As told to “the Russian newspaper” military expert, chief editor of the magazine “Arsenal Fatherland” Victor murakhovski, the Bomber B1-B was launched by the Americans from the nuclear force and is equipped with only conventional weapons. “Now the fleet of these aircraft has about 60 pieces, for these aircraft invented subsonic anti-ship missile AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, one bomber can carry up to 24 of these missiles,” – said the expert.
According to him, the bomber B1-B has greater range, and in theory the plane could fly from the U.S. to fly to the Black or Baltic sea and to carry out the launch on our ships.
However, in practice, to perform such a launch and fly with impunity, almost impossible to believe murakhovski. “If in peacetime, these bombers have the capability to make such flights in international airspace, including flying over the Baltic sea or in the latter case, over the Black sea, who will give them to stagger in time of war,” – said the expert.
He noted that high-altitude plane that simply revealed by means of our defenses, including over-the-horizon radar that can see in about 2-3 thousand miles of air and sea targets.
in addition, according to Murakhovsky, to ensure that the aircraft fired a missile on such a complex goal, like a ship that’s constantly moving to the correct coordinates. This data reports the bomber satellite constellation. “This satellite constellation has not worked we have provided electronic warfare if those tools are included and suppress the possibility of enemy intelligence and other means to suppress the navigation system that use the bombers, then the problem of destruction of ships becomes very elusive.”
He said that Russian electronic warfare and air defense will detect the flight of the bomber and simply will not allow it on distance of missile launch. “To fly the bomber over international waters of the Black sea in time of peace are valid, but in the case of a hypothetical conflict just suicidal,” believes Grytsenko.
