Elmshoot wrote:

Just saw something on the news about a B-52 doing CAS. 100 plus GPS bombs
dropped from 30,000 feet.

More likely they were referring to the B-2 dropping 80 Mk. 82 JDAMs; go he

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030917/cgw043_1.html

Unless the Buff has been upgraded _very_ recently, IIRR only the pylons have the
1760 interfaces that allow target coordinates to be downloaded to the JDAMs,
limiting them to a maximum of 18 (9 per pylon). Internally, the Hs not only lack
the interfaces, but the bomb bay holds a maximum of 27 Mk. 82 500-lb. or M117
750-lb. bombs (bomb weights are nominal, and actual weights are higher in both
cases). The bomb bay could be modified to hold up to 84 Mk. 82s or 42 M117s, as
was done with the 'Big Belly' mod to the 'D' models during the Vietnam war, but
it's extremely unlikely that they will do so, and even if they did it might not
be possible to install the interfaces in any case.

Guy