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Martin Matishak, Fiscal Times: The Pentagon Decides How Many Budget-Busting Bombers It Wants
Even though work on the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation bomber remains frozen, a top service official on Wednesday announced the number of aircraft it wants to buy.
“I believe the number is 100,” Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said during an event at the National Press Club in Washington.
The service has said it hoped to purchase between 80 and 100 Long Range-Strike Bombers, which are expected to cost somewhere around $560 million per plane.
“We’re looking to buy about 100, 80 to 100 but probably closer to the 100 mark. It’s going to take time for them to roll out so not all 100 are all going to be there in the mid-2020s,” James said in March during a panel discussion at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The effort’s total price tag could exceed $100 billion over the next few decades.
WNU Editor: No one believes in the Pentagon's numbers any more .... and that is the heart of the problem .... doubly so with the realization that there really is no money available for this program.
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