Saturday, February 23, 2008

Loss of a B-2

The US just lost nearly 5% of the B-2 fleet. CNN has a story here.

The story has a serious error of tense, however. The line, "Each B-2 bomber costs about $1.2 billion to build" is a grave error. It implies that we could just pony up another $1.2 Billion and acquire another.

Not so, the production line is shut down and each B-2 is now irreplaceable.


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