout is freaking amazing.
well its a bit basic isn't it.. JDAM is GPS guidance.. if you chuck 400 of em out of a C5 Galaxy, they will all go where they were Each programmed to go, just as long as they got dropped within range of their target..
Having 1 JDAM go to its target is the same level of amazing as having 10 100 or 1000 go to their target..
It really was a wasteful test to have 100 of them drop 100 inert bombs , it prooved nothing to nobody
Yeah. How does one bomb know his buddies target. That's amazing. Also does the bomber have the ability to launch one bomb per target. Or all 80 at a dozen targets
@@alduff229 the JDAM is GPS guided, bombs can have their own targets.
@@alduff229 An intelligence team uses georectified satellite imagery to determine exact coordinates in 3 dimensions for each target. Actually, for each desired impact point. As in, they determine exactly which corner or window on each building they want to hit. Those coordinates are then uploaded into a data cartridge that goes into the bomber's mission computer. The bomber's mission computer downloads the coordinates to each bomb independently via data cables that connect each bomb to the aircraft. The bomber has to fly the attack from a specific direction, at a specific speed and altitude (which are also all preprogrammed into the mission data cartridge and used by the pilot for their navigation plan), and the attack computer releases each bomb in sequence at the appropriate timing for optimal trajectory onto their target.
The bombs all "know" exactly what location they're supposed to fly themselves to, before the bomber even takes off.
@@bronco5334 wow Putin doesn't stand a chance
Keep in mind those were inert practice boombies. Real deals would have left massive craters and total destruction. This just shows the accuracy of them
That's what I was questioning, makes sense, dayum
Yes, i was shocked at the damage done by what were in essence kinetic weapons.
Imagine the devastation had they been LIVE bombs!
Yes, a good idea too although not as fun without the boom.
Shows the damage of a dud as well. Hard to show accuracy when everything is blown up
No shit
It’s kind of hilarious to think about the fact that you’d still get absolutely glassed by a JDAM even in inert state
*Came for the Fireworks Show, stayed for the dart practice!*
Still impressive
Jart practice!
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It's amazing how far camera tech has come in 20 years. This is like watching something from the 70's and yet its 2003
True, but in this case I'd say it's down to bad compression, like an MPEG made in 2005, the original footage would have been much better
Pretty easy to see the game is showing you how earth is generated on the VDU these days. It generates the perfection then dumbs it down with dirty, blurry, black an white filters etc. Like humans. It creates something perfect then apply flaws an defects to the characters model an operation ability. Flaws to cameras probably created the same. What I'm saying is its likely the working cams were designed first as wel.
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JDAM was a great idea. Turning gravity bombs into guided weapons saved a lot of money. My money.
the GBU-12 is great but being laser guided you cant drop more than one at a time onto multiple targets
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Quite cynical, ksztyrix. The Government didn't steal my money. I'm obligated to pay. Just not always for what I want! But in this case, it's a cost saver.
anyone else wish those were live jdams instead of testing rockets.
At about 3:45 it said 2003 North Grummon Co, so that means it was a 20 year old test. I wonder how much more accurate they are now? Putting one inside of that blue barrel was pretty inpressive, can't imagine getting much more accurate than that.
I mean depending on bomb size it might as well be the same, pretty sure the deviation was already smaller than the blast range
Now we have those terrifying razor bombs. Those things are like the pinnacle of precision tracking.
'bout as accurate. But with _many_ other cool bells and whistles.
Well, imagine you have a hardened target, a bunker. You're going to need multiple weapons that will hit the exact same spot. When the first one hits, as the debris is moved out of the way, a fraction of a second later the next one hits, and so on, until you've excavated through many feet of reinforced concrete.
@@SunnnyDay many many feet, likely as far as you like.
Video shows the real advantage of B2+ JDAM, with one stealth bomber, in one pass, you can do the same damage that would have required dozens of aircraft in times past (bombers, escorts, SEAD, ECM, tankers, etc,) and striking almost without warning
You could win a conventional war in one sortie if you're lucky. Decapitation strikes, enemy defense industry, critical power grid targets, anything you like and they'd probably not know they'd lost until the next morning. No more conventional wars though.
