A quick comparison chart.
BEAR BUFF
Length: 151 ft 6 in 159 ft 4 in
Wingspan: 164 ft 5 in 185 ft 0 in
Height: 39 ft 9 in 40 ft 8 in
Wing area: 3,330 sq ft 4,000 sq ft
Empty weight: 198,000 lb 185,000 lb
Loaded weight: 376,200 lb 265,000 lb
Max. takeoff weight: 414,500 lb 488,000 lb
8 ft difference in length, 20 ft difference in wingspan. Less than 1 ft difference in height. (You may have been confused by the Wikipedia presentation: the Bear had metric first, then English, the BUFF had English first, then metric.) Wing area comparable, empty weight comparable, loaded weight over 100,000 lbs difference, about 70,000 lbs MGTOW difference.
You may be right about missile payload vs. loaded weight.
You'll have to reformat the chart for readability: eccie stripped the spaces.
Originally Posted by Sidewinder
dude,
put that stat in courier new font and add dots in place of spaces. it'll put the format of the stat properly aligned. this board 4 some reason doesn't like multi-spaces.