Yep, the B-1 is a real piece of ****...

Aww, did I hurt your feelings? I'm sorry, circa 1995 the B-1B was relatively
useless suffering from problems in its conventional munitions upgrade program
and a horrible MC rate. They have, fortunately, fixed many of the problems.

Responsible for over 10% of the DMPIs struck in OIF with less than 1% of the
sorties...

Whatever....who gave you those numbers anyway?

9.4 DMPIs struck per sortie...

So?

Went downtown Baghdad and Tikrit everyday, even in broad daylight, sometimes
with no SEAD support...

Wow!!! Really??? Uhh, you do realize nearly everyone did that right?

MC rate better than many aircraft during OIF...

Great job, first legitimate achievment you've quoted so far.

"The weapon of choice"--CAOC Director

LOL.....yeah, we've got several quotes in the BUFF world as well that we use to
pat ourselves on the back, they don't really mean much more than your MWS some
how impressive one of the *numerous* CAOC directors working the floor at PSAB.

Hope you had a good laugh back then...


Gimme a break. You take yourself (and your jet) far too seriously. In 1995
there were serious concerns about the future of the B-1B. At the time all they
could deliver were Mk-82s and CBU-87s, the latter suffering from several
problems. At the same time the Bone was capable of delivering just Mk-82s, it
was touted by someone in the Pentagon as the; "back bone of the bomber force".
Needless to say this didn't go over well in the BUFF world and having a Bone
show case an aborted takeoff right in front of visiting Russian aircrew, would
have been funny even if the anaolgy with the Blackjack hadn't been drawn.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"