The Pentagon’s $55 Billion 'Long Range Strike - Stealth Bomber' Is Shrouded In Secrecy

Art: Northrop Grumman

Is The Pentagon’s $55 Billion Stealth Bomber Too Big a Secret? -- Daily Beast

The secrecy surrounding the new ‘Long Range Strike Bomber’ is more expansive than any aircraft program of its size since the 1980s. What are the generals and contractors hiding?

Like a dark planet that can only be detected by the visible orbits it perturbs, the Air Force’s new $50 billion Long Range Strike Bomber project will be ever-present but invisible in defense budget debates in the next few months. Sometime in early 2015, either a Boeing/Lockheed Martin team or Northrop Grumman will get the contract to design and build the new airplane.

But almost everything about it is secret, and that’s not necessarily a good thing.

The world of classified defense projects didn’t get the memo when a 2007 presidential candidate promised “the most transparent administration in history.” (It never does.) The black world rumbles on: mystery aircraft over Amarillo; public affairs officers discovering three-airplane B-2 missions that they previously categorically denied had happened; another burst of new construction at Groom Lake and mysterious movements at Edwards Air Force Base, with its more-secure southern sector being cleared of some unclassified activity.

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My Comment:  Once it takes to the skies for testing .... I am sure that is the time when all the pictures and some info becomes available to the public. But in the interim ... let the speculation begin.