B-1 bomber catches fire in Qatar

Gulf Times ^

[maquiladora]

Ping... Interesting.

[roaddog727]

No matter what the cause, that’s gonna be an expensive repair.......

[Levante]

“An earlier report from Al Jazeera English said the B-1 had crashed.”

Typical islamonazi wet dream.

[boomop1]

Must have hit a camel.

[Leisler]

Why do we need billion dollar aircraft to drop bombs on mud huts?

[Nachoman]

You don’t think we might face a more capable enemy some day?

[telebob]

"Why do we need billion dollar aircraft to drop bombs on mud huts?"

My guess is that we don't have enough obsolete, unsafe old air jalopies around to make it all the way to A'stan or Iraq.

[Leisler]

Like what, concrete huts?

Anyways, economy of force. One B-2 could put all Army and Marines in mine proof vehicles, but that isn’t sexy.

[Leisler]

How many decades has the Air Force tried to kill of the A-10s? But no, we got to use up, and make used up jalopies out of the B-2s, bombing mud huts, ditches and Japanese diesel pickups so that the Air Force bureaucracy can justify themselves. I can't wait for geosynchronous anti-camel laser platforms to be proposed.

[telebob]

Hey, I’m no expert but I really doubt the military uses our most modern resources in a wasteful way. I’m sure some of the more knowledgable folks will chime in here shortly and explain it all to you.

Meanwhile, I just think you’re a crank...

[CGTRWK]

Hey, I’m no expert but I really doubt the military uses our most modern resources in a wasteful way.

One of our 500 billion dollar federal bureacracies using resources in a wasteful way? I don't believe it!

[Leisler]

Although English isn't math, it can help approach reality. Like when Orwell said he didn't know what he thought until he wrote about it.

But anyway, what you meant to say is that you feel I am a crank. You have no objective facts to support your opinion being based upon rational thought.

[Steely Tom]

But anyway, what you meant to say is that you feel I am a crank. You have no objective facts to support your opinion being based upon rational thought.

Having read what you wrote, I think the objective facts support telebob's thinking.

[jammer]

Having read what they wrote, I think anyone who thinks, much less writes, “but I really doubt the military uses our most modern resources in a wasteful way” IS a crank.

[steve86]

“B1 Date Deployed: June 1985
Unit Cost: $283.1 million (fiscal 98 constant dollars)”

http://www.tinker-af.org/b-1.htm

[jhpigott]

the official explanation thus far is kind of dodgy . . . makes it seem like this was something more than just a fire that broke out on the ground after the landing

[MinuteGal]

Since our government is being very mum on this, let me be the first in the world to state that there is absolutely no evidence that this incident was a terrorist attack, none indeedy.

Leni

[Leisler]

I love to see bait taken. Thanks.

[Leisler]

I have two sisters that are teachers. They tell me that it costs something like $10k/yr per student to ‘educate’ them. I tell them it's more like $20K. They ask me how I get that. I say since half the kids are uneducated, they didn't meet the production quality goals. In the free market, they wouldn't of been paid for these poor products and would have to pass the costs on to those units that did.

Now if you think I believe the bombers are totally costed out at 300 million each, forgeheaboutit. That PART of that expense, at that moment in time, might well be correct. But the total costs of decades of expense, and total costs of off unit expense in other required expenses on the bomber could, easy, well push it over a billion.

Take the Marines Osprey. They have spent 18 billion. When the production bill comes in, the 18 billion will not be added to the aircraft unit cost. Nice. Who in private sector gets to cost out stuff like this but government?