It was said that when the first "Puff the Magic Dragon" gunship in Viet Nam was labeled as a FC-47. There was concentrated wail within the Fighter Community that was heard all the way back to WW2.

So it was with the Bomber Community when the first Boeing 777 missile launcher was accepted by the US Air Force and labeled as the B-4. (Supposedly the B-3 is super stealth Bomber that no one knows about, including most of the US Air Force.)

The B-4A is the latest version of a project that was first studied in the 1970's with the Boeing 747 as the carrier. Derived from the Boeing 777 freighter version. The total number of cruise missiles carried is classified. However it is generally reported to be around 24 in the forward bay and 36 in the aft section. The cruise missile type carried is the same as carried and launched from the B-1 & B-52. But with the missiles carried in a larger rotary launcher (one front and two back and with two launch bay doors on each side of the fuselage.) The doors on the bottom of the fuselage are for loading the pre-loaded launch systems.

The China Problem of 2013

In 2004 Hilary Clinton broke her campaign pledge to New York voters and ran on the Democratic ticket for President. Which she won easily, blaming George W. Bush for the nation's ills. Of course the US voters believed her, seeing as only 12% of the eligible voters actually voted. In 2012 she lost her attempt at a third term. (The 22th amendment having been repealed in the fall of 2004 before she took office.)

When a conservative Republican President took office in January 2013. He immediately restored military funding to counter mainland Chinese provocations over Taiwan (an area Clinton had ignored while trying to socialized the US Health Industry during her eight years in office). One of the methods of containment was to slip in B-4A's with about an hour spacing between aircraft flying along the commercial routes between Alaska and Saigon (I mean Ho Chi Minh City) in Viet Nam. Of course the Chinese knew they were there, But knowing which one was not easy. Considering that air traffic in the far east between the US and Viet Nam had quadruped since the turn of the century.

In the early morning of May 12th. A mainland Chinese fighter slipped in behind an Sandusky Air Cargo B-777F while it was over the open sea north of Taiwan like they had done for weeks and shadowed the plane as it flew along the airway. Having been alerted by the peoples' intelligence agents that is was really a B-4A. What they didn't know that the B-4A had declared an inflight emergency and landed at Anderson AFB on Guam. The Sandusky Air Cargo then took it's place in the routing. The fighters trailed it from below, however this time a new pilot (from south China) misunderstood the mandarin accented speech of his Squadron Commander and fired a missile into the cargo plane.

Later that week the Peoples Army's air bases along the coast that the fighters had flown from disappeared in the roar of unleashed conventional explosions . It was said a Dragon Industries factory in Shang-hai disappeared also that night. An analyst in the Pentagon having labeled it as military target due to the large quantity of MIG-25s, and MIG-31s built there. Not realizing that they were plastic model kits.

It was said two-thirds of the USAF's B-4A fleet was in the skies during the air attack and amount of cruise missiles flying into Chinese airspace resembled a rush hour in Hong-Kong.

© 2002 by Michael W. Scheel www.qcsms.org