Maybe our 600,000 new chicom engineering students can help build them!
We still have some B1-B Lancers if that helps at all still today? Plus the B-52 fleet.
Is this writer that stupid? A war with one is a war on both as they're, by any objective measure, allies.
We forgot that quantity has its own quality.
Look at the Sherman in WWII. Fast and reliable but under-gunned and under-armored vs. the German competition. But we produced tens of thousands of them. I think one crew in Normandy had 3 tanks shot out from under them in one day, went back, and got another.
In this case, we have hundreds of 747s and other airliners sitting in boneyards that could be converted into un-manned missile carriers. But we won't consider that. Sometimes "pushing the envelope" isn't super-duper high tech but looking around and seizing the obvious.
America Bad!
America Bad!
Russia Better!
China Best!
That is the basic story of every single article you post.
It’s amazing you write more of this tripe every day.
Just had a perfect Starship launch last night. Stealth bombers are buggy whips.
The “National Security Journal” and others of that ilk must be recognized as quintessentially ANTI-American in nature.
This sort of preparation for immediate and dominating military victory over any OR ALL TOGETHER perceived opposition is not the historical vision of this nation. It is quite the opposite.
If we continue down this path, we will no longer be able to even tenuously claim to be a representative Republic, shining as an example to oppressed nations.
To narrowly focus on the “proclaimed need to protect our interests” as justification for absolute military power - we only strengthen what we’ve slowly turned into, an EMPIRE.
This mindset (and the MIC corruption that power it) has to be rejected, or we’re no better than the empires of the past, and will come to no better end.
Let’s not forget about a capable drone force and anti-drone technology.
Just make sure the nukes and their delivery systems work since we have already proved we will use WMDs to end war!!
The war for profit bull$hit must stop now. Can you even imagine how wealthy this country could be once it occurs.
China has 120 to 130 H-6, derivatives of the TU-16 from the 1960s. They have the H-20 in development which has not had her maiden flight yet.
Russia bomber range from a low of 100 to 160 Tu-95s, Tu-22m, and Tu-160 (not counting the dozen bombers Ukraine destroyed in that surpise attack). The Tupolev PAK DA is in development, little is known and has not had a maiden flight.
The USAF plans to build 100 B-21 raiders. It is intended to replace the B-1 and B-2, eventually the B-52 which keeps soldiering on. The U.S. does not need 200 more bombers when compared to Russia or China, U.S. strategic bombers have no near pear adversaries to compete. China and Russia compete with us is politically and economically, not militarily.
We do not need and cannot afford 200 B-21s. Which is all moot, since the USAF does not want, has not asked for, and will not get 200 B-21s anyway.
Once again, reality is demonstrating the National Security Journal is full of experts whose expertise is in getting called experts by other experts.