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Dagon
08-30-2004, 02:35 PM
Couple weeks ago I watched Inventions that changed the world: Jet from BBC. There was a brief part about chopping down hundreds of B-52 bombers with gigantic guillotine. This happened accordring to START-treaty and was done in the open field so the russians could watch it from their satellites. I would like to see more pics/vids from this event. The best I've come up with is this report from Boeing.

http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/doingbiz/environmental/TechNotes/TechNotes1999-05.pdf
AFACadet
08-30-2004, 03:02 PM
No pics, but makes me sad...

:(
buckeyedoc
08-30-2004, 03:36 PM
I wish they would let people buy aircraft from the "Boneyard." Talk about a kid in a candy store. The "BUFF" as the B-52 is known, is one heck of an aircraft.

RIP
Trigger
08-30-2004, 04:56 PM
Here you go Dagon:

It's a Link (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/the.bomb/route/06.amarc/) to a page with some Quicktime videos of the guillotine in action and a decent description of the AMARC facility.
Enjoy.
Midav
08-30-2004, 05:20 PM
http://www.1-2-3-gaestebuch.de/smilies/015.gif

The HORROR!!!!!
Dagon
08-30-2004, 05:23 PM
The "BUFF" as the B-52 is known, is one heck of an aircraft.

RIP

How true. The icon of Cold War. But then again, the remaining B-52 bombers
have planned service age up to 2040. I can't think of any other piece of military hardware that comes even close.

ps. I had hard time watching the videos too.
Dagon
08-30-2004, 05:54 PM
Learned so far: It was not that they were surplus nor at the end of their service age, they were chopped because they were capable of carrying nuclear payload.
Heres another article:
http://marina.fortunecity.com/havana/287/buffsdie.htm
Trigger
08-30-2004, 05:59 PM
Yeah, what did that old timer say in the vid? Each BUFF was the equivalent of 10 warheads.
FallenAngel
08-30-2004, 07:05 PM
Learned so far: It was not that they were surplus nor at the end of their service age, they were chopped because they were capable of carrying nuclear payload.
Heres another article:
http://marina.fortunecity.com/havana/287/buffsdie.htm

not really. They were scrapped as part of an Arms-reduction treaty with Russia in 1991.

If it were because they can carry nukes, most of the air force and navy would have to be scrapped. ;)
soma
08-31-2004, 12:46 AM
Do the states do the same thing with Soviet bombers/missles? I imagine they do it anyways, but officially, on the record.
szr
08-31-2004, 12:55 AM
The planes are cut then left out for 90 days for Russian satellites to verify their dismantlement. I think the same is done after a nuke silo is destroyed. They leave the rubble for 90 days.
jlanni
08-31-2004, 11:30 PM
a sad sad bunch of pictures.. seeing those pictures makes my heart sink knowing all that money was wasted, knwing how much the b52 is still used :-(
Romulus
08-31-2004, 11:39 PM
Anyone else cry watching this?

Horrific man, just Horrific.








;)
jlanni
08-31-2004, 11:41 PM
here i ran in to this

http://www.terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=10&X=2581&Y=17786&Z=12&W=2&ref=F|B-52+Aircraft%2c+Davis-Monthan+AFB%2c+Tucson%2c+Arizona

unzoom to see just how many aircraft they have there... and yes you can see the remains of a couple B-52's