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Originally Posted by XabbaRus
Some people have been reading too much Dale Brown.
Lets wait for the stealth B-52 proposal.
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I'm thinking more along the lines of his StealthHawks... For Railguns.. It has been worked on for years and the Navy is less than 2 decades away from a big deployment of the weapon. 2 decades is short compared with how long it took to get the FA/22 online and for the meantime our laser technology is good enough to zap planes and warheads midflight. In the meantime tho we do NOT need to be setting the military up for more embarrassing budget cuts by considering such crazy things such as this B-1R. More than likely the B-2 program is going to be cut and we don't need anything else going with them. The whole idea of a manned bomber is becoming more and more useless. Once F/A-22s and other aircraft remove the serious air defenses. B-52s can sit WELL out of range and basically act like transport craft doing airdrops of multitudes of cruise missiles. Like it was mentioned earlier. B-2s are RARELY sent alone and most of the time are used as Glorified B-52s. There will never again be a situation desperate enough to warrant sending multi billion dollar craft deep into protected territory. Therefore they are useless. And once other nations start deploying lasers... The age of manned bombers will end.