B-52/Harpoon

(is that a full load BD?)

Believe it or not, its kind of difficult to say what a full load of AGM-84D is
on a BUFF. There are enough stations for 6 per pylon, for a total of 12.
However, there were engine harmonics problems on the G model J-57 engines that
affected the two rear shoulder stations. So...the G model was only certified
to carry 4 per pylon for a total of 8. Now, the H model has entirely different
engines and one could reasonably suspect, entirely different harmonics, however
for years and years we were stuck with 8 total. About the time they started to
seriously discuss removing the weapon from the BUFF inventory (after spending
millions to upgrade the B-52 Offensive software as to permit any B-52 to shoot
Harpoon), they also started discussing new tests for the H model TF-33
harmoincs. I never heard anything beyond that and realistically, the weapon
should just be removed from the BUFF inventory. If there's a ship to be sunk
nowadays, the US Navy doesn't need to, and won't, call on the USAF to sink it
with an AGM-84D.


BUFDRVR

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