You do realize a B-2 IS a stealth bomber....right?
@@geraldhoffman8565 gee, I wonder why they didnt say that. Oh wait, they did
@@octonoozle, lol, I am vaguely familiar with it.
It would be like Iraq. The warning is your sites suddenly exploding and the TV cutting out.
In 1982 the British sent 1 Vulcan bomber to the Falkland Islands to bomb an air field. This required them to use 7 Victor tankers. When the Vulan bombed the runway they hit the runway with one of their bombs. This scrared the Argentinians so much that they moved all their aircraft back to the mainland. One hit out of the whole bomb load. Imagine a B-2 with 80 bombs and all of them hit their targets with pinpoint accuracy. Not a runway but every one hitting a target the size of a car.
But wait, there's more.
The b-2 is a long range bomber. It can fly across the Atlantic. with a refeul. It takes two to complete a mission from the U.S, to the middle east, and back.
the black buck raids were a joke.. they burned a tankership worth of fuel and hit nothing of value...
it was just the RAF's attempt at getting their participation medal for the war.. if not for black buck they would all have been completely out of the war
@@stijnvandamme76 It was a significant psychological blow for the Argentinians. I don't disagree it was a bit of a showing off mission, but it was also one hell of a statement and a technological feat to pull it off.
@@stijnvandamme76 It’s the thought that counts.
That's why Trump ordered that attack on an empty Syria airfield...he (our military) wanted to show them (and the Russians, Chinese and Iranians, etc...) just how accurate our cruise missiles were. I think they fired 50 of them? All but one were direct hits.
incredible 80 guided bombs at once from 1 bomber...damn.
And all of them were designated to hit a specific target each. Which they did.
And in a single run
At 40,000 feet!
B-2, 80, JDAMN... ;)
. . . and North Korea believes it stands a chance :-D
I wish they werent "Dummy"/training bombs. I can only imagine how much of an amazing feat of firepower and a light show if they were live JDAM munitions...
PillsburyDoughboy yeah, I would have thought so too. That would be amazing fire power!!
I know…that's what I was hoping for. Where's the KABOOM??!
PillsburyDoughboy they wete trying to show how accurate the missile is in this vid
At real bombs costing 25k a piece that would have been a 2 million dollar drop
Carl Andrews So this drop most cost also 2 million dollar because explosives are cheap it is the elektronics that costs and these JDAM's are the same as the live ones except the explosive part.
Even the inert bombs looked pretty effective, next try dropping 40,000lb of marshmallows. Airport neutralized by suffocating mounds of sugary confectioneries and hordes of hungry honey badgers.
Imagine 40,000 lbs. of marshmallows, dropped on target in the desert in 120* heat. Wait 5 minutes... yyuuucckk!
Rook High cross sectional density + sufficient drop height = supersonic terminal velocity = More kinetic energy than is needed to destroy any fighting vehicle. Even most ships could be disabled or destroyed easily with these.
Rook ,it'd be a green war Huh? Haha
.... just use water.
You would need an oil tanker to carry 40K lbs of marshmellows.
Holy Hell.... this is 20 years ago, imagine what they have now....
The stuff that they have now is being tested in Syria, Yemen and Ukraine. Our military has been in a virtual constant state of war since 1991.
now they have box with several they can drop out the back of a cargo vessel - they separate and do the same, but MUCH smarter controls... and can be reprogrammed in flight.
Exactly
Yeah this is nuts...I'm watching it and looking at the video quality and aspect ratio and thinking, man this must be 20 years old. Then there's the copyright 2003 Northrop Grumman at the end and I'm like, HOLY BALLS!
They now have a ground launched 50lb bomb that can target your very existence and can be launched from 93 miles away by an MLRS…
imagine a ww2 katiusha that had each rocket individually lock on and precision delete you and your armies existence.
Just to put this in perspective a B-1B could do the same with 84 JDAMs. Either could increase on that significantly by using SDBs in lieu of JDAM, and getting better stand-off range to boot.
