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Power Plant:
• Four Avco-Lycoming gas turbines; 12,280 bhp
• Two shrouded reversible-pitch propellers
• Four double-entry fans for lift
Length: 88 feet
Beam: 47 feet
Displacement: 200 tons full load
Capacity: 60 tons/75 ton overload
Speed: 40 plus knots with payload
Armament:
• 2 - 12.7mm MGs; or
• 2 - M-2HB; or
• .50 cal machine gun; or
• M-60 machine gun
• Mk-19 Mod3 40mm grenade launcher
Crew: 5
Range:
• 200 miles at 40 kts with payload
• 300 miles at 35 kts with payload
Personnel Capacity:
• 24 Troops
• 180 w/PTM
Vehicles per Sortie:
• 12 HMMWVs per sortie
• 4 LAVs per sortie
• 2 AAVs per sortie
• 1 M1A1 per sortie
• 4 M923 per sortie
• 2 M923 5-Ton Trucks
• 2 M198 Howitzers + 2 HMMWVs per sortie
Cost: $12 million
Kiev Class Aircraft Carrier (for the new guy)
Displacement (tons):
• Standard: 36,000 tons
• Full Load: 43,000-43,500 tons
Speed (kts): 32 knots
Dimensions (m):
• 249.5-257.0 meters long waterline
• 273.0-274.0 meters long overall
• 32.6-32.7 meters waterline beam
• 53.0 meters flight deck width
• 9.5 meters draft standard
• 12.0 meters draft mean full load
Propulsion:
• 8 turbopressurized boilers
• 4 steam turbines; 200,000 shp
• 4 shafts
Crew: 1,200-1,600 (including air group)
Armament:
• 2 SA-N-3 Goblet Twin Launchers
• 2 SA-N-4 Gecko Twin Launchers
• 24 SA-N-9 8-cell Vertical Launchers
• 12 SS-N-12 Sandbox
• 4 76.2-mm/59-cal AA (2 twin)
• 8 30-mm/65-cal AK-630 close-in (8 multi-barrel)
• 2 100-mm/70-cal DP (2 single)
• 10 21-in (533-mm) torpedo tubes
Aircraft:
• 12 or 13 Yak-38 Forger VSTOL
• 14 Ka-25 Hormone
• 17 Ka-27/29 Helix
Cost: $750.3 million
Arsenal class destroyer
Armament:
• 500-cell Vertical Launch System (VLS)
• Tomahawk Land-Attack Missiles (TLAMs)
• Army Tactical Missile System
Crew: 50
Design: Low radar signature ("stealthy")
Hull: Double Hull
Length: 500-800 feet
Cost: $500 million
F-16A/B; C/D Fighting Falcon
Primary Function: Multirole fighter
Power Plant: F-16C/D: one Pratt and Whitney F100-PW-200/220/229 or General Electric F110-GE-100/129
Thrust: F-16C/D, 27,000 pounds
Length: 49 feet, 5 inches (14.8 meters)
Height: 16 feet (4.8 meters)
Wingspan: 32 feet, 8 inches (9.8 meters)
Speed: 1,500 mph (Mach 2 at altitude)
Ceiling: Above 50,000 feet (15 kilometers)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 37,500 pounds (16,875 kilograms)
Range: More than 2,000 miles ferry range (1,740 nautical miles)
Armament: One M-61A1 20mm multibarrel cannon with 500 rounds; external stations can carry up to six air-to-air missiles, conventional air-to-air and air-to-surface munitions and electronic countermeasure pods
Unit cost: F-16A/B , $10 million; F-16C/D,$15 million
F-15E Strike Eagle
Primary function: Air-to-ground attack aircraft
Power plant: Two Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-220 or 229 turbofan engines with afterburners
Thrust: 25,000 - 29,000 pounds each engine
Wingspan: 42.8 feet (13 meters)
Length: 63.8 feet (19.44 meters)
Height: 18.5 feet (5.6 meters)
Speed: Mach 2.5 plus
Maximum takeoff weight: 81,000 pounds (36,450 kilograms)
Service ceiling: 50,000 feet (15,000 meters)
