What was B-70 bomber's bomb load ?

[Mike]

The B-52 could carry about 27 tons of conventional bombs.

What about the never put into production B-70 bomber ? I've always
wondered what its bomb load was. Was that information ever released ?

[Tex Houston]

"Mike" > wrote in message
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> The B-52 could carry about 27 tons of conventional bombs.
>
> What about the never put into production B-70 bomber ? I've always
> wondered what its bomb load was. Was that information ever released ?

The Air Force Museum site says up to 50,000 pounds carried internally.

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research/bombers/b5/b5-63.htm

Tex Houston

[Thomas Schoene]

Mike wrote:
> The B-52 could carry about 27 tons of conventional bombs.
>
> What about the never put into production B-70 bomber ? I've always
> wondered what its bomb load was. Was that information ever released ?

The numbers I found were roughly 20,000 lbs (9 tons) of bombs. Clearly not
in the same class as the BUFF when it comes to payload.

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/research/xb70/

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special about bravery." -- Andy Rooney (attributed)

[R]

"Tex Houston" > wrote in message
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>
> "Mike" > wrote in message
> m...
> > The B-52 could carry about 27 tons of conventional bombs.
> >
> > What about the never put into production B-70 bomber ? I've always
> > wondered what its bomb load was. Was that information ever released ?
>
> The Air Force Museum site says up to 50,000 pounds carried internally.
>
> http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research/bombers/b5/b5-63.htm
>
> Tex Houston
>
>

Some infomation I have on the XB-70A is that one test aircraft reached 2019
m.p.h. or mach 3.08 (design speed was mach 3) and one also reached an
altitude 73,980 feet sustained (planned service ceiling was 82,000 feet),
planned bomb load was to be up to 14 free-fall nuc's (no payload weight
given), and a gross take-off weight of 551,150 pounds.

Your milage may vary.

Red Rider

[R]

"Thomas Schoene" > wrote in message
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> Mike wrote:
> > The B-52 could carry about 27 tons of conventional bombs.
> >
> > What about the never put into production B-70 bomber ? I've always
> > wondered what its bomb load was. Was that information ever released ?
>
> The numbers I found were roughly 20,000 lbs (9 tons) of bombs. Clearly
not
> in the same class as the BUFF when it comes to payload.
>
> http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/research/xb70/
>
> --
> Tom Schoene Replace "invalid" with "net" to e-mail
> "If brave men and women never died, there would be nothing
> special about bravery." -- Andy Rooney (attributed)
>
In US measurements that would be 10 tons. We are kind of screwed up on the
weight thing. A ton in everyday usage is sometimes (by civilians) understood
to be 2000 lbs.

But if your a shipper, an engineer, a scientist, or whatever, then you could
be talking about a ton, a short ton, a long ton, SI metric ton, traditional
metric ton, etc.

To keep things simple, we will use the three rules of engineering as taught
at Prudue University.

1. Steel is hard.
2. Stone is heavy.
3. You can't push a chain.

Therefore we can compare the bomb load to stone and say that the bomb load
was heavy. Q.E.D.

Red Rider

[robert arndt]

The B-70 would have carried a variety of nuclear and themonuclear free
fall bombs and/or mix of convention bombs up to 25,000 lbs.
The initial strategic specification, however, was for the bomber to
carry 14 B-61 free fall nuclear bombs.

Rob