@Roy Person Looks like we're both wrong. The MER upgrade bumped it to 48 GBU-38s in 2011. I'm guessing the previous limitation of 24 was 8 per rotary launcher, with the JDAMs being up to 2000-pounders. I keep hoping they'll spend the money to enable it to be stuffed to the gills with SDBs.
@Roy Person Google "b-1b multiple ejector rack upgrade". Unfortunately it looks like they didn’t do anything with it. :-(
Radar signature of B2 is much less than B1.
@@Lynn-mt5yp And?
At the cost of a less capable older airframe that is no longer capable of penetrating the IADS of our international competitors in the age of look down shoot down. A bomber that doesn't need to rely on standoff munitions that can penetrate an enemy airspace at all altitude blocks is worh its weight in gold
What good is a few more weapons if your airframe won't ever be able to realistically deploy them against a near peer adversry
Insane how many fucking bombs this thing can carry.
The B52 D "high density" package could carry about 148 of these 500lb bombs, on internal clips and two wing-mounted pylons. Of course, they were simple unguided gravity bombs. This system was discontinued in the 70s with the last aircraft being retired in the early 80s, although they keep talking about bringing it back as the platform continues to be used in conventional warfare. It would still not hold as many these days, as the strap-on guidance components of JDAM add a couple of feet to the length of the bomb core.
The old B36 could carry 172 500 pound bombs. Heaviest capacity bomber of all time, the nuclear powered version carried 110,000 pounds of lead shielding around the air cooled reactor.
Yes, it trailed hard radiation behind it on all of its test flights. declassified in 1998
@@MrJest2 I only remember 108. But I'm old now.
@@patrickhorvath2684 The B36 could also carry four of the 12,000-pound Tallboys, four 22,000-pound Grand Slams, or a pair of 44,000-pound T-12 Cloudmakers. A book I read also mentioned the possibility of creating a single 72,000-pound conventional bomb to be carried by removing the walls from all four bomb bays.
So this is what they do with old cargo containers 🤔
if that was you up there flying, would it be considered Chocolate Rain?
They've got small fake cities made out of these things at several of the bomb ranges out west.
They also use them to build housing in some areas...
Finding your comment on a video is the equivalent of collecting nirnroots
These capabilities were amazing 20 years ago. Can't imagine the tech deployed today
Same stuff. GPS is just as accurate as it was back then.
It took awhile, but we can hit moving targets now.
The B21 will be able to launch 20+ stealth cruise missiles from a massive range without having to fly anywhere near the target. Not only near undetectable but they wouldn't even have anything in range to shoot it down if it were.
Imagine these 80 JDAMS were dropped on that Russian convey….
Scary stuff right there
Scary for some, liberation for others. its all how you want to look at it.
making chicken Kiev, from scratch
It's a good example of progress in technology in the past 80 years. Imagine how many b 17 would be required to cars 80 jdams and then put that in perspective with how man conventional bombs would be required for the same damage.
@@unhelpfullmedic4758 yeah it was liberation for the people of eastern and southern ukraine when the russians finally stepped in to stop the genocide being committed on the ukranians by their own government. its all about if you want to be brainwashed by mainstream media or not
Gets my approval 👍
so even with a conventional payload this beast can level an entire airfield in 1 shot? cool
Even with a payload of dummies, it can srsly cripple an airfield. The accuracy is amazing.
Or several city blocks with the right munitions. Or Some large sprawling building complex. Or a large manufacturing plant
@@robertwillis4061Or all three at the same time!
I wonder if they could drop a few dozen of those on my yard in a straight line and make some fence post holes for me lol. Or they could just drop them all directly on my neighbors shit house!
Darin lol
Darin They would probably shake the soil hard enough to crack the foundation of your house. Also you would need 40ft posts to get some of the posts sticking out on the surface. :)
Especially when they are way too loud, please army, bomb my shitty neighbours, thanks!
Darin ha ha Darin they might drop them on your head
Darin: to late, your neighbors already got their request to do you in first.
So 1 B-2 can effectively take out an entire air or other military base in one pass from 40,000 feet. That is amazing and frankly mind boggling.
