The MIC needs the money folks.
We WERE going to build 132, then 75...wound up building 21, one then crashed, now at 20.
WHY? Because the Neocons concluded that WE RAN THE WORLD and we had finally reached THE END OF HISTORY - so we didn’t really need any B-2s, or much of a military for that matter, by their twisted logic.
THEN, they realized that China and Russia never read THE END OF HISTORY and thus were not interested in joining Europe and a few other countries in being our slave-states.
...and guess what, we never built enough of the weapons that we needed to RUN THE WORLD. So, yes, our relative handful of remaining B-1s, B-52s, and B-2s can drop bombs on Third World countries, but until we get China and Russia to read THE END OF HISTORY, we ain’t gonna be running the world, not by a long shot...and good luck at that.
If one was shot down? The fleet shot down? It was a “perfect” plan. Why need more?
Which country to bomb next? Decisions decisions, and fleecing when trillions in debt, but yeah buy another 20 stealth bombers.
The truly rich put most of their operating expenses under their tax-exempt foundations, as actually used to game the system for profit. The "charities" they support are almost all leftist causes. THAT is where we need to go after the cash flow.
Maybe we could have China build them for us. (spit)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4324946/posts
Great video about the B-21, projecting it’s possible use (one month ago):
B-21 Raider ATTACK Plan for Iran is SHOCKING!
https://youtu.be/uCwn1QIpeQs?si=Dk93djR6W0Van-WS
Is that an article in the “National Security Journal” or a Northrop Grumman ad?
The global threats will need to wait in line I guess, for the world’s policeman to show up. Because we have abandoned that role. Let someone else step up to take over.
In 2025 dollars, it would have cost us 155 billion dollars to build 132 B-2s.
Expensive. But we can afford it. So much waste and graft in our budget.
Yes to the title. We need more of those bombers, more bases for the bombers, hidden bases for the bombers, and in more places of the world.
How exactly does that make the fleet "strained"? If anything, the mission proved that 132 units would be absolute overkill. We just neutered a major world power with just 7, in just one bombing run.