Let’s review: The new official line for mass consumption seems to be that the Air Force no longer wants a hypersonic Romulan Warbird complete with cloaking device and disruptor beams. Rather, it wants a good ‘ol pickup that borrows components from airplanes that already fly, and one that, like the eternal B-52, can eventually take missions its original designers might never have dreamed of. The airplane won’t cost anything close to a $2 billion B-2, and that means the Air Force can buy as many as 100 of them — the most of any one model bomber it will have flown in decades.
Philip Ewing writing in DoD Buzz about the Air Force’s new “simple, no-frills, advanced new bomber.” Hopefully if the military starts focusing on new weapon systems that are affordable and dependable instead of complicated and problematic, the Pentagon will be able to save money and provide better weapons to the troops.
(Source: dodbuzz.com)
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