[Kenny Bunk]

..... 168 F-22 planes as of October 2010. The projected plan is 187 planes....

Thanks for the reassuring info. I am not so reassured about the B-2 numbers.

I am old enough to always recall that thousands of crude T-34 tanks overwhelmed hundreds of super-high quality, high-performance, high firepower NAZI tanks. So I always fear an aerial version of same when going up against the CHICOM, or Russkis.

As far as close support aircraft are concerned, do we want 1 F-35 an hour away, or 25 A-10s on instant call ... or 50 helicopters?

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

If you have at least three B-52s”cells” and filled to the brim with nuclear ALCM missiles you can wreak a lot of damage. That many B-2s can turn the entire nations of Russia and Iran into dust. The nuclear AGMs the B-2 carries over 300 kilotons per cruise missile