500 sounds like a nice round number...
Why, so Biden can give them all to his masters in Ukraine?
Sorry. Voldomor 💃 and the Ukes are ahead of silly national interests.
Maybe if we ask Zelinsky nicely he will give it back?
I’d have to see both expected mission availability AND proposed mission statements for that many strategic bombers.
On the surface it seems excessive.
“Air Force Needs 300-400 B-21 Raiders”
Why?
So we can leave them in Afghanistan or gift them to Ukraine?
The military industrial complex makes corrupt politicians rich.
We’re 33 trillion dollars in debt.
Enough is enough.
To do what? Bomb Republican states? Bomb U.S. churches? Napalm Trump rallies? Drop DEI crap pamphlets on the population who can still read (e.g., private school areas)?
And who would fly them?
What a piker. Only 400 new bombers? That’s only one bomber for every 3,530,000 Chinese people.
Apparently money is not a problem with our govt. but they are too busy worrying about Ukraine right now.
> But do we have the 300 billion to make them all? <
President Coolidge was very careful with the public treasury. And he was faced with the same problem. I’m not saying that Coolidge was right. But he did have an interesting solution:
Why don’t we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.
Calvin Coolidge
Do we have enough?
Sure...
Just deport the 45-to-50 million MIVs currently in this country destroying our economy through theft & welfare & drugs, the education system, and what remains of civil western culture...
Even deportation with prejudice might be appropriate... The invasion must be defeated by any means necessary...
Let’s be serious, NORTHROP needs 300-400 B-21 Raider stealth bombers.
We started with a paltry number of B-2’s, 132 (compare with 744 B-52s). But then ‘peace’ broke out - so, down to 75. Well, that was still too much...so down 21. Since then one crashed, so 20 today. Pretty much the same for EVERY big-ticket item we’ve built in the past 50 years.
But, yes, if we want to be a WORLD POWER, we sure as hell need to build hundreds of bombers...rather than making more excuses to not do so and then go running around the world trying to start World War 3.
Could have used the money we spent on the neocon wet dream in Ukie to pay for many of them.
Buy drones instead.
To give to Ukraine?
How about they figure out if the thing even flies and works, if it actually has range, and if it actually can carry what’s intended.
Not having an interest in aviation I used to look forward to reading the posts from the guys who did, on threads about military aircraft.
Judging by the thread so far, those members have moved on.
How about one trillion, given the usual Pentagon cost overruns ?
Reminds me of the UK after WW1, bankrupt, losing the international currency, the world’s most expensive military, and the most Imperialistic factions in the gov’t wanted to invade Russia, invade and occupy Armenia, occupy both Iran and Iraq as well as keep going with the rest of the Empire.
Imperial delusions and over-reach.