[whyilovetexas111]

Is this thing really worth it? Seems overpriced and not worth the money as drones can do a lot of this? Please tell me I am wrong!

[Gen.Blather]

The US is thousands of miles from where our national interests lie. We have to get there first. The raider can carry drones and drop them anywhere.

[null and void]

“Indeed, expectations could be the bomber’s biggest enemy for the moment.”

Second only to a congress that wants a totally vulnerable America...

[Red Badger]

[CodeToad]

More expensive and useless as the B-2 has been.

[Carry_Okie]

A horde of small-nuke-armed drones is a vastly cheaper platform in terms of devastation on targets per dollar. What these things are good for is delivering massive amounts of conventional ordinance anywhere in the world with great accuracy. It’s for beating up on countries that won’t get with the globalist programme.

[Thud]

That enemy is “reality”.

[Carriage Hill]

No; you’re right.
The MIC LOVES to spend OUR money.

[PGR88]

one Washington thinktank is backing the claim, and urging the US to pursue large-scale acquisition of the B-21.

Let's find out who is funding that "thinktank"

[Sequoyah101]

I just read an article in one of the defense magazines that says the days of stealth are numbered and so are the days of the B-21. The AF plans upwards of a thousand new drones in the next FY I just read today.

Makes me wonder if the Raider or Northrup are going to last long. Got a bad feeling about both.

[alternatives?]

“large, fuel-guzzling military aircraft”

Consuming fuel generates heat. Where does the heat go without generating a trail?

[DesertRhino]

Only a fool thinks stealth is viable in the never ending war between stealth and radar. We get a new generation of stealth every 10-20 years. Meanwhile the microchips analyzing radar inputs double every 18 months at least. We are something like three generations into the planes. Computing power is way more than 5000 times as powerful.

See also… battleship.

[pfflier]

So many weapon systems were developed for a specific purpose then evolved to excel in a different mission. Look at the ROI the B-52 got us.

Yet the libs scream and yell about the expense every chance they get. I'm sure that started when some tribes went to the bow and arrow after using spears.

[PIF]

Please tell me I am wrong!

—
You are - because the plane is designed to be pilotless as well as with humans in it who could control a flight of drones.

[CodeJockey]

Still a lot of secrecy about this plane. For all we know at this point, it may well be a drone.

[PLMerite]

[...with some claiming that the new stealth bomber will have the radar cross section (RCS) of an insect. ]

Yeah, freakin' Mothra...

[MarzOb]

This and the Columbia SSBN and the Sentinel ICBM programs are probably the most important military upgrades since the 70s and especially 80s with Reagan. Absolutely required.