Combat ceiling: 35,000 feet (10,500 meters)
Range: 2,400 miles (3,840 kilometers) ferry range with conformal fuel tanks and three external fuel tanks
Armament: One 20mm multibarrel gun mounted internally with 500 rounds of ammunition. Four AIM-7F/M Sparrow missiles and four AIM-9L/M Sidewinder missiles, or eight AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles. Any air-to-surface weapon in the Air Force inventory (nuclear and conventional)
Crew: Pilot and weapon systems officer
Unit cost: $20 Million
B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber
Primary function: Multi-role heavy bomber
Power Plant: Four General Electric F-118-GE-100 engines
Thrust: 17,300 pounds each engine
Length: 69 feet (20.9 meters)
Height: 17 feet (5.1 meters
Wingspan: 172 feet (52.12 meters
Speed: High subsonic
Ceiling: 50,000 feet (15,240 meters)
Takeoff Weight (Typical): 336,500 pounds (152,634 kilograms
Range: Intercontinental, unrefueled
Armament: Conventional or nuclear weapons
Payload: 40,000 pounds (18,144 kilograms)
Crew: Two pilots
Unit cost: Approximately $1 billion
B-1B Lancer Strategic Bomber
Primary Function: Long-range, multi-role, heavy bomber
Operations Air Frame and Integration: Offensive avionics, Boeing Military Airplane; defensive avionics, EDO Corporation
Power plant: Four General Electric F-101-GE-102 turbofan engine with afterburner
Thrust: 30,000-plus pounds with afterburner, per engine
Length: 146 feet (44.5 meters)
Wingspan: 137 feet (41.8 meters) extended forward, 79 feet (24.1 meters) swept aft
Height: 34 feet (10.4 meters)
Weight: Empty, approximately 190,000 pounds (86,183 kilograms)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 477,000 pounds (216,634 kilograms)
Speed: 900-plus mph (Mach 1.2 at sea level)
Range: Intercontinental, unrefueled
Ceiling: More than 30,000 feet (9,144 meters)
Crew: Four (aircraft commander, copilot, and two weapon systems officers)
Armament: 24 GBU-31 GPS-aided JDAM (both Mk-84 general purpose bombs and BLU-109 penetrating bombs) or 24 Mk-84 2,000-pound general purpose bombs; 8 Mk-85 naval mines; 84 Mk-82 500-pound general purpose bombs; 84 Mk-62 500-pound naval mines; 30 CBU-87, -89, -97 cluster munitions. Upon Block E completion, additional weapons available will be 30 CBU-103/104/105 WCMD, 24 AGM-158 JASSMs or 12 AGM-154 JSOWs.
Unit Cost: $280 million
LGM-30 MinuteMan III
Primary Function: Intercontinental ballistic missile
Power Plant: Three solid-propellant rocket motors; first stage - Thiokol; second stage - Aerojet-General; third stage - United Technologies Chemical Systems Division
Length: 59.9 feet (18 meters)
Weight: 79,432 pounds (32,158 kilograms)
Diameter: 5.5 feet (1.67 meters)
Range: 6,000-plus miles (5,218 nautical miles)
Speed: Approximately 15,000 mph (Mach 23 or 24,000 kph) at burnout
Ceiling: 700 miles (1,120 kilometers)
Thrust: First stage, 202,600 pounds
Load: Re-entry vehicle: Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space MK 12 or MK 12A
Guidance systems: Inertial system: Boeing North American; ground electronic/security system: Sylvania Electronics Systems and Boeing Co.
