USAF To Keep Existing Bombers Beyond 2040

Credit: Northrop Grumman
On any given day, only about 12 of 20 stealthy B-2s stand ready for missions to strike anywhere around the world—using conventional or nuclear weapons—from their home at Whiteman AFB, Missouri. The remainder are in testing or maintenance. This statistic is behind the U.S. Air Force’s push to spend...

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