"Tiger" wrote in message
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"Henry J. Cobb" wrote:

There will be a B3 manned heavy bomber.

The mission is not going away.

The big question is will the United States be able to build a bomber
that is a big enough improvement on the B2 to justify the development
before we run out of heavy bombers?

I think the answer is yes.

The big improvement of the B3 on the B2 is going to be the use of
woven nanotube construction in place of carbon fiber. It will be
larger, stronger and no heavier.

The crew expands to four. They take turns flying to and from the
battlefield and while on station one crewmember flies the bomber while
the other three operate sensors and UAVs.

The first B3s should enter service in the early 2020s. At a low level
of production they be able to take over as the primary heavy bomber in
2037 when the B52s and B1s are falling apart.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...rcraft/b-3.htm

-HJC

A B3 is not going to do any good for a guy taking sniper fire on a Bagdad
street corner!

And the fix for the guy taking sniper fire on a Bagdad street corner is not
going to do anything for the cruise missile fired from an offshore gunboat!
DUH! How meaningless can a response possibly get? I could never have
guessed.
Wait...a whole new genre of criticism is he
"Fixed a dislocated shoulder will not do anything for an ovarian cyst."
"Changing the transmission fluid is not going to get the CD player
working."
"Changing the baby's diaper is not going to address the fact that he's
stopped breathing."

Well, you get the idea. (Good freaking grief!)

We need basics, not more gizzmos. The budget will be stretched just buying
f22's & f35's.

I see. The military cannot solve more than one problem at a time. It's A OR
B, but C, D, E, F, G - Z must be totally ignored. (Rolling eyes and
groaning)