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Military aircraft - Post cold war aircraft, including for example B-2, Gripen, F-18E/F Super Hornet, Rafale, and Typhoon.
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by madrat » 02 Apr 2019, 11:50

XB-70 was built on such a large scale it was never sustainable. It would have been nice to see B-1B get more money to keep them ready, but they bore heavy funding cuts throughout the program.


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by sferrin » 02 Apr 2019, 12:53

madrat wrote:XB-70 was built on such a large scale it was never sustainable.


It would have been sustainable, you'd just have fewer of them. It's max weight was only about 40,000lbs more than a fully loaded B-52 and they built over 700 of those.
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