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B-2 question
How many B-2's are currently inservice and how many more are in the
production pipe, if any? Harley |
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Harley W Daugherty wrote:
How many B-2's are currently in service 21 how many more are in the production pipe, if any? ZERO. BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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"BUFDRVR" wrote
Billy Preston wrote: There was an attempt to fund more bombers as B-2C's and they would be non-nuclear, and take advantage of what's been learned since the first design (which is a lot). Except that eliminating the nuclear OFP and hardening would save little in comparison to the $400+ million manufacturing cost. The B-2C would still be a very expensive aircraft to build and operate. More like 700 million :-( I don't know if you have access to the numbers on logistics, but if you compare the B-2 with any other bomber, the costs are phenomenal. I was always in Ops squadrons when I was in the Air Force, and have never seen the kind of money that is in the B-2 budget for Palmdale, Tinker, and Whiteman. Working alongside Northrop has shown me how to make millions in minutes, for basically telling Generals and Colonels what they want to hear. Regardless if Northrop ever delivers. I had a guy who's been with Northrop for 20 years tell me that they are not updating the B-2 modification database, and they are delivering the wrong parts to the field. His boss in LA told him not to worry about it, because the Air Force has decided not to fund the database, and when they finally realize their mistake, they will be able to make millions fixing the problem, and only thousands if they were sustaining. |
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More like $370-$430 million, depending on length of produciton run.
The oft-quoted "$700 million" figure includes an allocated percentage of sunk costs. Those sunk costs have already been paid in the initial production run. The need to allocate additional start-up costs is not zero, and grows with every passing quarter as tooling, expertise, etc. evaporates. Even though the fixed costs of production are mujch lowere in a follow-on run, they are still not zero. And once again, the cost per unit will depend on the number of units produced. And to top it off, the "Logistics Costs" [sic] also depend on many factors; they are particularly sensitive to two issues: the technology involved (higher with the original buy; much lower on a follow-on buy), and the fleet size (economies of scale kick in with the follow-on buy). Steve Swartz "Billy Preston" wrote in message news:NrCSc.14$ni.10@okepread01... "BUFDRVR" wrote Billy Preston wrote: There was an attempt to fund more bombers as B-2C's and they would be non-nuclear, and take advantage of what's been learned since the first design (which is a lot). Except that eliminating the nuclear OFP and hardening would save little in comparison to the $400+ million manufacturing cost. The B-2C would still be a very expensive aircraft to build and operate. More like 700 million :-( I don't know if you have access to the numbers on logistics, but if you compare the B-2 with any other bomber, the costs are phenomenal. I was always in Ops squadrons when I was in the Air Force, and have never seen the kind of money that is in the B-2 budget for Palmdale, Tinker, and Whiteman. Working alongside Northrop has shown me how to make millions in minutes, for basically telling Generals and Colonels what they want to hear. Regardless if Northrop ever delivers. I had a guy who's been with Northrop for 20 years tell me that they are not updating the B-2 modification database, and they are delivering the wrong parts to the field. His boss in LA told him not to worry about it, because the Air Force has decided not to fund the database, and when they finally realize their mistake, they will be able to make millions fixing the problem, and only thousands if they were sustaining. |
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"Harley W Daugherty" wrote: How many B-2's are currently inservice and how many more are in the production pipe, if any? Harley 20 in service, with no current plans to produce any more. Posted via www.My-Newsgroups.com - web to news gateway for usenet access! |
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Billy Preston wrote:
I don't know if you have access to the numbers on logistics, but if you compare the B-2 with any other bomber, the costs are phenomenal. I have seen numbers in relation to $ per flying hour. They were shocking. BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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"Billy Preston" wrote .. I was always in Ops squadrons when I was in the Air Force, and have never seen the kind of money that is in the B-2 budget for Palmdale, Tinker, and Whiteman. Working alongside Northrop has shown me how to make millions in minutes, for basically telling Generals and Colonels what they want to hear. Regardless if Northrop ever delivers. I had a guy who's been with Northrop for 20 years tell me that they are not updating the B-2 modification database, and they are delivering the wrong parts to the field. His boss in LA told him not to worry about it, because the Air Force has decided not to fund the database, and when they finally realize their mistake, they will be able to make millions fixing the problem, and only thousands if they were sustaining. There's this problem. If Northrop performed work to create and maintain that (unfunded, unscoped) database and charged the labor to the government, someone would go to jail. |
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But again- you have to know "what goes in to" CPFH and how it is calculated-
and then it isn't so shocking anymore. There is an *awful* lot of "overhead" involved in fielding a weapon system- and then if you only have one of them, and it only flies one hour per year . . . I exaggerate; but you get my drift. Steve Swartz "BUFDRVR" wrote in message ... Billy Preston wrote: I don't know if you have access to the numbers on logistics, but if you compare the B-2 with any other bomber, the costs are phenomenal. I have seen numbers in relation to $ per flying hour. They were shocking. BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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"Paul F Austin" wrote
There's this problem. If Northrop performed work to create and maintain that (unfunded, unscoped) database and charged the labor to the government, someone would go to jail. Right. No "JN", no work. |
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