{"id":194462,"date":"2008-09-21T05:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/21\/boeing-shows-off-bomber-proposal-at-afa-convention\/"},"modified":"2008-09-21T05:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T10:52:00","slug":"boeing-shows-off-bomber-proposal-at-afa-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/21\/boeing-shows-off-bomber-proposal-at-afa-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Shows off Bomber Proposal at AFA Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, now we have some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Acfe7ae59-0e54-40e3-a40a-55be78ed725c\">models of the competing Boeing and Northrop Grumman concepts to compare<\/a>:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img207.imageshack.us\/img207\/8461\/2b149b42f83f4df3b9a57d1mg9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img207.imageshack.us\/img207\/3462\/4af7686348104f9fa178339wj4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Boeing Above<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img221.imageshack.us\/img221\/1906\/9717dd43bd07420c80eaf54os4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Northrop Grumman Above<\/p>\n<p>Both are clearly designed with stealth in mind, and Boeing&#8217;s design is rather similar to the B-2, though they have made comments about laminar flow designs to reduce drag.  The outer wings, given their narrow chord would likely be laminar flow naturally.<\/p>\n<p>N-G&#8217;s design looks as if it would more easily accommodate a large weapons bay, which might make it easier to carry ultra heavy bunker busters.<\/p>\n<p>Based on my estimates of scale, both appear to carry less in the way of bombs than a B-52 (20-30 tons), and more in line with something along the line of the B-47 (10-15 tons).<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that given miniaturization of nuclear weapons, and the available of relatively small guided weapons, a larger capacity is considered redundant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, now we have some models of the competing Boeing and Northrop Grumman concepts to compare: Boeing Above Northrop Grumman Above Both are clearly designed with stealth in mind, and Boeing&#8217;s design is rather similar to the B-2, though they have made comments about laminar flow designs to reduce drag. The outer wings, given their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}