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Can anyone identify these aircraft?

  • 16-07-2005 3:20am
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    Son_of_Belial
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    I'm not sure if this is the place to put this but it's the closest I've found. I was mucking about on Google's maps and looking at satellite pics of various places when I stumbled upon this high res. image of Nellis US Air Force Base, Nevada (incidentally where most of the US nuclear tests were carried out). I can say with almost complete certianty that these four planes aren't SR71Blackbirds. They look suspiciously like B-1B Lancers which are long range bombers, which are also accustomed to carrying a nuclear payload I might add. The four aircraft in the satellite image are roughly 40m long with an almost equal wingspan. Any comments? Does anyone know for certain what these are? Elsewhere on the base I can see some C-130 Hercules cargo planes and some small coloured things to the south of these that look like various small fighter-jets of some description. There are two helicopters there as well, I'd hesitatingly identify them as AH-64 Apaches, but I'm not sure. Again, can anyone put me right on what type of choppers those are and what those little fighters might be?


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