The Senate moved to save the B-2 industrial base. It's the name of the first B-2 at Whiteman, but it also describes an attitude. The Air Force anticipates the bomber fleet dwindling to 100 aircraft over the next ten years. It is counting on PGMs to enable them to do the job. By John T. Correll, Editor in Chief History is littered with assumptions that turned out to be colossally wrong.
War has a way of surprising the optimists.
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