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In this day and age, this is more of a white elephant, which main use is to keep the industry afloat and know-how state of the art. For the money, drones and m
by mytailorisrich 4y ago
In this day and age, this is more of a white elephant, which main use is to keep the industry afloat and know-how state of the art.
For the money, drones and missiles would probably deliver significantly superior results, or similar results for much less money.
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Actually the fact that it is launched to publicly suggests to me that they know that it's not that operationally useful...
- hunglee2 4y agoyes, I agree to an extent. This thing will also be able to deliver nuclear ordnance, something drones currently are not able to do, and for missiles-in-silo have a different kind of deterrence effect
- nradov 4y agoDrones and missiles will be used for many missions, but we are nowhere close to being able to build autonomous systems that can reliably handle changing situations. The B-21 will also be optionally manned, so it can eventually be used as a large drone to strike fixed targets by delivering specialized ordnance like the GBU-57.
- mytailorisrich 4y agoThat's rationalization. The B-2 hasn't been very useful. This one will be even less useful for an astronomical cost. They of course know it so they decided that they might as well make a show of the launch, IMHO. I'll make for nice flyovers at baseball/football games.
- nradov 4y agoThe B-2 and B-21 are deterrents and insurance policies. The whole point is not to be directly useful. They are the only survivable platforms that can deliver a large bunker buster munition in hostile airspace. That is now a "must have" capability, regardless of cost.