How The Air Force Sold Its Risky New $55 Billion Bomber

A B-2, B-52, and B-1

Bombs Away: How The Air Force Sold Its Risky New $55 Billion Plane -- Danger Room

In an instant, four tons of steel and explosives slammed into the 522-foot-long warship Schenectady, blowing it apart in a cataclysm of smoke, dust and sound. Overhead, a pair of U.S. Air Force Boeing B-52 bombers orbited, one of them having just released four laser-guided bombs. The huge, eight-engine warplanes had flown directly from Louisiana to attack the decommissioned Navy landing ship as part of an exercise near Hawaii on Nov. 23, 2004.

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My Comment: What struck me in this report was this tidbit of information ....

.... Today the Air Force possesses just 60 B-1s and 20 B-2s. The 70 surviving B-52s still form the backbone of the bomber fleet, more than 50 years after they entered service.

In short .... the U.S. Air Force has only 150 bombers in their inventory.