Experts: USAF needs more than 80 to 100 new bombers

Flightglobal ^ | 10 SEPTEMBER, 2015 | JAMES DREW

[rbg81]

The U.S. not only needs new bombers, we need a bigger and better equipped military across the board.

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IMHO, that is unlikely to happen. The $$ just isn’t there now and even less will be available in the future. It will all be spent on healthcare, entitlements and interest on the (ever-expanding) debt. It seems like we long ago decided that free stuff is more important than national security.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

In order to build a new bomber, we need lots and lots of grease to spread around Congress. This means a unit cost north of $25 billion, and contracting spread around as many congressional districts as possible. Just like what is left of our space program.

[Popman]

-—Who will fly them?-—

We have millions of video game hardened gamers who are up to the challenge, as soon as they finish their Mountain Dew and cheeto’s.../ s

[tallyhoe]

No they were going to build it I believe until the mid Air Collision..

[tallyhoe]

ust watch out for the vortexes coming off the horizontal surfaces. Yep you don’t want to fly very close to that Plane.. Had to repaint after every flight!