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John Taylor's avatar

And the reason Israel wants us to participate, is because they don’t have the heavy bombers needed to carry this massive non-nuclear bunker busting bomb of ours.

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Tony Verow MD's avatar

It really does seem to be a very sharp dividing line. Fighters have a very prescribed mission, size and range. A bomber is all about delivering a large payload very far away. Very few countries have (or had) the ability to churn out large numbers of long range bombers.

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Elly Kay's avatar

Love the props.

In Russia, the you don’t drop the bomb. The bomb drops you.

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John Townsend's avatar

The turboprop bomber used for the Czar Bomb test was the Tupolev Tu-95 "Bear". The Myasischev M-4 "Bison" was jet powered.

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