The American bombing task, which targeted 3 nuclear facilities in Iran, was a huge days ago, which required B-2 bombers to work in the air for 37 hours.
In this task, 7 ghost bombers, each of which carried two individuals, without stopping back and forth, in one of the longest air strikes in modern military history.
How can the pilots of these bombers be able to withstand the atmosphere all this period?
sleep
Melfin J. Del, retired colonel in the Air Force, who was a member of the B-2 crew who carried out a 44-hour mission in Afghanistan in 2001, said that during his period of work at the Wittman Air Force Base in the state of Missouri, the task qualified pilots were trained in long periods of simulations to help them organize their sleep courses, but this training usually continued only 24 hours, and the longest air sort was Del carried her 25 hours before his standard journey, according to the network: «C. that. that”.
He pointed out that members of the launchers were giving sleeping pills to help them rest in the days before the bombing.
The policy followed during the Del era required the individual crew, and their presence in their seats during the critical moments of the trip, including taking off, refueling, bombing and landing.
In the decisive hours, the individuals took turns sleeping in a small bed behind the cockpit seats.
“Each crew could take a break for approximately 3 or 4 hours between refueling,” said Del.
He added: «Sleeping may be difficult in these circumstances; As anyone is fighting a battle definitely suffers from anxiety, but in the end it will get a rest that your body will need. ”
Amphetamines
Amvitamins are alarms for the central nervous system, and Del said that the doctor was giving them these pills before the trip to keep their alertness throughout the task.
But he pointed out that this could have changed at the present time; His experience has passed more than two decades.
Toilet
The B-2 plane, which is manufactured by the company “Northrop Gruman”, is one of the most expensive and most developed bombers, but putting toilets in it is primitive, according to Del.
The retired colonel indicated that this plane uses a chemical toilet (a mobile toilet that uses chemicals to treat human waste), but the two pilots only use it in “the most urgent emergency situations” to avoid its fullness.
He added, “There is no separation between the toilet and the pilots. Maintaining your privacy depends on the other pilot not looking at you. ”
But the high altitudes and compressed driving moon may cause drying of pilots, and drinking water was very important.
Del estimated that he and the other pilot who had a bottle of water every hour. They were in “bags of urination” full of cat sand.
Dell and the other pilot spent their time by calculating the amount and weight of the urine bags that accumulated.
Food
Del says that the pilots during his service days were attending some food with them, and they were also providing them with meals prepared to eat them while flying.
He indicated that he was not hungry much; “Because sitting is still for dozens of hours does not cause you to burn much energy.”
The “Ghost-2” bombers are a symbol of military power and technological excellence, with their ability to hit any goal in the world with the escape from monitoring systems.
This super plane was designed during the Cold War period to be a nuclear missile launcher, and it is one of the most expensive aircraft ever; Where the cost of one plane ranges between 737 and 929 million dollars.
