Posted on 07/16/2024 8:07:54 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
At this moment, nearly every major Department of Defense program seems to be struggling. Technological bottlenecks, industrial capacity problems, workforce issues, and general bureaucratic confusion have produced delivery delays and cost overruns, even as the entire defense industrial base faces the challenge of competing with Russia and China.
The major exception to these problems appears, surprisingly enough, to be the B-21 Raider. The purpose of the B-21 program was to produce a new generation of strategic bombers to replace the B-1B Lancer and the B-2 Spirit. The subsonic B-21 is designed to use stealth to penetrate enemy air defenses and deliver conventional or nuclear payloads. The Raider was needed because of the age and technological obsolescence of the B-1B fleet (designed and built in a different technological reality) and the cost and small size of the B-2 fleet.
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Very important point. The obvious problem with unmanned aircraft is the lack of a seat for the pilot.
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B-52: 1955-2060 (atleast)
Enough said.
We would also have to rebuild the factory. Not impossible, just an added expense ... and then you have a 1960s heavy bomber and a 1970s close support bomber.
What we need is a Congress and a military bureaucracy that can get its act together ... and KEEP its act together ... so that our industry can design, build, and field new weapons and weapon systems before they're obsolete. Politically Correct groupthink leads to pointing fingers at the so-called "military industrial complex". That's BS. The problems begin with 525 morons and anti-patriots on Capitol Hill.
That’s scary to think of 100 year old planes.
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