A USAF B-52 Stratofortress Bomber and a USAF B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Fly In Formation Over Shreveport During the 2008 Defenders of Liberty Airshow and Open House at Barksdale Air Force Base, May 10, 2008. Shreveport, State of Louisiana, USABye-Bye Bomber? -- Newsweek
For the first time in almost 40 years, the nuclear arsenals of the U.S. and Russia are unregulated by a mutual treaty: START—the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty—expired earlier this month. Envoys from both countries are working on an interim deal to extend START—then the goal will be to craft a new treaty. Negotiating that accord will take at least the remainder of President Obama's term. But already the Air Force worries how a new pact might affect the fate of its storied B-52H and B-2 bombers.
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My Comment: The Quadrennial Defense Review and other studies are looking for big projects to ax .... American's bomber fleet is just one of many that are now under the knife.
Should we be surprised .... no. As predicted, with the U.S. Government running trillion deficits, the focus will be to cut expenditures with the Pentagon being the first on the block .... and big cuts are coming.