From 40 miles away. Those are glide bombs.
@@orlock20 And it can take off and land in Virginia
@@plateofshrimp Missouri. The B-2's are stationed at Whiteman AFB.
I wonder it can be used as psychological weapon. You drop 80 inert JDAM's over enemy airfield with message written on the bomb such "Leave the airfield because you won't see message like this in the next drop" and you could get the facility intact. Hell, what would they would think about it 😂
Alpha Adhito you would get even more of a psychological impact on he enemy if they exploded
Alpha Adhito only problem is they have to climb down 15 feet underground to get them. those bomb buried themselves.
Nah
Just even dropping inert bombs with this accuracy is enough to cause substantial damage to any static target
And they've only made them more and more accurate
Especially lazer guided ones now
Or flyers
These would never be used for psychological effect. Adding explosives doesn't add much to the cost.
That said, there's value in dropping inert or semi-inert weapons: to minimize collateral damage. Small Diameter Bombs are now so incredibly accurate that it makes a lot of sense to drop them on things like vehicles, smaller bunkers, or houses with bad guys surrounded by houses with people that are also probably bad but for political reasons we can't say that publicly. The bombs take up less room and weigh less in the aircraft, so more can be dropped on one mission, and they can be just as effective against targets we used to drop much larger bombs on because of lower accuracy.
So proud my dad was a schematic illustrator on the B-2 program, miss my dad he’s passed on now , never get over loosing your pop 💔🙏🏼
Sad to see his own government wipe the honor away from them
@@kaecake9575 Absolutely but it’s not government anymore it’s governance when the American people come to terms with that ,then the fires start
@@therooster6104 So when? Most of the population is looking at this government with a side eye. I met soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq. They have nothing to say about their honor.
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@@kaecake9575 Sorry boob tube didn’t send your message to me until today , cake I wish I had a good answer for you I really do, your comment should be taken seriously by the Americans and thought people would stand by now , this proves to me we live in a land of cowards 🧩
Considering the speed it was moving and still having all that accuracy of multiple targets simultaneously, it would be fun to be able to see a side view and a line traced of how the bombs started dropping somewhat deliberately but then slowly glide to their targets
Next upgrade they knock on the door.
They're GPS guided, it doesn't really matter how fast the plane was going. They just steer to the preprogrammed coordinates. You can steer your car all the way across the country via gps guidance and manage to hit a parking lot.
One minute from 40 kft to impact implies an average vertical speed of about 650 ft/s and peak of 1300, probably about mach 1.2 at impact with the horizontal "throw" at M0.8 added in. The bombs don't fly, they fall with style.
@@r0cketplumberhow long you been in defense? you know your stuff
US: 80 precision strikes in a single attack, almost all direct hits on individual vehicles.
Russia: try to drop 4 bombs on Snake Island, miss 3 😂
Russia's failure is that even though they have technology like this, they don't have the inventory, the funding, the logistics, or a well maintained military like the USA.
It's crazy how barely 1.5 years ago they were considered #2 in the world. Now they're a joke with no more smart weapons and helicopters slingshotting unguided rockets to try and get more range
If that was 2003, I wonder what toys they're playing with now?
The could almost double that with SDBs.
Thomas Pedersen ...Exactly right sir, if we know about it then its probly obsolete or already been countered, all part of keeping the knife edge sharp in anybodys military, of course this was a controlled test so there are a lot of different variables that they're not telling us about, but hopefully they'll be able to get a lot of use out of this weapon system for years to come.
Thomas Pedersen Lasers is what they have moved on to.
Same ones.
Thomas Pedersen Something with a CEP measured in inches probably
Amazing how they could target and glide bombs this accurately at the time but couldnt rotate a recording to appear in right orientation.
They were spot on. Amazing accuracy from that distance and speed.
I wonder how many times he had to press space.
Thewhiplash1231 80 times I'm guessing
Thewhiplash1231 I get the joke, but only once. Any proper sim player knows that many ground attack aircraft can do an automated ripple fire of their munitions. Set the system to 80 bombs, and press the fun button.
