B-1B B-2 and B-52. Wikicommons
Gregory Noddin Poulin, The Hill: The Troubling State of the Air Force's Long-Range Bomber Fleet
The latest installment of the Republican presidential debate last week saw an unlikely object become the scorn of GOP attacks: the B-52 strategic bomber.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush began the assault, lamenting the U.S. military has “a lack of readiness that is quite scary. We have planes that…Harry Truman inaugurated, the B-52.” Followed soon thereafter by retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who said, “our Military needs to be upgraded…Our B-52 bombers -- 50 years old…You know, if we don't get the military right nothing else matters.” Finally, also speaking to military readiness, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) added, “The air component…needs to be modernized. The B-52…is an outdated model that was flown by the grandparents of people that are flying it now.”
WNU Editor: If the past few years of U.S. Air Force procurements is any indication .... I have no reason to believe that the U.S. Air Force will do a great job in getting this project off the ground .... in fact .... I have more confidence that they will "screw it up".
