Pi$$ing away taxpayer dollars—Something the US federal government excels at.
Yep. TANF, SNAP, WIC, AFDC, Medicaid, 0bamacare ... heck, even Socialist Insecurity and Medicare are prime examples thereof. The B-58? Not so much ...
Well-...
TO THIS DAY - still maintains the LONGEST sustained supersonic flight- what was really dangerous? like the F14A- it was the engines- at super sonic speed if an engine
flamed out- the aircraft became totally unstable-
(just remarkable-.. a record that has not been broken
since 1963?- just like the SR71- we made some amazing
Tech)
(for the longest Sustained flight- they actually had
an afterburner fail on one of the engines- finished the
flight at reduced speed-) also- during this period-
the YF12-A was in test development- this development-
led to the XB70 Valkyrie- but things move fast- missle
systems soon rendered super fast bombers obsolete-
left the B52 tried and true-
B1-(100 built) to replace the aging B52- Whole -nother story on
carter canceling- Reagan building-
now B2- the stealth bomber- very expensive strategic
asset - only reason is to maintain the U.S. nuclear
Triad policy
War, and being prepared for war, are horrendously expensive. Even more expensive — and potentially catastrophic — is being in a war that one is unprepared for.