"G.R. Patterson III" wrote:
You mean like the losses the B-29s took bombing Japan?

The Japanese air forces were too decimated and technologically too
inferior for effective interception of the fast, high flying B-29s. That
would not have been the case with B-36s vs. Soviet air power.

At one time, we could have launched over 30 B-36s at any given moment.
So only 10 of them reach their targets.

That is by no means certain, given the vast distances the B-36s would
have had to fly unescorted.

He would certainly be worried about the fact that the odds were good
that
he'd be in one of them.

He would have had a long time to get out of town.

The B-36 always struck me as a flying
porkbarrel project propelled by Curtis LeMay's ego.

It was the only plane capable of carrying nuclear weapons into
the USSR that could possibly reach production in a few years.

What about the B-29 (and B-50)? We had a lot more of them, and there
were plenty of runways in Europe they could use, which was not the case
with the B-36.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM