Australia should talk to Washington about buying B-2 stealth bombers
Australia should acquire B-2A stealth bombers to help defend against China, argue Euan Graham and Linus Cohen of ASPI.
Australia should acquire B-2A stealth bombers to help defend against China, argue Euan Graham and Linus Cohen of ASPI.
“We have 141 bombers in the inventory,” said Air Force Gen. Thomas Bussiere. “The demand signal for the bombers is greater than any time I’ve seen in my career, across the fabric of every geographic combatant command.”
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With only 20 bombers in the service’s fleet, that could translate to roughly $350 million in work per plane.
“The thing with the H-20 is when you actually look at the system design, it's probably nowhere near as good as US LO [low observable] platforms, particularly more advanced ones that we have coming down,” said a DoD intelligence official.
The Air Force recently confirmed the secretive plane was continuing flight testing out of Edwards Air Force Base.