It makes no sense to me. I know B-52s are also old and not sexy, but war fought properly is not flashy at all. Why would you want to scrap a flying gatling gun? Idiots!
“Why would you want to scrap a flying gatling gun? Idiots!”
I think the military supplier lobbyists have been greasing too many palms... there’s not a lot of money in perpetuation this bad boy. But I would rather see them make thousands of these with some updates...and fill them with good pilots...or drone them.