So the U.S uses crappy old prop planes as bombers? - Outbreak (1995) Discussion

[–] nakedsteve 11 years ago

They were dropping a daisy cutter. They won't fit in bombers, They're too big, you have to use transports.

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[–] odoel 11 years ago

Ah i see, still i dont think that one conventional bomb would take out the whole town

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[–] club-shred 11 years ago

The town in the movie had 2,600 people in it. A Daisy-Cutter would totally wipe that town out.

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[–] cedrics 11 years ago

Instant effects up to a square mile, residuals out further than that. If the town is in a bowl, which it looks like it is, it would only magnify the effect, and then blow the whole town out to sea. 1 FAO is enough.

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[–] graham-167 11 years ago

If your country has a jet aircraft capable of carrying a bomb of the size shown, I'd like to see that.

The US did use cargo aircraft to drop very large bombs in Vietnam. See an example of the BLU-82 "Daisy Cutter" being dropped here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_upy14pesi4.

However, the BLU-82 was a conventional explosive; in the movie they are using a Fuel Air Explosive weapon, and in reality there is no such weapon of an extremely large size. All the FAE bombs the US has developed have been the size of conventional bombs, and readily carried be conventional fighters.

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[–] Hanz-Willhelm 11 years ago

They must not have had a big enough budget to pay the air force for fuel and pilot time to cameo in this movie. I'm guessing they would have used a C-130 for this type of drop. I don't even know what that plane was they used.

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[–] trekkie313 11 years ago

I believe the plane used is C-130 Hercules.

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[–] nakedsteve 11 years ago

The plane used in the movie was a C-123, two props instead of four.

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[–] brifitz1980 9 years ago

They must not have had a big enough budget to pay the air force for fuel and pilot time to cameo in this movie.

It's the other way around. The US military wouldn't supply them with any equipment because a main plot point is the military illegally manufacturing a biological weapon and being willing to kill thousands of innocent civilians to cover it up.

That's also why the choppers are Hueys and an OH-6 "Loach" rather than Blackhawks and Apaches. Hueys and Loachs have civilian variants that are privately owned and can be dressed to look like their military counterparts. If anything it probably cost the filmmakers more to have to provide all of their own "military" hardware rather than have the Pentagon's assistance.

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[–] green_dog 10 years ago

Most big F/A bombs need a heavy transport like the Lockheed C-130, which a lot of countries have in their fleets.

I'm curious to know what country you are from. I can tell you what planes would be the best candidate to carry such a huge bomb like the one in the film. Assuming you live in a NATO country or Australia or New Zealand, I'll hazard a guess now and say that your military likely uses some variant of the C-130 to carry big artillery.

Funnily enough, the film used a Fairchild C-123, which were retired from US military service in 1980. I guess that was the biggest plane the movie people could afford?

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[–] the_la_baker 9 years ago

I'm curious to know what country you are from.

Judging by demeanor and avatar(Rob Wells A.K.A. "Ricky" from Trailer Park Boys), I'm going with Canada.

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