I thought the new bomber would be based at Whiteman...
I thought the new bomber would be based at Whiteman...
Air Force actually thinks they’ll get 175-200 of them at $550+ million each.
I think Victoria Secret models will be delivering a pizza and beer to me tonight.
Yet another taxpayer funded boondoggle.
The B-1, B-2, F-35, F-22, ICBM/SLBM missile systems, Tomahawks, and other weapon systems have cost the taxpayer trillions, and for what? So we can beat up ragheads armed with rusty rifles??
We spend billions then only make a handful after promises that we’ll buy lots of them to make them cheaper, but then we buy only a handful.
The B-2 cost over $2 billion a copy after we taxpayers paid all the bills. The F-22 has cost over $340 million per airplane. If you include that fact that only 10 of these are flyable at any given time, we the taxpayers paid $4 billion per flying copy.
The NRO/USAF has paid over $10 billion for one satellite program alone that got canceled, and there have been multiple of these. Several key space program are now over $10 billion over budget.
National defense spending is necessary; Military Industrial Complex spending is not.
BTW, the new National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB), a 2015 invention to improve the lousy security clearance review processes, is now over 700,000 background investigations behind with more added every month.
The B-21 program is suffering from that and cannot get anyone a clearance. Everyone recruited must have a current clearance. All classified program are experiencing this. Recruiters are going nuts trying to recruit enough people with current clearances because the NBIB cannot process any new ones. That is costing we the Taxpayers even more money because companies are being paid when workers cannot work or compensated when workers cannot be found.
We need to put the brakes on any and all new development programs for 25 years until we’ve used what we’ve already paid for.
Plant 42 has been pretty active lately, I can see it and Edwards from the top of my mountain.
Need another b52....sometin that can carry 10 moabs...or so...
Re: a lecture given at the elitist Davos conference, civilization has evolved from whoever had the land rules, to whoever has the machines rules (tanks, bombers, etc.), to whoever has the algorithms rules. We have entered the “algorithms not organisms” age, he said. Digital dictatorship, in other words. Artificial Intelligence robotics, 5G interconnectivity, etc.
Just saying.
Does it have pilots? If it does it’s out dated.