Eli5 why does the US still use a bomber from the 1950s when they have built two newer ones since then?
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The B-52 still carries out its mission in a more cost efficient manner.
We have 19 B-2s and around 102 B-1 Lancers. Those are our first strike aircraft.
Example: China hits us with a nuke or destroys one of our aircraft carriers. The gloves come off.
To avoid full scale nuclear war, we will hit back with a massive conventional strike.
First, we jam the satellites and radar.
Then, we send in hundreds of cruise missiles and Drones to knock out air defenses and command and control centers.
This is followed by the B-2 knocking out crucial military and political targets.
The B-1s follow up by obliterating military bases, naval ships, harbors, fuel storage and merchant marine ships/docks.
The B-52s come in and blow up key railroads, bridges, dams and manufacturing.
Assuming the war doesn’t go nuclear, it will be over in a couple of weeks.
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