Thewhiplash1231 lol. Thanks for that.
He flipped the Turbo switch.
Well, that was impressive! A one plane bomber squadron. Nice work, NG!
It doesn't look like that plane can even hold 80 500 lb bombs! Unreal!
Wright Connection .... i agree, its not real... the B-2 using rotary launcher.
Jonh Darius Delos Reyes Please read the explanation, in the beginning "Smart Bomb Rack Assembly" and at 1:04 you can see it 😉
*sigh* I really wish people would educate themselves. The rotary launchers are used for large weapons and/or nuclear weapons. Same with the B-1B. Same with the B-52.
Wright Connection Lots of hidden space inside!
+sferrin2 Except that while the B-52 has a rotary launcher, it's clear from this video that the B-2 does NOT. As shown starting at 1:03, the B-2 uses multiple linear columns for an even greater efficiency and density.
Dang. I had no idea they could target each bomb to a specific target. That's some next level shit right there.
thats the point of JDAm.. it goes where the GPS tells it to go.
there is no laser designator involved, no IR sensor or radar..
you can chuck these out of a 747 and they still go where they were programmed to go
this 80 x test is just wasteful, it prooved nothing to nobody
Guided munitions are a lot more expensive than the dumb bombs you'd use in a carpet bombing run... but in the end you save money because you only need 1 at this level of accuracy. You are more or less guaranteed to hit your target 99% of the time. And that 1% is still within lethal range of the explosion. Less bombs dropped, less missions needed, less danger to pilots and planes... worth every damn penny we pay for them.
How did you think GPS guided munitions worked? This is what GPS was invented for. Not to take you to the mall.
This is pretty damn impressive and scary at the same time.
I just absolutely love the fact how this was over 20 years ago, with technology from 20 years ago, and how the results speak for themselves. Meanwhile, you see the tech/reliability our near-peers have present-day, and makes you even more proud of being an American.
I just love these matter of fact, straightforward 1960s talking White Guys explaining Pentagon goodies and their accuracy.
Mike Miller - Why's he gotta be white?! Oh, yeah. I guess so he doesn't say, "Dem bombs dun hit day targets fo realz."
It's not what you say...it's how you say it.
Mike Miller love the 60s narrative
The B2 could win WWII at it's peak, by itself, in one sortie.
No GPS satellites and no JP7 fuel in 1944, so it may be difficult.
@@sebekglab No B2s in 1944 either. If we're being pedantic, start with the obvious.
@@Quantiad Indeed, even better point.
The B-2 is Bad Ass!!!
Mike Walsh
The B-2 is Bad Ass!!!
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B-1 lancer is a great plane, tooo
Like F-117 )
I could tell this was going to be a successful test based purely off the accompanying music alone.
Holy shit.. The B2 is brutally lethal. seemed like endless bombs falling out of that thing.
For those of you that are surprised by how much the B2 carries, what did you think BOMBERS did?
Daywalker_27 - You have to admit the B2 doesn't really look like a real bomber that could carry much.
Flying wings always have a TON of space inside them. Well, 25-30 tons, to be more accurate ;-)
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People have difficulty putting the size of planes into perspective when they are in the air. The B-2 is a really big plane. It's graceful and looks extremely sleek and thing, but it's a BIG plane. And they pack the ordinance in as tightly as they can to maximize space use.
Look at the ordinance that the B-52 can carry. Doesn't seem possible either.
This was 2003, imagine how much better it has gotten after 20 years.
The B21 Raider is to the B2 Spirit as an iPhone 14 Pro is to an IBM XT 5160.
Gencodie machines have gotten way better 🦾🤖☢️🔥🏭💀
@@prophecyrat2965the whole point of precision guided bombs (in contrast to the unguided bombs used in WW2) is to hit the baddies while not levelling the whole city around the target in the process.
If the goal is killing lots of people, there are other bombs for that which don't need precision.
I would hope that our aim is even better now, 20 years later.