Unit cost: $7 million
AH-64A Apache Attack Helicopter
Propulsion Two T700-GE-701Cs
Crew Two
Length 58.17 ft (17.73 m) 58.17 ft (17.73 m)
Height 15.24 ft (4.64 m) 13.30 ft (4.05 m)
Wing Span 17.15 ft (5.227 m) 17.15 ft (5.227 m)
Primary Mission Gross Weight 15,075 lb (6838 kg)11,800 pounds Empty 16,027 lb (7270 kg) Lot1
Weight Hover In-Ground Effect (MRP) 15,895 ft (4845 m)
Hover Out-of-Ground Effect (MRP) 12,685 ft (3866 m)
Maximum Level Flight Speed 150 kt (279 kph)
Range 400 km - internal fuel 1,900 km - internal and external fuel
Armament: Primary MissionStarboard WingM230 GunPort WingRate of ClimbDurationCombat (Anti-armor)
4 Hellfire320 rds 30mm
4 Hellfire1450 fpm1.8 hours
Multi-role (Covering force)
4 Hellfire 19 FFAR *1200 rds 30mm
4 Hellfire 19 FFAR *860 fpm2.5 hours
Close-support (Anti-armor)
8 Hellfire1200 rds 30mm
8 Hellfire990 fpm2.5 hours
Ground-support (Airmobile escort)38 FFAR *1200 rds 30mm38 FFAR *780 fpm2.5 hours
M230 33mm Gun
70mm (2.75 inch) Hydra-70 Folding-Fin Aerial Rockets
AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missiles
AGM-122 Sidearm anti-radar missile
AIM-9 Sidewinder Air-to-Air missiles
Unit Cost: $23 Million
UH-60L Blackhawk
Length: 64 feet, 10 inches (19.6 meters)
Height: Varies with the version; from 13 to 17 feet (3.9 to 5.1 meters)
Rotor Diameter: 53 feet 8 inches (16.4 meters)
Engines (2) T700-GE-701C Turboshaft 1,940 hp
Weight empty 11,516 lbs.
Mission gross weight 17,432 lbs.
Maximum gross weight 22,000 lbs.
Maximum gross weight (ferry) 24,500 lbs.
Maximum Cruise Speed (MCP) 4000' 95°F 152 kts
Vertical rate of climb (95% MRP) 4000' 95°F 1,550 fpm
Service ceiling (ISA day) 19,150 ft
Hover ceiling (MRP-OGE) 95°F day 7,650 ft
Standard day 11,125 ft
Armament: Usually two 7.62 mm machine guns mounted in the windows; can also be equipped additional .50-caliber machine guns mounted in the doors.
Crew: Usually three or four
Unit Cost: $30 Million
Power Plant:
• Four Avco-Lycoming gas turbines; 12,280 bhp
• Two shrouded reversible-pitch propellers
• Four double-entry fans for lift
Length: 88 feet
Beam: 47 feet
Displacement: 200 tons full load
Capacity: 60 tons/75 ton overload
Speed: 40 plus knots with payload
Armament:
• 2 - 12.7mm MGs; or
• 2 - M-2HB; or
• .50 cal machine gun; or
• M-60 machine gun
• Mk-19 Mod3 40mm grenade launcher
Crew: 5
Range:
• 200 miles at 40 kts with payload
• 300 miles at 35 kts with payload
Personnel Capacity:
• 24 Troops
• 180 w/PTM
Vehicles per Sortie:
• 12 HMMWVs per sortie
• 4 LAVs per sortie
• 2 AAVs per sortie
• 1 M1A1 per sortie
• 4 M923 per sortie
• 2 M923 5-Ton Trucks
• 2 M198 Howitzers + 2 HMMWVs per sortie
Cost: $12 million
Kiev Class Aircraft Carrier (for the new guy)
Displacement (tons):
• Standard: 36,000 tons
• Full Load: 43,000-43,500 tons
Speed (kts): 32 knots
Dimensions (m):
• 249.5-257.0 meters long waterline
• 273.0-274.0 meters long overall
• 32.6-32.7 meters waterline beam
• 53.0 meters flight deck width
• 9.5 meters draft standard
• 12.0 meters draft mean full load
Propulsion:
• 8 turbopressurized boilers
• 4 steam turbines; 200,000 shp
• 4 shafts
Crew: 1,200-1,600 (including air group)
Armament:
• 2 SA-N-3 Goblet Twin Launchers
• 2 SA-N-4 Gecko Twin Launchers
• 24 SA-N-9 8-cell Vertical Launchers
• 12 SS-N-12 Sandbox
• 4 76.2-mm/59-cal AA (2 twin)
• 8 30-mm/65-cal AK-630 close-in (8 multi-barrel)
• 2 100-mm/70-cal DP (2 single)
• 10 21-in (533-mm) torpedo tubes
Aircraft:
• 12 or 13 Yak-38 Forger VSTOL
• 14 Ka-25 Hormone
• 17 Ka-27/29 Helix
Cost: $750.3 million
Arsenal class destroyer
Armament:
• 500-cell Vertical Launch System (VLS)
• Tomahawk Land-Attack Missiles (TLAMs)
• Army Tactical Missile System
Crew: 50
