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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

US Air Force wants pilot-optional nuclear bomber

[Next Gen Bomber]When Matthew Broderick hacked into a defense computer in charge of the US’s nuclear arsenal and nearly caused a full-scale nuclear war in 1983’s War Games, Hollywood was far beyond reality.

However, thirty years have passed and now the US Air Force is looking to replace it’s hodgepodge of aging bombers from ancient B-52s from that first took flight in 1952 to the B-2 bomber that costs nearly $1 billion per plane with the Long Range Strike bomber.

While this promises to standardize the Air Force’s fleet, the one thing that will change is the desire for the nuclear bomber to be ‘optionally-piloted.’ The project, once cancelled, has been revived.

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