Originally Posted by
Cazalet33
Woohoo! Scarey, innit.
At that rate it will take them 215 years to make as many Blackjacks as B52s that have already been made.
"Bomber gap", anyone?
No way, that long - I couldn't calculate the timescale by myself....
Bomber gap - 50 in around 14 years would give a force of around 65, not far away from operational B-52 numbers.
Should bomber gap still interest you have a look at maybe B1-B vs Tu-22M3 numbers. What the Tu may lack is spec, it makes up for in numbers does it not?