@P Miller - Considering that the near-misses they showed left craters that touched the side of the targets, it would be REALLY hard to get much better. With bomb blast radius measured in multiple meters (for live bombs) and miss distances of maybe half a meter tops, I would say that was a pretty good attack run.
Not sure how aim can get better, but maybe the munitions themselves? More lethal casings, higher explosive yield per pound? I'm not sure it's worth the expense to pursue "better" in this case.
GPS still works the same way now as it did 20 years ago.
This guy knows the "The missile knows where it is" monologue, I guarantee it.
He might well be the guy who originally said it.
That is a whole lot of whoopass for one aircraft.
Back when TV taught you stuff. This is awesome just imagine what the B-21 Raider can do
Well its smaller, so not as much
This wasn't TV. This is a declassified demonstration video used as a deliverable for a product from a defense contractor to the Department of Defense.
@@portee9113 lol right but it can fly with no pilot lol
@@evrydayamerican it can also act as a stealthy AWACS in a pinch due to its powerful radar and datalink systems.
Now I know why that’s B2 is still used. Man thats some amount of bombs to drop. Also must credit the pilots and crew of the B2 for their skills as well.
these are JDAM guided bombs, not to discredit the pilots but they simply fly the plane, get close and say bye to them, the bombs are GPS guided
Just imagine if you will for a moment, the type of damage a b2 squadron, equipped with conventional jdam weapons could have done to a Target during WWII?
I don't know how about a drop on Chicago
Sadly not nearly as much as you'd think. The bombs are GPS guided, and satellites wouldn't come around for another ten years after WW2, so the JDAM would be a hugely expensive 500lb dumb bomb, with some extra fancy bombing aids to help. If this wasn't the case, a single B-2 could completely level a factory, or a refinery, without fear of being shot back at since it flies so much higher than most any flak gun could reach, and so much faster than anything which could realistically intercept it in the skies
So 1 b2 even with none explosive ordnance can single handedly take a air field off the board game. Solid. I love it.
effin' lolololol. 'Merica, f*ck yeah. The simulated hanger had nearly all the hits in the center cargo container. That was hilarious.
Now that's how I remember JDAM's! Making a dumb bomb very smart! I remember these from Vietnam. Built plenty of tail fin assemblies for Mark III 750 pounders. Cheers from eastern Tennessee
very impressive, but would have been cool to see a live munitions drop of 80 jdams
Nah...why destroy a practice runway with union labor these days.
Dont worry, you and your loved ones will get a front row seat 🦾🤖🔥🏭💀☢️
Even though they were inert,still wouldn't want one hitting my car. 😂
All that ordinance came out of a radar cross section the size of a softball. And it's not even the smallest RCS in the US air force. The F-117 has one the size of an egg, and the raptors the size of a coffee bean. But the B2 is the coolest looking plane ever
Think of the advances in bomb technology in the 20 years since this video was produced. Wow!
Holy crap the b2 can hold 80 jdams😳 I thought it was click bait lol
Damn....80 bombs in that thing?!
I had no idea it could hold that many...
MyCatInABox it can't. But it can only because of a rotating rack.
+Benjamin Sorenson You are wrong. While the B-52 uses a rotary rack, the B-2 does not. Just look again at the video, starting at 1:03.
the B-2 was designed with a rotary rack launching system, however in the early 2000's during an upgrade program it was given the ability to be converted to carry vertical launch magazines (bomb rack assemblies BRA) like the one seen in this video. before with the rotary launcher it could only carry 16 JDAM's, now when outfitted with the BRA it can carry 80. thats a big jump in ordinance. apparently it can also be converted to carry 2 MOP's massive ordnance penetrators 30,000lbs each. it can carry much more than this showing just how versatile it is. what a machine
MyCatInABox, gotta love engineering.
Flying wings have a huge volume inside of them, and because the whole thing is a wing with a tremendous amount of lift, they can really load up on weight, too.
Anyway, the racks on the B-2 are modular. Any kind of rank can be used inside them, just depends on the mission requirements. Bombs get loaded onto the rack, rack gets loaded into the plane and connected up to the computers.
Hamas Piker be like: "I can tell by the sound and the small impacts that those are actually mortars."
