Secdef Hopeful Cotton Wants More B-21s To Replace B-52s

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas , who tops President-Elect Donald Trump’s short list to lead the Defense Department, is urging the U.S. Air Force to retire the aging B-52 bomber and instead buy enough copies of Northrop Grumman’s next-generation B-21 to replace the legacy fleet. “Maybe we...

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