Posted on 10/27/2015 2:34:35 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
The Air Force just announced that the Long Range Strike Bomber contract has been awarded to Northrop Grumman.
Always liked it too but loved the F4U Corsair the most from that era.
The P47 would be in the running for second.
Great planes!
“Our inferior aircraft was due to penny pinching”
Yeah, it’s amazing what you can’t build for $1B per aircraft.
I’m not surprised that that thing didn’t fly for long.
This question came up earlier (in the year) and I did some research on the numbers. Here is a link to my post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3338242/posts?page=28#28
So Strange McNamara managed to find a nut. In the 60s a high altitude bomber with a radar cross section only marginally smaller than the factory which built it was outdated technolgy
While Soviet air defenses were continually improving, it was generally accepted that the B-70 (had it gone into production) would have been able to do exactly what the B-52 did, using the ill-fated Skybolt and/or the AGM-28A (Hound Dog) air to ground missiles, and the advantage of the B-70 over the 52 is that it could accomplish the same mission at speeds up to Mach 3.
Yeah, and will obsolete at the start of the war the “Wildcat.”
Not if you build them in CHINA................
China probably already is gearing up to make the parts................
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