Convair B-58 Hustler

[Orionblamblam]

Good thing they didn't name it the "B-58 Set."

"Set set the set, then set the set on the set."

 

[BlackBat242]

A little bit on Project Bullseye

http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=63

"The B-58 had four 'hard' points (two on each wing) where bombs could be slung.

Replying to an 11-year-old post, but...
Not really on the wing... more the wing root.

They were designed for standard tactical nuclear gravity bombs - but conventional ones could be carried.





A couple of photos of the one at the SAC museum in Nebraska:

 

[RetiredAFGuy]

A little bit on Project Bullseye

http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=63

"The B-58 had four 'hard' points (two on each wing) where bombs could be slung.

Replying to an 11-year-old post, but...
Not really on the wing... more the wing root.

They were designed for standard tactical nuclear gravity bombs - but conventional ones could be carried.

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A couple of photos of the one at the SAC museum in Nebraska:

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I have to wonder were there ever considerations to carry AGM-69 SRAMs in place of the B-61s? Years after the B-58's retirement there was a concept to use A-12s or SR-71s carrying SRAMs as "nuclear Wild Weasels" to knock holes in the Soviet long range radar network for following B-52s.

If the B-58s had SRAM capability they certainly could have filled that roll owing their far greater numbers than the limited numbers of Blackbird airframes SAC was loath to release from recon duty.

 

[BlackBat242]

That would be an interesting possibility.

I like it!

Of course, in that case it would likely be B-70s they were blasting holes in the air-defense net for, rather than B-52s!