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Re:The B-52 was designed in a hotel room over one weekend by bee_rider on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @10:59AM (#32838195)
Wonder what a from-scratch B-52 equivalent would look like nowadays. I don't think they could resist the urge to give it a gimmick. Who wants to design a bomb truck?!?
Re:The B-52 was designed in a hotel room over one weekend by qbrass on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @01:18PM (#32840248)
You mean like a giant, tailless, stealth, flying wing? Or would that would be too gimmicky?
Re:The B-52 was designed in a hotel room over one weekend by bee_rider on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @02:32PM (#32841291)
The B2 is great.

But, while stealth is really useful, it does require some trade-offs. Since B-52 is only useful in cases where stealth isn't required, and it seems to still be in use, I guess if the B-52 were hypothetically retired there'd be room for a non-stealth replacement. Unless the techniques they developed to come up with the F-22 and F-35 opened up a possibility of a zero-compromise stealth design (I'm skeptical, but I don't know anything about plane development).

Re:The B-52 was designed in a hotel room over one weekend by HPsquared on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @11:23AM (#32838488)
The gimmick is that it's really big, I suppose.