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New USAF Bomber Program 'Underway' But Cloaked in Secrecy
ORLANDO: America's new long-range bomber program is "underway," will involve somewhere between 80 and 100 planes and will be delivered sometime in the mid-2020's. (defense.aol.com) Mais...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Not too long ago I read that the B-52 -one of the greatest airplanes ever made- had logged an average a mere 2,500 flight hours each. They have been pretty well maintained and upgraded and on top of that they were designed for some 20,000 flight hours so they have a lot of time to go before they are pronounced "dead" and that needs a replacement, but then again how else the USAF is going to spend the dimes saved in the (theoretical and ambiguous) recently announced "reconfiguration of the Air Force needs" that is sending out to pasture at Davis Montham AFB several F-16s, C-130s and killed the C-27 program. We have to be extremely greatful to USAF for such a prudent management of our (limited) financial resources. We also have to be quite thankful to the Defense Industry Gang of 4 for being so patriot in helping the DOD to spend untold billions (in case you don´t remember, the B-2 ended us costing US$ 300 million a opiece when contracted in the 1990s, so the new toy is easily going to cost a cool billion a piece too. Keep on working your rear ends off to sustain this monstruosity with your taxes.
This press release came out of the most logical place of course. The program will after all be a "Mickey Mouse" production.
Too bad I'll never getr to read te article 'cause of the bubbli from air defense .com intrusion that will not allow me to select NO!
Just click outside the box and it dissapears on my browser.
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Thats just really really sad! More unmanned planes that are taking away from accual pilots who are better suited to know what is going on with the plane than computer screens telling you what to do from 12,000 miles away. Thats just plain sad!