North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un said President Donald Trump will "pay dearly" for his address
to the United Nations General Assembly earlier this week.
In the statement, Kim also said North Korea is considering the strongest possible response
to what he called Trump's provocation.
Kim according to The Associated Press said, "I'd like to advise Trump to exercise prudence
in selecting words and to be considerate of whom he speaks to when making a speech in
front of the world".
President Donald Trump, in his first speech to the United Nations, had slammed Kim Jong
Un using his new favorite nickname 'Rocket Man'.
Trump said, referring to the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un:
"No nation on Earth has an interest in seeing this band of criminals arm itself with nuclear
weapons and missiles".
He added, "The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend
itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea."
The US Air force fleet as of 2017 has 3 strategic bombers B-52 Stratofortress, B1B Lancer and
B-2 Spirit "Stealth Bomber".
In this video, Defense Updates analyzes WHY US BOMBER FLEET CAN DESTROY NORTH KOREAN MILITARY
IN A SINGLE DAY?
Lets get started.
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic
bomber.
The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, which has continued to provide support and
upgrades.
The B-52 has been in active service with the USAF since 1955.
As of now, 58 are in active service with 18 in reserve.
Superior performance at high subsonic speeds and relatively low operating costs has kept
the B-52 in service despite the advent of more advanced aircraft.
With regular upgrades, it is expected to serve into the 2040s.
Over its sixty-year lifetime, the B-52's avionics, flight hardware, and weapons systems
have been upgraded.
In 2006, the fleet received a "mid-life" upgrade to its avionics, adding modern processors
and navigation systems.
In 2014, the Air Force gave the B 52 their first new communications system since the
1960s, including full-color LCDs to replace the old cathode ray tube screens.
On the weapons front, the airplanes are due to receive weapons-bay upgrades, enabling
them to hold more smart bombs, and radar enhancements, potentially including the Active Electronically
Scanned Array Systems technology.
The bomber is capable of carrying up to 70,000 pounds (32,000 kg) of weapons, and has a typical
combat range of more than 8,800 miles (14,080 km) without aerial refueling.
This combination of outstanding range and high payload capacity and ability to incorporate
modern weapons makes B 52 apt for strategic bombing missions.
The B1B Lancer is a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber used by the United States
Air Force (USAF).
It is commonly called the "Bone".
Most airplane wing designs are tradeoffs.
Wings are set for low speed stability or high-speed performance, or some middle point.
But even with flap systems and leading edge slats, fixed wings are compromises.
A multi-role aircraft needs more flexibility.
Having variability in the wing configuration has huge advantages in making a single aircraft
adept at multiple missions.
U.S has 100 of these.
B1B has an excellent range of Range: 5,900 mi or 9,400 km.
It has a Service ceiling of 60,000 ft.
The bomber has many design elements, which makes it hard for the enemy radar to detect it.
B1B has 6 external hardpoints for 50,000 pounds (23,000 kg) of ordnance and 3 internal bomb
bays for 75,000 pounds (34,000 kg) of ordnance.
Hence it has a massive payload of 125,000 lb (56,700 kg) internal and external ordnance
combined.
This makes B1B deadly.
For example it can carry
84× Mk-82 Air inflatable retarder (AIR) general purpose (GP) bombs or
81× Mk-82 low drag general purpose (LDGP) bombs or
24× Mk-84 general-purpose bombs 24× Mk-65 naval mines
The B-2 Spirit was developed to take over the United States Air Force's (USAF) vital
penetration missions, able to travel deep into enemy territory to deploy their ordnance,
which could include nuclear weapons.
The B-2 is a flying wing aircraft, meaning it has no fuselage or tail.
The blending of low-observable technologies with high aerodynamic efficiency and large
payload gives the B-2 significant advantages over previous bombers.
Stealth capability provides greater freedom of action as the bomber can evade enemy air
defenses.
U.S has 21 of these.
The U.S. Air Force reports B2's range as approximately 6,900 miles or 11,000 km.
It has an excellent payload too.
B2 has 2 internal bays for ordnance and payload with maximum estimated limit of 50,000 lb
(23,000 kg).
It can carry 16 B61 or B83 nuclear bombs on Rotary Launcher Assembly.
The B61 is a variable yield, kiloton-range weapon.
Tactical versions can be set to 0.3, 1.5, 5, 10, 45, 60, 80, or 170 kiloton explosive
yield and the strategic version has a yield 340 kilotons.
The B83 thermonuclear weapon is a variable-yield gravity bomb.
It is the most powerful free-fall nuclear weapon in the United States arsenal with a
maximum yield of 1.2 megatons of TNT.
For comparison, the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki had a yield of 20 kilotons of TNT
North Korean air defense are good in numbers but not in quality.
The missile defense like SA-2 Guideline, SA-6 Gainful, SA-5 Gammon are all designed in 1960s
and have vintage technology by today's standards.
These systems also may not be in proper working order and the missile availability is expected
to be low.
The B-2 and B1B were designed specifically to evade such defenses, and the relatively
low tech B-52s can simply fire AGM-86 cruise missiles at North Korea from well beyond the
range of the country's air defenses.
North Korea has a fleet of different kinds of fighters, which even includes Chinese derivatives
of very old fighters like Mig 17 and Mig 19.
The MiG-29 is the Korean People's Army Air Force's (KPAF) most modern fighter and it
operates approximately 40 of these.
Though the Mig 29 is a proficient fighter but North Korea has been isolated for long
with very little access to spare parts and other maintenance infrastructure.
Also with no access to foreign air-to-air missiles, because of sanction and no in-house
designs; the Mig 29 is equipped with old weapons technology.
These will be easy prey for US fighter jet escorting the bombers.
With little challenge from air defenses and enemy fighter jets, these bombers can operate
with impunity and the massive destructive power is capable to bring down North Korean
military to its knees in a single day.
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