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The Pentagon Cut the B-2 Bomber Program From $75,400,000,000 to $61,100,000,000 and Made Every Aircraft More Expensive. Cutting the Order From 132 to 21 Nearly Quadrupled the Cost per Bomber.
9+ hour, 22+ min ago (846+ words) What the money bought when it came to the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber: Four General Electric F118s at 17,300 pounds of thrust each, a 172-foot wingspan, 336,500 pounds maximum takeoff weight, 167,000 pounds of fuel and 60,000 pounds of payload, 6,000 nautical miles without a tanker, above…...
The US Air Force F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Holds Speeds Above Mach 1.5 Without Ever Lighting an Afterburner. Its 2 Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 Engines Make About 35,000 Pounds of Thrust Each, and the Fleet Just Passed 1,000,000 Flight Hours on an Engine Last Built in 2013.
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (428+ words) Most fighters go supersonic by dumping raw fuel into the exhaust stream and emptying their tanks in minutes. The F-22 does it on dry thrust and stays there....
Japan's Mach 2.5 F-15J Fighter Won't Ever Fly for the US Air Force As It Was Custom Built for Tokyo
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (497+ words) Japan is the largest F-15 operator on earth outside the US Air Force, and has been for forty years. The rebuild costs more than most countries spend on new fighters. The F-15J is a real powerhouse....
The US Air Force Built Only 21 B-2 Spirits and They Cost About $2,000,000,000 Each. It Wants at Least 100 B-21 Raiders at Roughly $750,000,000 Apiece.
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (498+ words) The B-2 cost $2,000,000,000 a copy because only 21 were built. The B-21 was designed from the start to avoid that, with cost written in as a performance requirement....
A UK Ministry of Defence Official Says GCAP Fighter Will Carry Twice the Internal Weapons Payload of an F-35 and Control Uncrewed Aircraft Alongside It. Almost Nothing Else About the Aircraft Is Public.
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (548+ words) Japan put $1,270,000,000 into GCAP this year, Italy €8,800,000,000 and Britain £8,600,000,000 over 4 years. The F-35 they are competing with has cost about $412,000,000,000....
The US Air Force Retired the F-117 Nighthawk in 2008 and Never Stopped Flying It. The Service Now Says the Aircraft Will Stay in the Air Until 2034 — 26 Years After Its Own Retirement.
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (598+ words) The F-117 Nighthawk was retired in 2008. It is still flying, and the Air Force says it will keep flying until 2034 — longer in retirement than most aircraft serve....
The US Air Force Capped F-22 Raptor Production at 187 Aircraft at About $143,000,000 Each. In November 2009 a French Rafale Costing About 64,000,000 Euros Got Behind 1 and Took the Shot.
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (888+ words) America’s F-22 Raptor is one of the most advanced warplanes in the world. A fifth-generation air superiority fighter with advanced stealth and maneuvering capabilities, this plane was meant to strike an enemy fighter before it even knew the F-22 was…...
Northrop Spent More Than $750,000,000 of Its Own Money on the F-20 Tigershark Without a Dollar of Pentagon Funding. It Sold 0 Aircraft and Wrote Off About $1,200,000,000.
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (595+ words) Northrop built the F-20 Tigershark entirely with its own money. It out-turned the F-16, needed half the maintenance, cost less — and not one air force on earth bought it....
The Government Accountability Office Reviewed All 13 Programs in the US Air Force's $21,000,000,000 B-52 Modernization and Found 10 of Them in Trouble. The Engine Replacement Went From $3,000,000,000 to $15,400,000,000.
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (756+ words) It is the oldest bomber in the United States Air Force, and it is set to keep flying into the middle of this century — and potentially even beyond. The B-52 Stratofortress, the workhorse of the United States nuclear deterrent against…...
'We Are Not Effectively Allowed to Do Much at All With the Airplane': A Ukrainian Defense Executive on the F-16, and Why Ukraine's Industry Would Rather Have Sweden's JAS 39 Gripen
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (885+ words) As of today, the Ukrainian Air Force (PSU) operates two Western, 4th-generation fighter aircraft. These are the US-made F-16 and the French Dassault Mirage 2000. Both platforms are used models donated to Ukraine, with Belgium set to provide another seven F-16s by the…...