Mike wrote:
Air Force FB-22 Bomber Concept
Christopher Bolkcom
Specialist in National Defense
Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division

Wow, Bolkcom must either have a stack of degrees twice his height, or
not know all that much about each of the issues he's assigned to cover.

Further, this concept has received little
mention during the second George W. Bush Administration and it is
unclear whether the idea is still being considered.

So it's a non-issue?

Also, some question the attractiveness of a
medium range bomber with a relatively small payload. House Armed
Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter, for example, commented that it was
"counterintuitive that, as we have lost basing ...our modernization
program has on the average encompassed acquisition of aircraft with shorter and shorter
legs - that is, almost no bombers; in fact, no bombers; lots of fighters"

Two words to bring this slightly on topic for this newsgroup:

Sea Base.

-HJC