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Old 29th Jan 2015, 01:30
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BenThere
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I do not believe that another bomber ever needs to be built.

Maybe not, but in GW1, Afghanistan 2001 , Kosovo, and GW11, resistance on the ground was broken by B-52 cluster bombing, not precision weapons.

Those B-52s will not last forever, and a platform capable of delivering high tonnages of devastating hell on ground enemy formations will always be a needed and key arrow in the quiver.

Whether the B-52 replacement will be manned or not is a good argument. I have no problem with totally automated, robotic warfare, so long as we remain at the leading edge of technology. Sadly, I think our advantage there has been neglected in favor of income equality.
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