70 Percent of the Targets Changed in Flight, the B-2 Pilot Said Afghanistan, 2001 #iran #usairforce

In October 2001, on the way from Missouri to Afghanistan, the two pilots of the B-2 Spirit of America re-entered the target coordinates for most of their 16 JDAMs in flight. By the time they neared the coast of Pakistan, pilot Melvin Deaile later said, 70 percent of the targets they had carried from Whiteman had changed. Following Deaile's and Brian Neal's own accounts, the historian Daniel Haulman and RAND's Benjamin Lambeth, this short follows the stale target list, Combat Track II and the thousands of keystrokes. Lambeth called the 44.3-hour sortie the longest air combat mission ever flown. The whole flight — the five tankers, the changed targets, the call and the last four bombs — is in the main film (about 10 minutes): [main film link — added after upload] Sources · Daniel L. Haulman — "44 Hours," Air & Space Forces Magazine, November 21, 2016 · Mel Deaile — "Inside the Longest Bombing Run Ever," United Service Organizations (USO), December 10, 2014 · John A. Tirpak — "B-2s Were Needed in Afghanistan," Air Force Magazine, October 19, 2016 · David Roza — "15 Tons of Bombs and 1 Tiny Toilet," Air & Space Forces Magazine, June 25, 2025 · Benjamin S. Lambeth — Air Power Against Terror, RAND MG-166, 2005 The 3D scenes are a directed reconstruction built from the records with carved models, not footage. The narration is a synthetic voice. #shorts #B2Spirit #JDAM #44Hours #Afghanistan #USAirForce #MilitaryHistory #SANDTABUL SANDTABUL · Warfare, set out on the sand table. Battles, operations and the machines of war, re-staged in carved 3D and placed in the world that shaped them.