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To: AzSteven

At $1,200,000,000 per plane, this will be the most thoroughly investigated Air Force crash in history.

Also, unless something extraordinary happened, like a flock of birds being ingested into both engines causing the crash, this will ground the B-2 fleet.


10 posted on 02/22/2008 7:32:24 PM PST by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: Bryan24
this will ground the B-2 fleet.

Both of them, huh?

36 posted on 02/22/2008 8:02:07 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Bryan24

I bet they wish they paid for the $6.00 insurance.


46 posted on 02/22/2008 8:18:35 PM PST by LukeL
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To: Bryan24
That’s the MAJOR problem with these incredibly expensive and therefore limited weapons -

You lose one to an accident or an enemies’ “ golden BB “ and 5% of your ENTIRE fleet is wiped out.

To put this in perspective, it would be the equivalent of losing 37 B-52's or over 600 B-17s at one stroke. Can we afford to lose a war over 20 lucky shots ?

68 posted on 02/22/2008 9:18:18 PM PST by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
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To: Bryan24
Imagine how many pilot less predators you could buy for $1,200,000,000.
91 posted on 02/22/2008 10:27:50 PM PST by BBell
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To: Bryan24
At $1,200,000,000 per plane, this will be the most thoroughly investigated Air Force crash in history.

NO NEED.....It is George Bush's FAULT just like KATRINA et al!!

133 posted on 02/23/2008 11:25:13 AM PST by PISANO
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