Posted on 09/25/2024 12:29:12 PM PDT by whyilovetexas111
The Air Force and Northrop are testing different aspects of the B-21 while it’s in-air and are “expanding the operating envelope.” There is the main testing airplane, and two others are undergoing evaluations on the ground.
The Air Force eventually want to acquire at least 100 B-21 Raiders. The stealth bomber is a dual-threat airplane that can deliver a nuclear payload or conventional munitions. Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota will have the first squadron.
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During WW2 the Germans spent their resources on producing relatively few highly sophisticated tanks, the Tiger being the most famous. The Soviets spent their resources on producing many basic tanks, the T-34 being the most famous.
And we all know who won that little dust-up.
The lesson there is not conclusive. Yet there is a lesson there.
As Tom Jones also said: Its Not Unusual...for these things to cost triple estimated costs...you know it happens all the time.
We can sell the old B-2’s to help pay for them.
I don’t see where there is room to store the ordnance.
Lots of innovations that have reshaped how we conduct warfare since WW2. Quantity can be a quality of its own, but things like precision munitions, combined arms and highly mobile forces, and various low observable technology give many advantages. F117's in Panama and the Gulf War, Abrams shoot while on the move capability, smart munitions, and reductions in the number of bombs and sorties necessary to achieve regime changing results in Iraqi Freedom, C4I and total battle space awareness. Several examples in the last 40 years now that numbers by themselves arent everything.
“There’s a pause on the program and the Air Force doesn’t know how much it is going to cost or how it will be designed.”
Hey, just hire some more DEI Engineers to design it and DEI assemblers and I’m sire it will get off the ground ... at lest fora few feet and cost $1 trillion apiece.
And how did our Abrams and Bradley’s fare against the far more numerous Iraqi T-72s and BMPs? F-15s and F-16s against MiGs?
A technological advantage can be a great one, if you can maintain them.
That’s right. At the rate we’re going, we won’t have much of a Defense Dept. in a few years and these planes will be mothballed or sold to the highest bidder. Besides, the Woke pilots wouldn’t be competent enough to fly them.
As I previously noted, the WW2 lesson of quantity beats quality is not conclusive. Your counterexamples are good ones.
My point is that America immediately jumps on technology bandwagon without considering how that same pot of money could buy many more less-sophisticated toys.
Drones, maybe?
“I say it again: can we afford these things anymore? The nation is $35 trillion in debt.”
Not trying to hijack a thread, but I have been looking at Flightradar24 for a while. Recently I bungled around and found how to only see government aircraft, which is all I’m interested in. The number U.S. military aircraft flying around the U.S. and the world is incredible. The money being spent to must be mind boggling. Even looking in Europe, and around Asia, usually a large percentage of the aircraft are U.S. military.
Cool, but they should make it look more like a baby in a uterus about to be aborted. That’s American ingenuity right there.
That was before nuclear weapons and air defense missiles
And the M1 tank has proven very effective properly used
Would be smarter to buy longer range drones capable of penetrating enemy air defenses.
When will it be put up for public sale?
They want 100....
We’ll be lucky if they manage to get a single squadron. Then the MIC will be off selling the latest new toy we absolutely must have as a nation to maintain our freedom and national security...
Wallowing in rampant inflation and marxist public policy.
The lesson is...Don’t get stuck in Russian mud.
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