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To: GOP_1900AD
How do you know they didn’t use new parts?

I don't. But the bear bomber is very long in the tooth, and I don't think any new ones have rolled off a Tupolev production line in quite a few years. If they are new parts, they are left over from previous production runs.

Besides, canning old birds to keep others flying is a time honored military aviation practice (there as well as here). It is the most cost effective way to keep older aircraft flying.

138 posted on 08/22/2007 3:53:55 PM PDT by PsyOp (Truth in itself is rarely sufficient to make men act. - Clauswitz, On War, 1832.)
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To: PsyOp

There was active production as recently as 10 years ago. You can’t say that about B-52s.


139 posted on 08/22/2007 8:02:58 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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