I’m with you on that. I also think the B-2 Spirit is a big waste of money.
With the advent of advanced stand off weapons, it seems today’s bombers are becoming nothing more than weapon delivery systems.
Low intensity conflicts, you can have a variety of aircraft on perpetual, on-call “standby” for fire missions...like airborne artillery.
High intensity, send in the stealth drones or have air assets just outside enemy air defense zones dropping off huge swarms of hunter killer ordinance.
And while you’re at it, hack into the air defense computers and play pong on their display monitors :)
You are right. Buying only 20 copies was a big waste of development money. If we had built 200 to 500 copies we would have gotten our money’s worth.
Meanwhile the Norks and China have nearly all of their nukes on 8 axle TELS, which means when a war starts no one knows where they are. The original mission of the B-2 was to find and kill high value relocatable targets.
As St. Mother Theresa put it, “ Nuclear war is the fruit of abortion.”