"Will America's New Stealth Bomber Replace The F-35..." Topic
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Tango01 | 09 Sep 2015 10:16 p.m. PST |
… In Long Range Missions?. "The Pentagon sank $400 USD billion into the F-35 stealth jet—only to have it come up way short. So they're working on a secret new bomber to handle the job instead. Government officials and aerospace executives have met in secret. Engineers have drawn up blueprints, crafted components, and assembled prototypes, all under strict confidentiality agreements. Lobbyists are prowling the halls of Congress and the Pentagon, smiling, shaking hands, exerting influence. For the first time in more than three decades, the Pentagon and America's aerospace industry are uniting to build a big, expensive, high-tech stealth bomber. And that's a huge deal for the U.S. military as it tries to compensate for another warplane program that has gone outrageously off the rails…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 09 Sep 2015 10:24 p.m. PST |
Maybe the LRSB can also beat the F-35 in a dogfight. But I can't shake the feeling that the new bomber will end up making the much maligned F-35 program seem like a bargain by comparison. |
Mako11 | 09 Sep 2015 11:56 p.m. PST |
"For the first time in more than three decades, the Pentagon and America's aerospace industry are uniting to build a big, expensive, high-tech stealth bomber". So, the B-2 is chopped liver? Granted, we only have a handful of them, but they were built in the last 30 years. Someone needs a better fact-checker. I at least hope they make the bomb bays on this bird big enough to hold the bombs it's intended to carry. The F-35 screw up on that issue was very embarrassing. |
Jemima Fawr | 10 Sep 2015 3:00 a.m. PST |
More strawman arguments and probably the most pathetic of the sorry bunch. The F-35 has never been designed to be a strategic bomber. As I've said before, it's only a matter of time before some loon criticises the F-35 for 'failing' to have the transport capacity of a C-130 or 'fails' to hover as well as an Apache… "I at least hope they make the bomb bays on this bird big enough to hold the bombs it's intended to carry. The F-35 screw up on that issue was very embarrassing." BS, as you well know, as it's been discussed here before. The only aircraft with a problem is the B variant and the SDB II didn't exist when F-35B was designed and built. It was Raytheon (the makers of the bomb) who made the cock-up – they had all the dimensions and specs, plus full access to F-35Bs and yet still managed to balls it up. It's not actually the bomb that doesn't fit, but the bomb-rack that mates the bomb to the aircraft. |
chaos0xomega | 10 Sep 2015 1:57 p.m. PST |
"Thirty-four years after aerospace giant Northrop Grumman snagged a lucrative contract to build B-2 stealth bombers for the Air Force, the Pentagon is getting ready to pick a new bomber." No. The B-2 is not chopped liver. RTFA. Or don't. The article is garbage. The Bomber project isn't really 'next gen', its using some very sophisticated technology, but its technology that is already developed, though not quite yet off the shelf (the RPO (Rapid Procurement Office, its the AF organization that is overseeing acquisition of the bomber, and different from the office that handled the clusterfeth that is the F-35) deals in technology thats 3-5 years out, not 20). The bomber won't do what the F-35 can do (assuming the F-35 can do what its supposed to do), it just doesn't have that advanced technology in it. |
Lion in the Stars | 10 Sep 2015 6:12 p.m. PST |
I wonder if there are any of the old B1 assembly jigs left? Applying some B2 tech to new-build B1s would be about the best option. New-build because the B1s are rapidly reaching the fatigue life of their airframes. Low-altitude flight at high speed is murder on an airframe. |
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