Remember That B2 In Guam That Burned?

[Incident_command]

This isn't gonna buff out.

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[Taylor1]

RIP and a salute.

[Rhino]

That's just the non-stealthy damage. They're not letting you see the stealthy, double secret probation damage. :lol:

[Patriot Heart]

When did this happen?

[DesertFox]

No matter how much it saves in electricity costs, they just can't keep lining the runway with ten-cent birthday candles.

[Incident_command]

When did this happen?


1 or 2 months ago. All punched out.

[Elgalad]

Here's the thing.. :question:

I love me some B-2's. I've loved them ever since the 1980's when all the liberal whiners in the Senate had their conniptions over how much each one of them costs..

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Look at that big ol' beauty, looking for all the world like a stone cold sexy vampire bat on the prowl for a long cool drink of Commie devastation..

I wanted HUNDREDS.

I wanted the sky so full of these beauties that the old story about the passenger pigeons blackening out the sun would be replaced with a more modern version; The day the B-2 turned out the lights..

'Course all of this was back in the glorious '80's. Cap Weinberger's "trillion dollar defense budget' and all that.. Back then we simply could not spend ENOUGH coin of the realm to send Gorby packing all the way back to his dacha in the Crimea.

So back then, and as naive as I was (wet behind the ears whelp) that sorta cheddar seemed like no big deal.

<<< !Hop in that Delorean and Flash Forward 20 years! <hop in="" that="" delorean="" and="" flash="" forward="" 20="" years.="">>>>>

I guess it's just a little different today. No, it's Definitely Much different today.

Because now I look at that picture of that ragged tarp and I don't see the charred wreckage of a state of the art stealth bomber named "Spirit" underneath.


I see the smoldering ashes of $2.1 billion. :sad:


What I'm getting at is: I fully understand the need to keep our defense budget solid and healthy. But if we are going to invest THAT much of it in individual pieces of equipment (however devastatingly beautiful), then by damn, they had better be absofrickinglutely Crashproof.

I'm not just sayin' this time. :flame:


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-Elgalad</hop>

[dPrasse]

But if we are going to invest THAT much of it in individual pieces of equipment (however devastatingly beautiful), then by damn, they had better be absofrickinglutely Crashproof.


-Elgalad</hop>

Well , until God starts building defense equipment , I doubt we'll ever see absofrickingly crashproof anything ...

I'd say the track record of those birds is pretty remarkable and well worth the investment ...

[Rhino]

When did this happen?February 23rd.