Design: Low radar signature ("stealthy")
Hull: Double Hull
Length: 500-800 feet
Cost: $500 million
F-16A/B; C/D Fighting Falcon
Primary Function: Multirole fighter
Power Plant: F-16C/D: one Pratt and Whitney F100-PW-200/220/229 or General Electric F110-GE-100/129
Thrust: F-16C/D, 27,000 pounds
Length: 49 feet, 5 inches (14.8 meters)
Height: 16 feet (4.8 meters)
Wingspan: 32 feet, 8 inches (9.8 meters)
Speed: 1,500 mph (Mach 2 at altitude)
Ceiling: Above 50,000 feet (15 kilometers)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 37,500 pounds (16,875 kilograms)
Range: More than 2,000 miles ferry range (1,740 nautical miles)
Armament: One M-61A1 20mm multibarrel cannon with 500 rounds; external stations can carry up to six air-to-air missiles, conventional air-to-air and air-to-surface munitions and electronic countermeasure pods
Unit cost: F-16A/B , $10 million; F-16C/D,$15 million
F-15E Strike Eagle
Primary function: Air-to-ground attack aircraft
Power plant: Two Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-220 or 229 turbofan engines with afterburners
Thrust: 25,000 - 29,000 pounds each engine
Wingspan: 42.8 feet (13 meters)
Length: 63.8 feet (19.44 meters)
Height: 18.5 feet (5.6 meters)
Speed: Mach 2.5 plus
Maximum takeoff weight: 81,000 pounds (36,450 kilograms)
Service ceiling: 50,000 feet (15,000 meters)
Combat ceiling: 35,000 feet (10,500 meters)
Range: 2,400 miles (3,840 kilometers) ferry range with conformal fuel tanks and three external fuel tanks
Armament: One 20mm multibarrel gun mounted internally with 500 rounds of ammunition. Four AIM-7F/M Sparrow missiles and four AIM-9L/M Sidewinder missiles, or eight AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles. Any air-to-surface weapon in the Air Force inventory (nuclear and conventional)
Crew: Pilot and weapon systems officer
Unit cost: $20 Million
B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber
Primary function: Multi-role heavy bomber
Power Plant: Four General Electric F-118-GE-100 engines
Thrust: 17,300 pounds each engine
Length: 69 feet (20.9 meters)
Height: 17 feet (5.1 meters
Wingspan: 172 feet (52.12 meters
Speed: High subsonic
Ceiling: 50,000 feet (15,240 meters)
Takeoff Weight (Typical): 336,500 pounds (152,634 kilograms
Range: Intercontinental, unrefueled
Armament: Conventional or nuclear weapons
Payload: 40,000 pounds (18,144 kilograms)
Crew: Two pilots
Unit cost: Approximately $1 billion
B-1B Lancer Strategic Bomber
Primary Function: Long-range, multi-role, heavy bomber
Operations Air Frame and Integration: Offensive avionics, Boeing Military Airplane; defensive avionics, EDO Corporation
Power plant: Four General Electric F-101-GE-102 turbofan engine with afterburner
Thrust: 30,000-plus pounds with afterburner, per engine
Length: 146 feet (44.5 meters)
Wingspan: 137 feet (41.8 meters) extended forward, 79 feet (24.1 meters) swept aft
Height: 34 feet (10.4 meters)
Weight: Empty, approximately 190,000 pounds (86,183 kilograms)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 477,000 pounds (216,634 kilograms)
Speed: 900-plus mph (Mach 1.2 at sea level)
Range: Intercontinental, unrefueled
Ceiling: More than 30,000 feet (9,144 meters)
Crew: Four (aircraft commander, copilot, and two weapon systems officers)
Armament: 24 GBU-31 GPS-aided JDAM (both Mk-84 general purpose bombs and BLU-109 penetrating bombs) or 24 Mk-84 2,000-pound general purpose bombs; 8 Mk-85 naval mines; 84 Mk-82 500-pound general purpose bombs; 84 Mk-62 500-pound naval mines; 30 CBU-87, -89, -97 cluster munitions. Upon Block E completion, additional weapons available will be 30 CBU-103/104/105 WCMD, 24 AGM-158 JASSMs or 12 AGM-154 JSOWs.
