War pigs see dollar signs.
So, why are the broadcasting the shortage issue and number of stealth bombers we have?
“One of the biggest mistakes we made—and that we are seeing now with the attack on Iran’s nuclear sites—is that we do not have enough of the B-2s. We only built 21 of them.”
If we had built 100 b2’s we couldn’t build the 21’s now.
It all works out for good.
The B2 is designed for the Cold-war soviet era, and America’s “wars of empire” - flying in to 3rd world countries, operating 3rd party air-defenses, and bombing specific targets of regime power.
its also designed to maximize profits for the Northern Virginia-DC corporations of the military industrial complex.
They would be useless in a war with Russia or China, who aren’t global powers, so don’t have a need for such capabilities - and who have leap-frogged the need for a B2-type plane with hypersonic missiles.
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You can thank budget cutting democRATs for that. Also for the limited (178) number of F22's produced.
B-52s, B-1s, B-2s, and F-22s are all limited, IRREPLACEABLE, assets ... just like the democRATs want.
The only way to make A B.52 stealthy is to keep it on the ground.The j variant will not help
Nevermind the upgrade, just build the current model. You can upgrade them later.
The non-DEI/non-wetback citizens would appreciate the jobs.
The stealth B-52J ;-)
I don’t see why more of these planes are needed.
How often does an operation like this need to happen?
How much of the world is buried 300 feet down.
Yeah, we have plenty. Stealth is a brief window technologically, like the Zero running wild for the first year of the war, like the U-2 flying so high radar couldn’t detect it and missiles couldn’t hit it.
Stealth is a losing game. We maybe roll out a new stealth every 15 years or so. First was F-117, then B-2, then F-35 that has a slightly larger RCS than a 30 year old at that point F-117. Now we are looking at a B-21.
Stealth airframes are only marginally better with each new design.
Meanwhile, SAM radars are only limited by computing power to process what the antennae see. THAT, following Moore’s law roughly has increased SAM radars 5000 times more than the mid-70s. AI and Quantum computing makes it a dead certainty that stealth will only be “stealth” for another decade or so.
We have all we need. Sounds like “National Security Journal” is probably filled with glossy Northrup-Grumman ads.
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.