[A.A. Cunningham]

"[Providing an] ability to fly unseen into high-value targets, and to kick down the door and take them out," he said.

Provided, of course, that they are accompanied by EA-6Bs, as every B-2 combat mission is now, to jam enemy low band search radars to which the B-2 is susceptible to detection by.

[Spruce]

...o make more, they'd have to rebuild factories or find other factories; make the tools all over again...

I read this often about many various systems.

Why do we do this? Destroy the tooling, teams, and capability to produce hardware. I mean, doesn't this infrastructure cost the largest portion of the development budget?

It just doesn't make sense.