Posted on 06/26/2025 10:51:53 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
Recent events, including the “Operation Midnight Hammer” B-2 strike on Iran, have highlighted the urgent need for the US Air Force to acquire a much larger fleet of stealth bombers. The current force of only 19 B-2s is stretched thin. Compounding the issue, significant delays in the B-52J modernization program mean those aircraft may not be ready until 2030 or later.
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The island of East China will handle that should the need arise.
If so, we have enough of these planes for that. (that’s a very bif IF)
They’re killing me....
First they have the B2 with a “stealthy” cross-section, then they throw in a B52 with cross-section of a small island.
I feel a whiplash coming on....
Got a whiskey handy *grin*
B2s ain’t cheap. Do we have enough? I dunno. Used to play in tactics development but nowhere near this level.
Hey - Anybody remember “stealth” is courtesy of a Russian mathematician? Russians ain’t stupid, they just had an egg-sucking political system.
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