Posted on 08/26/2022 1:41:55 PM PDT by whyilovetexas111
How Many B-21 Raider Bombers Are Needed? At some point in the future, officials from the Department of the Air Force will likely be seated in a House subcommittee in our nation’s capital and asked a blunt question from United States lawmakers: How many B-21 Raider bombers do you actually need?
Some U.S. Air Force officials are already pondering that query. Current plans call for the service to operate at least 100 long-range strategic bombers, but there have been calls for the Air Force to acquire upwards of 179 or more.
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We can’t afford them. Those Pentagon people that push them are future MIC board members. IF China doesn’t kick our ass first.
They’ll get 20 or so and be happy with it. And the contractors will be soaking in money and looking for the next windfall of endless development and pre-production funding for the next pointless boondoggle.
Part of me thinks that we wouldn’t even retaliate if another country nuked a city like New York. We would just sit tight — because we wouldn’t want to make the other country mad.
We have advanced weapons, but I’m not sure we plan to use them. We just talk like we would.
The number made might be dependent on where they are made, who are the Members of Congress and Senators where they will manufactured and how powerful they are and the number made could be far more than anyone realizes
The MSM and Dems would wet their panties and fret about what we did to hurt their feelings so much that they would nuke us.
Then, launch a campaign to shame anyone who takes offense to the bombing.
“How Many B-21 Raider Bombers Does The Air Force Need?”
I would say 700, minimum, providing that we want to continue igniting wars with global superpowers*.
If we’d rather live in peace, then maybe 132 of them.
*if that is now our long-term policy, I’d like to have a military capable of winning those wars
As many as China will need from us, once they take over the USA
The IRS is going to need all of the B-21s it can get.
With all the drones and stuff we have now not to mention missiles why would we even need this?
Make work for pilots!
With all the advancements in air defense systems, mainly in Russia and China, these bombers and aircraft carriers will be obsolete before too long. Hope we don’t have to learn that the hard way.
Don’t forget, 20% for Abdulla in Afghanistan
Look at the money spent on spare F35 engines that the Air Force didn't want and the tanks Congress made the Army buy. It's all a racket played with other people's money.
No expenditure is too great, no repression or mass murder is too great to ensure that anyone opposed to the Schumer - Pelosi - McConnell - McCarthy Uniparty remains. Slow Joe said out loud nukes might be necessary.
We have allowed our phantom peace dividend to gut our military to the point where 70 year old bombers are still considered as part of our defense systems to compete against 21st century technology.
We will need enough to pose a credible deterrent threat to any country that wishes us harm. We need enough to be able to conduct operations against two separate enemies simultaneously, and have a reserve for any contingency.
That was the argument LeMay posed for making SAC a viable command. Transposed into todays world, we are facing those same threats again, Russia, China and any third world dictator that wants to confront the evil satan.
A deep penetrating bomber fleet will have to pose enough of a survivable force as to neutralize any threat to our country, either by fear or force.
Numbers like 20 or 30 are just ludicrously small to do that job in our current environment. A fleet of 100 is a bare minimum, considering that all aircraft are not on alert all the time. Of that 100, about 70 will be combat effective at any given time, the others down for maintenance, or dedicated to training. Numbers like 200 approach a more realistic count to completely replace and modernize the only element of our nuclear TRIAD that still is flexible enough to be recalled or strike if need be.
Rest assured that opponents to this or any military program as "boondoggles" or overkill are more that willing to give $700 Billion to imaginary programs to "reduce inflation" or $200 billion to deadbeat college students, while not spending a red cent on defense of our country or assuring the men an women who fly into war have a decent chance of success or survival.
They’ll need as many B-21 Raider Bombers as it takes, to ensure that the politicians on both sides of the aisle, and their biggest donors will earn big bucks from their investments.
To pay for them we just need to
We could build 1000 bombers and also be able to drastically cut income taxes with the multi-trillions saved...
None, if they are waging a social justice war instead of protecting the US.
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