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To: ClearCase_guy

A Boeing 777 cost $320 million each. Remove seats, change and strengthen wings, add bomb bay doors and add slope and curves to fuselage and change tail configuration and remove the wifi entertainment system. Still expensive but I would think still cheaper then what is propose. They could buy B1 bombers at about $300 million each. They already work well.


20 posted on 10/27/2015 6:34:36 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound
"A Boeing 777 cost $320 million each. Remove seats, change and strengthen wings, add bomb bay doors and add slope and curves to fuselage and change tail configuration and remove the wifi entertainment system. Still expensive but I would think still cheaper then what is propose."

Surely you are kidding.

25 posted on 10/27/2015 6:44:48 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: minnesota_bound

[A Boeing 777 cost $320 million each. Remove seats, change and strengthen wings, add bomb bay doors and add slope and curves to fuselage and change tail configuration and remove the wifi entertainment system. Still expensive but I would think still cheaper then what is propose. They could buy B1 bombers at about $300 million each. They already work well.]

Bring toilet seats up to military specs with $750 replacements.


29 posted on 10/27/2015 6:52:36 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: minnesota_bound

B1 tooling has long since been destroyed by order of Congress.

A Boeing 777 is not even vaguely armored and the entire avionics system is not EMP hardened. Did I mention the 777 is fly by wire and has no manual controls? No mid-air refueling provisions, major parts of the 777 are made overseas so there’s a huge security problem...

Costs a bit more than you’d think to convert it to a bomber. And in the end, it wouldn’t work well in the role anyway.


41 posted on 10/28/2015 12:41:10 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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