USAF can't afford JSTARS replacement

Flight Global ^ | 3/20/2012 | Dave Majumdat

[fallujah-nuker]

B-52s are awesome where we have air supremacy, but we have far better missile and precision options in the nutty event of a world war with China or Russia.

A B-52 type aircraft can serve as both a bomb truck for leveling crap holes like Kandahar, and as a stand off missile launcher.

[Jeff Head]

This has the Obama administration cut backs written all over it.

The Air Force could have re-engineered the existing platforms, which that manufacturer proposed, or had an entirely new aicraft based on the new P-8 Posiedon for the US Navy, that Bosing was willing to design and build for the Air Force to their JSTAR specs and requirements for the same cost being proposed to re-engineer the existing fleet.

That sounded like the best path...but I am sure we will be a good while digging out of the Obama funk if we defeat him and replace him in 2012.

If we do not...we may not be able to dig out of what he intends for our military...just like he is doing to the economy.