Wow. Shit must be getting real out there if the UA-cam algorithm is pulling this gem out of the archive.
Only because some dipshit pro-Hamas streamer tries to claim every bomb strike is an Israeli JDAM so his equally braindead teenage followers start looking up videos to confirm their biased conclusion.
Well I thought for sure we'd get to see a run with actual ordinance But it was cool to get to see how much damage was still done just from the kinetic energy of the impact
JDAM kits cost USD $42,000 each The Mark 82 General Purpose Bomb is USD $2100 each, so that was USD $3,528,000 dollars in ordnance for this test.
They're practice bombs
@@joethepro7018 fine, so maybe only USD $1,000 each for the Mark 82's because no explosives inside. The JDAM kits were still used as they were being tested.
@@mhobson2009 Oh, you're right. They shouldn't have done it. I suggest you contact your Congressman immediately!
@@scapegoat762 OK, so you are confusing a statement of fact (approximate cost of the ordnance expended in the video) with a protest of the expense ? There is not a word of protest written by me there, buddy.
@@joethepro7018 the practice bombs did not use practivce JDAM guidance packages did they.. its the packages that cost 25 grand.. not the dumb inert practice bombs they bolted the JDam package on
0:38 when I go to the bathroom after taco night
Imagine just going about your merry way when all of a sudden, every single structure around you begins to explode.
It goes through you mind just what collateral damage means, and then your it!.
Seeing this 11/23. Knowing it is an 11 years old video, I am sure the precision now is even higher, not that it needs to be.
Had no idea the B2 could hold 80 bombs. I was thinking more like 12 to 15.
Bombs are skinny. The B2 is super wide so they have enough space inside.
The B 52 looks extremely skinny if you compare them to similar sized passenger planes. Doesn't stop it from carrying a lot of bombs because of its length
That's incredible. All this target acusition from one aircraft?!?
Targets in this case would be preplanned and the coordinates dialed in before flight.
Incredible accuracy. The enemy combatants would not have much chance for survival. And if the enemy is willing to die for their country or cause, then make that happen
Its still a wonder why anyone would want to mess with us, with all this capability at our disposal
Freedom is a powerful motivator.
This use of money resulted in more use of money just like it. That’s victory for people who make bombs that never get used.
True fact. A single modern stratigic bomber can do more destruction than an entire Squadron of WW-2 bombers could do in multiple bonding missions.
You have to take down the enemy Airforce first to do this thing.
This Bombers can be shoot down from hundreds of miles away. Bombers are going to be obsolute in near future like battleship. Bigger is not always better.
Ga head, fuck with us.
Tell that the Korean, Vietnamese, Somali...
get fucked pretty hard tho, especially when the US was far more superior in almost every way. Oh and if you are trying to say won every battle but lost the war then please don't.
Ahhhh, call themselves civilized but have no manners, just like calling themselves free people but actually have none. Please don't cry, go home with mommy, shoo shoo.
Kal El, well but big ol china would have pulled a Korea and pushed us back again
This was 20 years ago. They can do the same thing with cruise missiles from a thousand miles away.
Nice, now it can hit 80 different Afghan weddings in one pass!
Cry harder botboi. How many posts do you have to make to get your daily ration of vodka? Do they care if you're a good troll or not?
Aren't the Russians trying to do the same thing right now? They are 25 years behind in terms of technology. Embarrassing.
Of these targets only the SAM site is a reasonable choice for the B-2. The B-1B can hit all the rest just as well at less then half the cost to perform the mission, faster response time from a forward base, and less mission turnaround time to strike the next target. There are only a small number of B-2 and they each have a finite max flight hour limit so they should be conserved for missions where they are the best tool for the task.
The B-1B is an excellent bomber, but the B-2 is stealthy.
Rick Robinson But the B-1 is supersonic.
