Will America's New Stealth Bomber Replace The F-35 In Long Range Missions?

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David Axe, Daily Beast: Can a New Stealth Bomber Make Up for America’s Crappiest Warplane?

The Pentagon sank $400 billion into the F-35 stealth jet—only to have it come up way short. So they’re working on a secret new bomber to handle the job instead.

Government officials and aerospace executives have met in secret. Engineers have drawn up blueprints, crafted components, and assembled prototypes, all under strict confidentiality agreements. Lobbyists are prowling the halls of Congress and the Pentagon, smiling, shaking hands, exerting influence.

For the first time in more than three decades, the Pentagon and America's aerospace industry are uniting to build a big, expensive, high-tech stealth bomber. And that's a huge deal for the U.S. military as it tries to compensate for another warplane program that has gone outrageously off the rails.

WNU Editor: We are still a long way from having a functional and viable new stealth bomber .... but David Axe is onto something here .... the F-35 is useless for long range missions, but this bomber may be able to fulfil some of the operations that the F-35 cannot. At least (for now) that appears to be the goal.