Birdwatch Note Rating
2022-12-09 13:59:48 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: ED9BBE4F82F4DD176474E0B027B68FA553B3FC437B3AB42A6254750199F4B3E6
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Original Note:
Headline is misleading. It didn’t cost $2B for this single flight exercise of 8 planes. The $2B is how much each bomber cost when you include R&D into the sticker price. https://www.cnn.com/style/amp/b-2-spirit-stealth-bomber/index.html The flight cost of each B2 is $163k so still an expensive exercise to conduct, but not $2B expensive. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/pay-price-americas-unstoppable-b-2-stealth-bomber-did-not-come-cheap-199018
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