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To: Aussie Dasher
I would like to see the U.S. build a fleet of at least 8,000 bombers that are triple the wingspan of the B-52, can travel around the world three times without refueling and that can drop over 800 two-ton bombs.

That's 1.6 million tons of bombs.

11 posted on 07/20/2006 5:26:24 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76
I would like to see the U.S. build a fleet of at least 8,000 bombers that are triple the wingspan of the B-52, can travel around the world three times without refueling and that can drop over 800 two-ton bombs

It would probably look like a flying saucer, and not make any noise. ;o)

15 posted on 07/20/2006 5:37:49 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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To: SamAdams76

How about a stealthy ramjet powered space plane.

Able to take off in the midwest, climb directly into space then either drop back into the atmosphere or stay there until needed. Could even have an anti-satellite ability?

Additional capability - effective rapid global pinpoint delivery of whatever, whenever from a 100% standing start.


17 posted on 07/20/2006 5:39:05 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Shalom through strength)
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To: SamAdams76
I would like to see the U.S. build a fleet of at least 8,000 bombers that are triple the wingspan of the B-52, can travel around the world three times without refueling and that can drop over 800 two-ton bombs.

Where did you buy your weed?

19 posted on 07/20/2006 5:40:45 PM PDT by zarf
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To: SamAdams76

I think a fleet of bombers flying wing-to-wing for as far as the eye can see would have an awesomly chilling effect on our adversaries.


26 posted on 07/20/2006 5:51:52 PM PDT by rbg81 (1)
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To: SamAdams76
Can you imagine an airlift craft that can carry 40 fully loaded M1 tanks (60 tons each) anywhere in the world and/or the same amt of weight in weapons from an altitude of at least 20 miles (100,000ft)?

If anti-gravity propulsion gets off the ground (pardon the pun) then size & weight suddenly becomes irrelevant and you can see todays seagoing cargo container ships & international travel drops in cost by 99%.

Colonizing space will become commonplace from that point on. Instead of costing $20,000 per pound to put an object in a 100 mile orbit it become $20 per pound!!

Then with the possibility of placing space based bombs in space then nowhere on earth is safe and warfare has to be re-written all over again!

44 posted on 07/20/2006 7:46:39 PM PDT by prophetic
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To: SamAdams76
Good evening.
"I would like to see the U.S. build a fleet of at least 8,000 bombers that are triple the wingspan of the B-52, can travel around the world three times without refueling and that can drop over 800 two-ton bombs."

How about several satellites with lasers and Google Earth Plus?

Michael Frazier
66 posted on 07/20/2006 9:25:10 PM PDT by brazzaville (no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
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To: SamAdams76

You need a bomber that can identify a terrorist from the other side of the planet, fly to that location and drop red dye all over him--the kind the banks use.


102 posted on 07/21/2006 8:19:29 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: SamAdams76
I would like to see the U.S. build a fleet of at least 8,000 bombers that are triple the wingspan of the B-52, can travel around the world three times without refueling and that can drop over 800 two-ton bombs.

At the way the cost over runs have been flowing, plus the trend by congress to always cut airframes (eg the Raptor was originally supposed to be over 750, but now will be less than 200 - and due to the fewer airframes being built, each aircraft will be significantly more expensive than previously projected), and the way every successive generation gets more expensive; I'd say that by the time this bomber comes out Congress will probably approve only 2 of them. And one of those will be the test prototype!

Just look at the JSF. Once upon a time that thing was supposed to be a 'cheap' but very effective fighter. One time it was supposed to go for 40 mil. Now they say 60 mil. The cost overuns are still continuing, and by the time it is all said and done the plane will be overweight and considerably more expensive than it was intended to be (actually it is already both of those, it is just that it will probably head even more in that direction).

Anyways, I know this new bomber, when it comes out, will make the world gasp. When the F-117 came out it was amazing (and although it is 'old' for the US the rest of the world still has to come up with a Night Hawk analogue, whcih says something about the F-117). Then the B-2. And in the world of fighters the F-22 is simply without comparison. Thus this new bomber, whatever they decide it to be, will be a flying wet dream. Absolutely amazing.

The thing is you will be sure that the sabres and cutlasses will be swinging and slashing in Congress and the Pentagon as all sorts of camps and 'mafia' pop up all over the place.

106 posted on 07/21/2006 8:49:20 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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