Tuesday, July 8, 2025

The Size of That Thing!

 


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  1. The cost/waste of that thing...

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    1. Your tax dollars ar work.
      -lg

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    2. worth every dollar and not a penny more

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    3. i just love this "we" kemosabe
      sheet.
      "we" ain't mattered, nor worth a bucket of warm chew spit, since the day named 911

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    4. Expensive, yes, but very much worth it.
      As far as waste, I'm really happy a bunch of B-2s laid waste to the Fordow facility before Iran got nukes.

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  2. As long as we don't give them to Israel or the Ukraine

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    1. we?
      Don't drag me into that criminal equation.

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  3. I hadn't realized how enormous those are.

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  4. 4... 3... 2... 1- "that's what she said."

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  5. take a look at the production pictures of the B-36 and B-52
    if you want to see big

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  6. Ridiculously large windows for a bomber….

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  7. Overhead crane view.

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  8. Its mind blowing boondoggle to keep legacy big daddy warbucks/central-tier1 banks flush,
    thus backdoor funds laundered in trillions to DS/global domination game:operations
    its where all the wealth's the good folks created since 911
    the zionists/Rothschilians get their cut
    better yet, its obsolete and they all know it
    the russain's run operational 6th gen L band ISR, can see it-kill it, like its high noon from 400-500 miles, S-500 Prometheus anti air system
    might as well coat it with aluminum foil, rattle can it ghetto/hillbilly flat black, call it a day

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    1. Say the anonymous "expert."

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    2. C’mon Grampa, it’s time for your nap

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    3. If anyone talks about L band radar as a solution to stealth it's as clear as broadcasting, "I don't understand radar" as loudly as you can.

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    4. ...aaand, the surveillance trolls come out. How come you guys aren't following people around in walmart?

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  9. What always blows my mind is just how few actual craftsmen are required to build these sorts of things. Yes I know there are thousands of people involved but I'm not talking management or QA or all the rest of the non artificers. I used to stand above the ULA complex at 0T3 and watch as half a dozen people would build fuel tanks for ULA rockets. The same half dozen going from jig to jig from one end of the hangar to the other and all the way back up to the other end where the finished product was fully assembled for shipping.

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  10. I can’t believe they cost so much to build. I mean look, they use tape to put it together at all the seams!

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    1. A lot of the program cost was for research, development, test, and evaluation. All that RDT&E doesn't build an airplane that goes to a squadron. It builds 'airplane number zero', the most expensive airplane. Once the design is fully developed and proved out, that's where the production cost comes in. Testing was expensive for the B-2 but worth every penny.

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  11. The goat humping Iranians wish we didn’t have them too. I’d rather we continue to be the badass, and we will, regardless of what you naysayers think. The graft and corruption should be stopped but it never will. God bless our military. ET in Dixie

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    1. silly ass 4:10 imagines itself as a bad ass....LOL

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  12. Such a waste of wealth, its intrinsic value is close to zero, long doubted the price tags on these "advanced weapons" is 80-90% money laundering, look what Kelly Johnson built with funds provided, and now all that money gone into banksters pockets.

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    1. It's good to be cynical, but you should try to be cynical about the right things.

      The intrinsic value of a bomber that gets to the target and can destroy a nuclear weapons factory under a mountain is very high. The price tag on these weapons is because the very best is not cheap.

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  13. Was a boondoggle to begin with, isn't stealthy, enormously expensive and no longer pertinent in an unmanned drone world. Still fighting the last war.....

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  14. "isn't stealthy" is an interesting take from the uninformed. I'm not allowed to tell you how stealthy it is, so let me just say you are very wrong.

    No longer pertinent? Did you miss the attack on Fordow? it was in all the papers.

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