Next Generation Bomber Battle Heats Up
Danger Room:
It looks like Northrop Grumman will face off against a Boeing-Lockheed Martin team to build the next generation bomber. Boeing and Lockheed, which cooperate heavily on the F-22 fighter announced the bomber teaming agreement today. Northrop produced the last Air Force bomber, the B-2.
Writing at Flight International, Stephen Trimble writes about what the teaming agreement might mean for the actual bomber the companies might propose:
The tie-up between Boeing and Lockheed could see the companies pool ideas exemplified by Boeing’s X-45C unmanned combat air system and the Polecat low-observable unmanned aircraft build and tested by Lockheed’s Skunk Works.
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Yeah lets just wait and see how much these cost.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:50 pmAll for it for 1/4 the price of B-2, no make that 1/10th
we’re lookin for a deal
So long as we remain in a state of war with Jihadistan, we should committ our limited resources to that war. Technology and research should continue…even so far as to build a test model or two. But that’s it. The Air Force and Navy needs to learn to focus their resources on the presnt conflict, before over-reaching into some future conflict.
What we need at the moment are bombs, bullets, transport and rations…not some big ass expensive new project.
January 25th, 2008 at 2:40 pmI wonder if a fast high flying bomber might be used as a platform to lanch anti-sattilite or anti-ICBM misiles.
January 25th, 2008 at 5:43 pm