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The Pentagon Cut the B-2 Bomber Program From $75,400,000,000 to $61,100,000,000 and Made Every Aircraft More Expensive. Cutting the Order From 132 to 21 Nearly Quadrupled the Cost per Bomber.
18+ hour, 6+ min ago (846+ words) What the money bought when it came to the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber: Four General Electric F118s at 17,300 pounds of thrust each, a 172-foot wingspan, 336,500 pounds maximum takeoff weight, 167,000 pounds of fuel and 60,000 pounds of payload, 6,000 nautical miles without a tanker, above…...
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO. The Glock 23 Is an Excellent Pistol and I Am Not a Fan of the.40 S&W Cartridge It Fires.
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (807+ words) Glock 23: Same compact frame as a Glock 19, 13+1 rounds, a striker-fired action with few moving parts, and thirty-six years of continuous production behind it — which means holsters, sights, magazines and triggers are everywhere and cheap. Owners routinely report tens of thousands…...
The US Air Force Built Only 21 B-2 Spirits and They Cost About $2,000,000,000 Each. It Wants at Least 100 B-21 Raiders at Roughly $750,000,000 Apiece.
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (498+ words) The B-2 cost $2,000,000,000 a copy because only 21 were built. The B-21 was designed from the start to avoid that, with cost written in as a performance requirement....
General Dynamics Is Delivering All 250 M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams Tanks to Poland in About 24 Months. Warsaw Ordered Them for $4,750,000,000 Along With 17 Bridge Layers and 26 Recovery Vehicles.
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (724+ words) General Dynamics Land Systems will finish delivery of the M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tanks ordered by Poland just two years ago, shipping all 250 Abrams off to Warsaw in just 24 months. Now one of NATO’s biggest defense spenders, Poland ordered the tanks…...
The Dassault Rafale Fighter Costs About $16,500 an Hour to Fly and an F-35A Costs About $42,000. The Rafale Is Not Stealthy, and It Is Selling Better Than It Ever Has.
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (657+ words) A Rafale costs roughly $16,500 per flight hour against about $42,000 for an F-35A. Dassault's answer to stealth is not to hide — it is to out-network what it cannot outrun....
The US Navy Fixed a Price on Stealth Technology Nobody Had Invented Yet, and the A-12 Avenger II Never Flew. 35 Years Later Boeing Lost $4,900,000,000 in a Single Year on the Same Kind of Contract.
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (1238+ words) Lockheed refused to bid. Northrop refused to bid, and told the Navy its cost estimate was at least $2,000,000,000 short. The contract fixed a price of $4,840,000,000 on stealth coatings, composites and a radar that did not yet exist. The team that…...
Boeing Spent $67,000,000 of Its Own Money Building the YF-118G Bird of Prey Stealth Aircraft. It Flew 38 Times on Landing Gear From a Beech King Air and an Ejection Seat From a Harrier.
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (932+ words) The YF-118G “Bird of Prey” was arguably one of the most unique, best-looking aircraft ever built. If you think it resembled a sci-fi spacecraft from Hollywood, you would not be wrong. The aircraft was named after the Klingon Bird of Prey…...
The US Air Force’s F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Is Fighting In a World It Was Never Designed to Fly In
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (498+ words) Lockheed Martin holds a $10,900,000,000 contract to modernize the F-22 Raptor. Production ended in 2011, so the US Air Force can never build another one to replace a loss....
China Is Launching A New Aircraft Carrier Every 20 Months. The US Navy Cannot Deliver One On Time — And The Gap Is The Shipyards.
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (1392+ words) Why can’t the U.S. Navy build aircraft carriers and submarines fast enough to keep pace with China? The answer is neither money nor will. It is that the United States has only two shipyards capable of building nuclear-powered warships, both…...
'A Mistake We Can’t Ever Fix’: The US Navy’s Seawolf-Class Submarine Shortage Makes Russia and China Smile as There Is No Fix
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (537+ words) Virginia-class production has run at roughly 1.1 to 1.2 boats a year since 2022 against a goal of two, while about 24 Los Angeles-class submarines remain in commission and continue to age out. If only the Navy had more Seawolf-class subs....