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(CNN) - With almost 3 million members in service, 4,800 defense sites on seven continents and an annual budget of more than US $ 700,000 million, the US Army It is considered the main fighting force in the world.
Here is a look at some of their most important weapons.
B-52 bombers
An American official said Tuesday that six of the eight-engine mass bombers would be sent to Diego Garcia air base in the Indian Ocean.
There are about 75 B-52 in the active and reserve fleets of the US Air Force. They can transport a mixed load of 35 tons of ammunition that includes bombs, mines and missiles.
The aircraft, which entered service for the first time in 1952, have been updated over the years to transport cruise missiles launched from the air. Each B-52 can carry 20 cruise missiles.
Once released from the bomber, cruise missiles use an internal guide and their own turbo fan motors to fly and attack independent targets with warheads of up to 1,360 kilograms.
The B52 bomber first entered service in 1952 and has been updated over the years to transport cruise missiles launched from the air.
B-2 stealth bombers
Heavy bomber with bat wings can carry conventional and nuclear weapons. The U.S. Air Force 20 fleet It operates from the Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, but they can leave bases like Diego Garcia or Guam Island in the Pacific.
In a conventional conflict, the four-engine B-2 can carry two GBU-57 massive artillery penetrators, the largest non-nuclear bombs in the US arsenal.
These bombs of 13,607 kilograms and 9 meters long, are designed to attack deeply on the ground to take out missiles and command complexes that are out of reach of other non-nuclear weapons.
The B-2 can also carry a variety of other weapons and has been tested in conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Stealth B-2 bombers have been tested in battle in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
B-1 bombers
The four-engine bombers, of which the US With more than 60 in its fleet, they can carry the largest payload of any aircraft in the Air Force (more than 34,019 kilograms), cruise missiles, gravity bombs and naval mines.
In the past, B-1s have been widely used to launch joint direct attack ammunition, essentially free-fall bombs with guide systems attached to their tails, which can place them within 5 meters of their target.
B-1 bombers can carry the largest payload of any aircraft in the U.S. Air Force fleet.
F-22 stealth fighters
U.S. Air Force It has about 180 F-22, considered the most capable fighter aircraft of the force.
In addition to its ability to cope with the best that fighter aircraft enemies have to offer, the stealthy F-22 can carry two joint direct attack ammunition and radar-guided air-to-ground missiles.
In the early days of any conflict involving US forces, the F-22s, with their ability to remain undetected by enemy radar, could be expected to point at air defense sites, opening airspace for attacks of tracking less stealthy planes and cruise missiles.
F-22 stealth fighters can remain undetected by enemy radar.
Guided missiles and attack submarines
U.S. Navy It has dozens of submarines that can remain submerged and potentially launch hundreds of Tomahawk cruise missiles to land and sea targets.
The most capable of these submarines, four Ohio-class guided missile submarines, can carry up to 154 Tomahawks.
Each of these missiles, armed with a 453 kilogram warhead, can achieve independent targets up to 1,609 kilometers from its launch site.
In addition, each missile can carry information about 15 objectives in its guidance system, which allows it to change its destination in flight.
In addition to the submarines of the Ohio class, the US Navy ships. and those of the Los Angeles type, more than four dozen of them, can transport the Tomahawks, although in smaller numbers.
Ohio class submarines such as the USS Michigan can carry up to 154 Tomahawk missiles.
Aircraft carrier
There are 11 active aircraft carriers in the US Navy fleet, 10 of the Nimitz class and one of the Ford class.
While those numbers seem large, only three or four are likely to be ready for battle at any time.
As of Monday, the US Naval Institute showed a carrier, the USS Harry Truman, in the Middle East.
An F / A-18 fighter plane aboard an American aircraft carrier.
Freighters may contain more than 60 aircraft each, including F / A-18 fighter jets, with a combat range of more than 2,300 kilometers, carrying two air-to-ground missiles each.
In addition to carriers, the Navy operates nine amphibious assault ships, which are essentially small aircraft carriers.
These ships carry the newest fighter aircraft of the US Army, the F-35B poacher of the Marine Corps. The F-35B can carry two guided bombs with a combat radius of approximately 805 kilometers.
Like freighters, it is likely that less than half of these ships are ready for combat at any time. One, the USS Bataan, is near the Middle East, according to the USNI fleet tracker.
The USS Curtis Wilbur is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer.
Destroyers and cruises
The fleet of cruise ships and guided missile destroyers of the US Navy It can operate in conjunction with aircraft carriers in aircraft carrier attack groups, or independently.
The destroyers of the Arleigh Burke class are more than 70 in active duty and form the backbone of the Navy fleet. Each can transport up to 56 Tomahawk cruise missiles to attack land and sea targets.
The Ticonderoga class cruises also carry cruise missiles, although in smaller numbers than the destroyers.
Both ships provide the Navy with its most advanced missile defense system, AEGIS. The system, which communicates objective information between several platforms, can target low-level ballistic missiles that threaten ships, or even targets on land.
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