So the U.S uses crappy old prop planes as bombers?

They were dropping a daisy cutter. They won't fit in bombers, They're too big, you have to use transports.

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If your country has a jet aircraft capable of carrying a bomb of the size shown, I'd like to see that.

The US did use cargo aircraft to drop very large bombs in Vietnam. See an example of the BLU-82 "Daisy Cutter" being dropped here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_upy14pesi4.

However, the BLU-82 was a conventional explosive; in the movie they are using a Fuel Air Explosive weapon, and in reality there is no such weapon of an extremely large size. All the FAE bombs the US has developed have been the size of conventional bombs, and readily carried be conventional fighters.

They must not have had a big enough budget to pay the air force for fuel and pilot time to cameo in this movie. I'm guessing they would have used a C-130 for this type of drop. I don't even know what that plane was they used.

Most big F/A bombs need a heavy transport like the Lockheed C-130, which a lot of countries have in their fleets.

I'm curious to know what country you are from. I can tell you what planes would be the best candidate to carry such a huge bomb like the one in the film. Assuming you live in a NATO country or Australia or New Zealand, I'll hazard a guess now and say that your military likely uses some variant of the C-130 to carry big artillery.

Funnily enough, the film used a Fairchild C-123, which were retired from US military service in 1980. I guess that was the biggest plane the movie people could afford?

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