Bomber program remains shrouded in secrecy

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Bomber program remains shrouded in secrecy
By Bruce Rolfsen - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Feb 9, 2009 6:02:08 EST

The Air Force’s new bomber program could be stealthier than the plane.

In nine years, the Air Force is supposed to be flying the next generation of long-range bombers, but the service continues to say little about what it expects from the bomber or how many it wants.

Barry Watts, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and a former Air Force pilot, tracks the bomber’s progress. The only information that Watts has seen in public about the bomber’s expected capabilities is a year-old comment from Gen. John Corley, head of Air Combat Command.

“I have a set of crisp, clear, requirements of which I cannot speak inside this room,” Corley told several hundred contractors, retirees and airmen gathered for a February 2008 Air Force Association symposium.

On Jan. 27, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he expected the upcoming Quadrennial Defense Review to set the bomber’s requirements. The review will begin in the spring and will wrap up by year’s end.


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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. let's call it the Madoff Bomber.

[leveymg]

2. Clue: the next gen bomber will be a VERY smart stealth cruise missile.

The B-2 was the last U.S. manned bomber.