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To: Mariner

B1, B2, ... B21.

What happened to B3 through B20?

Or did they just meld B2 and B1 to get B21? Shouldn’t it be the BB21 to properly do the meld?


2 posted on 06/10/2021 1:50:30 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("Pour les vaincre il faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The logic they used was that this will become ‘the US bomber for the 21st century’ hence B-21. :rolleyes:


7 posted on 06/10/2021 1:53:19 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

What happened to B3 through B20


None of those are valid Bingo numbers.


10 posted on 06/10/2021 1:56:56 PM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Won’t be long and they will get around to the B-34.


15 posted on 06/10/2021 2:00:25 PM PDT by Texas resident (Silver alert: There is a guy running around DC claiming he is the President.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
BB21 is a battleship...


22 posted on 06/10/2021 2:08:58 PM PDT by null and void (When you put bad people in charge expect bad things to happen, often in a spectacular and sudden way)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Look what they did with the new tanker, they regressed from the KC-135 to the KC-46. :-)


24 posted on 06/10/2021 2:09:49 PM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

BB is the term for a battleship


28 posted on 06/10/2021 2:23:10 PM PDT by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“What happened to B3 through B20?”

Those are now the names of various craters in the Mojave Desert.


34 posted on 06/10/2021 2:34:05 PM PDT by MercyFlush (A wise man once said nothing. )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Well, the F-117 should have been the B-117. It has no fighting capabilities, only bombs (and, unlike in the movies where it is supersonic, it is actually slower than a P-51).


65 posted on 06/10/2021 7:14:32 PM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
We almost had a B-21 in World War II, the North American XB-21:


68 posted on 06/10/2021 11:26:29 PM PDT by MrLucky1966 (GOVT.SYS CORRUPTED! RUN GUN.COM? (Y/Y) GUN.COM NOT FOUND, EXECUTE BASEBALL.BAT? (Y/Y))
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

We have had the B-17 (which to my mind is the most aesthetically pleasing of all WW2 large warbirds).


69 posted on 06/11/2021 5:45:58 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; Chode; All
What happened to B3 through B20?

...while the B-52H will fly on through at least the 2040s, if not into the 2050s.

The B-52I through B-52Z will take America’s Air Force through the year 2150 if Mankind can keep from causing the destruction of Civilization and the Planet .

75 posted on 06/13/2021 1:34:05 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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