Originally Posted by Donald
How much $$ did it cost to move them to Qatar? I do not know all the ordinance a B52 can handle but it would seem if we wanted to do something in Iran we would use a B2.
Just 1 B-2 is worth over $2,000,000,000.00. Yes. 2 Billion dollars. In my opinion (and I'm a huge supporter of the military), that's a colossal waste. I think that money would be a lot better spent to support defense in other ways. But anyway...
It does seem pretty risky to even think about the idea of sending the B-2 or B-52 into Iran. I'm quite sure Iran has the latest, greatest Russian SAMs.
A massive cruise missile strike is a more likely scenario, IMHO. I think the B-52s being deployed over there is just us shaking a big stick. Not saying we'd never do it (I like the idea of never taking any option off the table), but things would have to get pretty bad for us to send B-52s into Iran, because there would almost certainly be losses to SAMs.