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To: RogerFGay
Four billion dollars is a lot of money. It would buy almost ninety B-2 stealth bombers.

Unhhh, maybe two, not ninety.

19 posted on 03/09/2010 8:43:49 AM PST by glorgau
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To: glorgau

Believe me - I went through plenty of discussion about the number of B-2s back when the article was first published. Total cost of a B-2 (not just the aircraft itself) includes lots of add-on high tech equipment that is very expensive as well as operating and maintenance costs over its lifetime. Just getting a strip-down B-2 to park in your driveway is a lot less expensive than the numbers you’re thinking of. The numbers given in the article were not just off the top of my head.


20 posted on 03/09/2010 8:51:06 AM PST by RogerFGay
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To: glorgau

I read once that the B-2 would cost less if it were made of solid gold.


22 posted on 03/09/2010 9:05:36 AM PST by printhead
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