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soryang

(3,299 posts)
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 03:35 PM Nov 2020

USAF Plans To Expand Nuclear Bomber Bases

FAS November 17


By Hans M. Kristensen

The US Air Force is working to expand the number of strategic bomber bases that can store nuclear weapons from two today to five by the 2030s.

The plan will also significantly expand the number of bomber bases that store nuclear cruise missiles from one base today to all five bombers bases by the 2030s.

The expansion is the result of a decision to replace the non-nuclear B-1B bombers at Ellsworth AFB and Dyess AFB with the nuclear B-21 over the next decade-and-a-half and to reinstate nuclear weapons storage capability at Barksdale AFB as well.

The expansion is not expected to increase the total number of nuclear weapons assigned to the bomber force, but to broaden the infrastructure to “accommodate mission growth,” Air Force Global Strike Command Commander General Timothy Ray told Congress last year.


More:

https://fas.org/blogs/security/2020/11/nuclear-bomber-expansion/

Pretty good discussion of base storage changes and expansion of bomber force anticipated with detailed charts, nuclear arms limitations implications, etc.


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USAF Plans To Expand Nuclear Bomber Bases (Original Post) soryang Nov 2020 OP
God these people are psycho Blues Heron Nov 2020 #1
mission growth? lapfog_1 Nov 2020 #2
Good question soryang Nov 2020 #3

Blues Heron

(5,898 posts)
1. God these people are psycho
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 03:47 PM
Nov 2020

the world does not need this shite. What an absolute disgrace. Pinheads run amok.

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