The B-1B has some measures to reduce radar signature to some degree as well although it is not a true stealth aircraft. It has about 2% of the RCS of a B-52 for comparison although the B-2 is likely at least as far beyond the B-1B as it is beyond the B-52. The B-2 is very stealthy but that comes at a high cost to operate it and long delays on the ground between missions to maintain that stealth. Spending time and money on stealth to bomb targets that have no significant air defenses is a waste. Over the last few decades 99% of bombing missions have been against such targets. Operational efficiency in terms of number of missions and cost of those missions is more important than stealth for most real world bombing after the first few days of war.
The B-2 and other stealth aircraft are useful but they are most appropriate to use in the early days of a war to gain air superiority and suppress enemy air defenses. After that, while they can still perform missions effectively the extra cost and lower sortie rates make them less than optimal for the task.
A limited amount of cost effective and very low maintenance stealth such as by shaping and durable coatings can be used for modern cost effective bombers but such an aircraft does not yet exist. Some sort of replacement for the B-1B that focuses on speed, operational efficiency, and cost and accept more limited stealth would be welcome. It could complement high stealth high cost future aircraft such as the B-21 very well as each would focus on different missions.
But the B-1 has variable sweepwings.
If you have air defense on an airfield, why not just use a B-2 age save a second strike. 80 500lb JDAMs is a lot of boom. Web not just use it in one pass?
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Damn I wonder how well it handles, and how fast it is, and how much fuel it uses when fully loaded like that
All fly by wire, so the handling will be identical regardless of load.
Wow, that is excellent. That is great coordination of weapon systems to achieve a highly efficient strike. The height of the B-2 is unbelievable. You wouldn't even see or hear it.
I love the narration on these things. Just like he's a golf analyst or something . . .
At first i thought holy cow this must've been expensive.... but really the kits costs the same as a tank round
Imagine how many pillows Amazon can deliver with this one beast in an entire neighbourhood!
My God... that's a lot freedom dispensed at once!
So satisfying. And this was 20 years ago!
All of that advanced 21st century directed firepower, and yet it's somehow satisfying that this film feels really 1970's.
Yup almost a decade film release ?
Watching the B-2 dropping 80 bombs, was like watching one of those tiny clown cars, where an endless stream of clowns keep getting out of it!
I sort of expected the announcer to include something like, "note that even if we forget to include the explosives, a few of these will totally ruin your day. With explosives, your neighbor's day too."
Funny thing is, this isn't actually far from the truth. The US developed "lazy dog" munitions, which are basically unguided, kinetic projectiles. Despite not having explosives, they can actually pierce the jungle canopy and thin armor. They're also extremely tiny, so an aircraft could carry a massive number of them and completely saturate an area. Basically, cluster bombs, but without the unexploded ordinance being left over.
This guy sounds like he knows where the missile is.
Didn't know the B-2 could carry 80 FREAKING JDAMS! Thought it would be at MOST 20.
damn, just imagine the awesome hd footage now that they wont release for another decade.
And that was 21 years ago. Imagine what it can do with current upgrades.
That plane dropping those bombs is me in the morning after 2 cups of coffee
It bears reminding that each of these direct hits is from almost 8 miles up. Pretty impressive system.
This is literally 20 year decades old technology as well.
What are they doing now, picking rivets and nuts as targets?
How on earth are these bombs so accurate falling for a minute from 40000 ft? Hands down US engineering.
GPS and inertial guidance. Other nations have duplicated that for of guidance but yeah, it's a US invention.
It works exactly the same way that GPS can guide you and your car 3000 miles across the country to hit a particular parking lot.
@@stargazer7644 thank you 😉
This is friggen nuts, especially when you realize this is old technology
If those weapons were real, there would be nothing left of the entire complex. Outstanding work.
Still impressive in 2023. I wonder what the capabilities are now, 20 years later?
*80* 500 lb bombs.... Jesus. This is a beauty of a war machine.
This was no doubt highly classified back then.
not really, this information was pretty well publicized. Wouldn't want to rely on Russian intelligence to send the message to Moscow when we can make corporate brochure videos about it lol
Amazing things the USAF was doing twenty years ago.... :) I can't even imagine what they are up to now.... *checks google*.... 14 petawatt pulse laser weapons?!?! WOW!!!
Sergeant: Pilot see that location
Pilot: copy removing that location