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20th April 2023

Post reblogged from Matriarchy and Militarism with 30 notes

loxias:

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Soviet pilot Natalya Meklin-Kravtsova. By the end of WWII, she had flown 982 night missions and dropped an estimated 147 tons of bombs on enemy-controlled territory.

This is about 300lb of bomb dropped per sortie. The smallest dumb bomb in regular USAF use, the Mark 82, weighs 500 pounds, and the F-15E can carry multiple Mk82s on each of 11 hardpoints.

(the Mk82’s Tritonal filling would also create more explosive force pound-for-pound)

Tagged: in practice it would be weird to send one up carrying that much weight and no external fuel tanks

Source: reddit.com