Originally posted by wildcat
If we have aircraft such as the B-2 and the Raptor we dont need another aircraft. Plus funding for these things is horrible just look at the B-2, that
project was almost dumped for its bill. So the US is rich but not that rich. Believe it or not, the government has these weird projects like studying
how Americans wash their dishes and bicycle study.
[edit on 23-4-2006 by wildcat]

You obviously forgotten one of the basics of modern air superiority. By the time it's an operational aircraft, it's obsolete technology. The
funding for the B-2 and Raptor is pure fiscal smokescreen for projects like the Aurora and Super Valkyrie. Not even the best auditors at the GSA can
penetrate the maze of the defense budget much less the black defense budget. Like the the guy said in the movie, Independence Day, you really didn't
believe the gov't paid $2k for a hammer.
I would like to see less of my money spent on defending corporate interests and foreign oil fields and more on the Super Valkyrie style projects. If
you're some nuclear armed terrorist trying to penetrate the country through one of the borders and a ufo style craft comes and beams them aboard and
drops them off in shark infested waters far off the major shipping lanes, wouldn't you say it's money well spent? Be afraid of what you know, be
more afraid of what you don't know.