Drones over major U.S. Bomber Base
The Ukrainians have destroyed numerous Russian Bombers on the ground at their bases; there is a need for vigilance to ensure this does not happen to the U.S. Air Force
Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana is where most of the remaining B-52H Bombers reside when they are not forward deployed to Anderson AFB in Guam, Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean or at Minot AFB, North Dakota.
There are roughly 70 B-52H Bombers still in combat coded status out of the 102 built. Perhaps 10 are in the Boneyard and could be re-generated in a number of months into a flying status.
What remains of the three headed, Iranian Monster is looking for targets of opportunity. It is not hard to place Barksdale on a list of targets of interest.
In Cold War Days, the roughly 750 B-52 Bombers were usually distributed in 15 aircraft squadrons across many bases to provide a healthy dispersion.
However that is expensive to keep many bases open with only a small number of aircraft.
The bean counters like to group the smaller, current number of Air Force aircraft in large numbers at a smaller number of bases to keep costs down.
The Russians endured hard lessons and have lost a high percentage of their feeble bomber force on the ground due to drone strikes.
The bomber bases were often 500 or more miles away from Ukraine. The Russians seemed to think that the long distance would protect the bombers. The bombers were often grouped administratively together with minimal dispersion of the aircraft on the ground. They made easy targets for Ukrainian drones.
It is also unfortunate that the United States chose to virtue signal with the 193 B-52G bombers, and they sit at the Boneyard in Tucson with their wings neatly clipped off to demonstrate they are unflyable to Russian Satellites to comply with a Treaty that does not really exist anymore.
It would be an expensive engineering drill to re-attach the B-52G wings. However, the Air Campaign continues and hopefully someone is doing creative thinking on how to put the B-52Gs back together again.
Where is Elon when we need him?
Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana - a large number of B-52s casually parked in peacetime, administrative fashion before the Iran campaign. Not a good idea when Iran is trying to figure out a way to strike back.
The Russians have less than 70 bombers (I’m being generous) in service with no industrial capacity to produce more. They have been caught on the ground multiple times, far away from Ukraine. Here is one of their few TU-95 Bear Bombers being destroyed.
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Given the effectiveness // efficiency of current day drone technology, I sure hope the DOW is plowing big $$$ into anti-drone measures. Every time I see a shipping connex, sitting in a storage yard or in transit on a truck, I can’t help but think of how easy it would be for a worthy adversary to deploy these lethal devices within our country, probably fairly easy at a minimal cost(?).
Erik Prince says netting can be deployed to take down one or more drones for inspection. We will soon have lasers (if we don't already) that can zap them. We need better (or any?) defenses for our homeland assets, and quit grouping them all together in a handy formation our enemies can target. Focus on the threats and counter them. Blessings.