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Air Force

U.S. Air Force Needs to Neck Down to Two Bomber Fleet “As Quickly As Possible”

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, July 14th, 2021

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U.S. Air Force Needs to Neck Down to Two Bomber Fleet “As Quickly As Possible”

B-52Hs from the 2nd Bomb Wing line up on the runway at Barksdale AFB, La. last Oct. 14 before a readiness exercise (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Over the next decade, the U.S. Air Force wants to start necking down to a bomber force of two fleets--76 re-engined and upgraded Boeing [BA] B-52s and at least 100 Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-21 Raiders. "We've got to get to a two bomber fleet as quickly as possible," Air Force Lt. Gen. David Nahom, the service's deputy chief of staff for plans and programs, told a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies' Aerospace Nation virtual forum on July 14. In prepared…

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