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My 900th thread posted and counting...
Interesting reading. Too bad it is too much for the average “JOE” to understand and take the time to read.
Short and sweet BITS is all that can be read.
Even to me it becomes another overwhelming situation. What can one person do? Sit and worry?
The B-52 is still the workhorse of the bomber fleet. The B-1 is a beautiful airplane, looks like it is flying 600 MPH while on the ground. BUT, it was designed to drop nukes.. Has a limited capacity in a non-nuke war. The B-2 is ugly (IMHO), stealthly and slow, but has the range if not the lifting capacity of the Buff.
C-130... I had the privelidge of being in a C-130 the day the J model was type certified, and am here to tell you that it is a beautiful cargo plane. So the design is 30 years old, they are still coming off the assembly line. Not all missions need a C-5 capacity.
KC-135, works well for almost all of the fleet.
Bottom line, (IMHO) Why do we need to reinvent the wheel. Buy more of the same design and call the fleet upgraded. Why go thru the R&D cycle, and perhaps get an inferior product (whitness the Osprey fiasco).
.....Bob
***My 900th thread posted and counting...***
I wish I could start more threads but someone always beats me to it.......So I just set back and snipe.