Unit Cost: $280 million
LGM-30 MinuteMan III
Primary Function: Intercontinental ballistic missile
Power Plant: Three solid-propellant rocket motors; first stage - Thiokol; second stage - Aerojet-General; third stage - United Technologies Chemical Systems Division
Length: 59.9 feet (18 meters)
Weight: 79,432 pounds (32,158 kilograms)
Diameter: 5.5 feet (1.67 meters)
Range: 6,000-plus miles (5,218 nautical miles)
Speed: Approximately 15,000 mph (Mach 23 or 24,000 kph) at burnout
Ceiling: 700 miles (1,120 kilometers)
Thrust: First stage, 202,600 pounds
Load: Re-entry vehicle: Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space MK 12 or MK 12A
Guidance systems: Inertial system: Boeing North American; ground electronic/security system: Sylvania Electronics Systems and Boeing Co.
Unit cost: $7 million
AH-64A Apache Attack Helicopter
Propulsion Two T700-GE-701Cs
Crew Two
Length 58.17 ft (17.73 m) 58.17 ft (17.73 m)
Height 15.24 ft (4.64 m) 13.30 ft (4.05 m)
Wing Span 17.15 ft (5.227 m) 17.15 ft (5.227 m)
Primary Mission Gross Weight 15,075 lb (6838 kg)11,800 pounds Empty 16,027 lb (7270 kg) Lot1
Weight Hover In-Ground Effect (MRP) 15,895 ft (4845 m)
Hover Out-of-Ground Effect (MRP) 12,685 ft (3866 m)
Maximum Level Flight Speed 150 kt (279 kph)
Range 400 km - internal fuel 1,900 km - internal and external fuel
Armament: Primary MissionStarboard WingM230 GunPort WingRate of ClimbDurationCombat (Anti-armor)
4 Hellfire320 rds 30mm
4 Hellfire1450 fpm1.8 hours
Multi-role (Covering force)
4 Hellfire 19 FFAR *1200 rds 30mm
4 Hellfire 19 FFAR *860 fpm2.5 hours
Close-support (Anti-armor)
8 Hellfire1200 rds 30mm
8 Hellfire990 fpm2.5 hours
Ground-support (Airmobile escort)38 FFAR *1200 rds 30mm38 FFAR *780 fpm2.5 hours
M230 33mm Gun
70mm (2.75 inch) Hydra-70 Folding-Fin Aerial Rockets
AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missiles
AGM-122 Sidearm anti-radar missile
AIM-9 Sidewinder Air-to-Air missiles
Unit Cost: $23 Million
UH-60L Blackhawk
Length: 64 feet, 10 inches (19.6 meters)
Height: Varies with the version; from 13 to 17 feet (3.9 to 5.1 meters)
Rotor Diameter: 53 feet 8 inches (16.4 meters)
Engines (2) T700-GE-701C Turboshaft 1,940 hp
Weight empty 11,516 lbs.
Mission gross weight 17,432 lbs.
Maximum gross weight 22,000 lbs.
Maximum gross weight (ferry) 24,500 lbs.
Maximum Cruise Speed (MCP) 4000' 95°F 152 kts
Vertical rate of climb (95% MRP) 4000' 95°F 1,550 fpm
Service ceiling (ISA day) 19,150 ft
Hover ceiling (MRP-OGE) 95°F day 7,650 ft
Standard day 11,125 ft
Armament: Usually two 7.62 mm machine guns mounted in the windows; can also be equipped additional .50-caliber machine guns mounted in the doors.
Crew: Usually three or four
Unit Cost: $30 Million