[EricT.]

I'm thinking that if I paid $2 billion for a single aircraft, I would spend as much time as possible making sure everything was 100% operational. This ain't like parking your old Buick and turning over the engine once a month.

[Dixie Yooper]

The B-1B is a more versatile and less expensive bomber that can attack both day and night with more payload. 600 mph at treetop level is great way to deliver shock and awe!

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

I'm thinking that if I paid $2 billion for a single aircraft

The often quoted $2 billion price per plane is a lie. Develpment was $38 billion. Originally, 132 copies were to be purchased at $400 million each. But when the buy was scaled back to 21 planes, the incremental cost was $4 billion. That made a total of $42 billion for 21 planes or $2 billion per. But $38 billion spread over 132 planes plus their per copy cost was only supposed to total $91 billion, or $600 million per plane. But the main point is that development fixed cost was $38 billion for one plane or 132 planes and then $400 million per plane thereafter. So it is a $400 million plane and the MSM $2 billion figure is anti-military propaganda.