[MilCom] WAS KC-45 Bases; now F-117

[Duane Mantick]

Thank you VERY much for this info!  I had not seen
this information before; will need to compare it to
some of the stores that the F117 could carry.

Duane

--- Declared_Hostile <Declared_Hostile at marktwain.net>
wrote:

> The F-22 in stealthy attack configuration can carry
> 2 GBU-32 JDAMs along 
> with 2 AIM-120s and 2 AIM-9xs or it can carry 8 of
> the new 250 pound 
> GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs along with 2 AIM-120s
> and 2 AIM-9xs.  If 
> in the unlikely scenario in which it wanted to carry
> in an un-stealthy 
> configuration it has 5000 pound wing hardpoints.
> 
> The F-22 has also demonstrated the ability to eject
> the GBUs at 
> supersonic speed and at high altitude which is said
> to substantially 
> increase the standoff range of the weapons when
> compared to launch from 
> other platforms.
> 
> A nearly undetectable  F-22 cruising around your
> airspace at supersonic 
> speeds, at 50,000 feet, punching out 1000 pound
> JADMs or SDBs is as 
> lethal to the enemy as the F-117 ever was if not
> more so.
> 
> DH
> 
> Duane Mantick wrote:
> > ANYthing that flies, for all practical purposes,
> can
> > have a "ground attack capability". A C-130, for
> > example, can kick "fuel-air" munitions out the
> back
> > door; they're HUGE and designed originally to
> clear
> > LZ's for choppers but were found to have, er,
> "other
> > uses". 
> >
> > What I question on the F22 is what can it carry in
> > it's *internal* bays vs. what the F117 could carry
> -
> > if the F22 is to remain stealthy, the external
> areas
> > must remain "clean" *barring* some kind of store
> and
> > pylon that is, by itself, "stealth designed". 
> Anybody
> > seen such a thing? I am aware of things like
> "stealth
> > cruise missile" designs, but everything that I saw
> or
> > had reference to was far too large to be carried
> by
> > EITHER the F22 or F117.  More likely a carry for
> the
> > B2.  
> >
> > The F117 designation was misleading, to be sure. 
> I
> > read a story quite some years back about one
> theory of
> > how that came about.  I'll have to look it up and
> see
> > if I can find that one.  There was some humor in
> that
> > someplace if I'm thinking of the right story....
> >
> > Duane
> 
>
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