In 2025 USD the bombers cost more than 4 billion per unit btw:
“By 1996, the program produced 21 B-2s at a total cost of $44.7 billion (equivalent to $91,820,000,000 in 2025) or average cost of $2.13 billion (equivalent to $4,370,000,000 in 2025) per aircraft, including procurement, development, testing, and production”
In 2025 USD the bombers cost more than 4 billion per unit btw:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_B-2_Spirit
…does this imply that a 50k/yr job in 1995 was equal to about 100k/yr now?? My gen z brain cant comprehend the world you people are from
Pretty much. The USD’s half life is 28 years.
I like that the answers you got are definitively “yes” and “no.”
“You people” 🥲
I was born in the late 1900s but i never got to really experience it. I do not remember a world before 9/11, Patriot Act, forever wars in the east.
I don’t think so. It probably goes further back, from whenever R&D started. No idea how much earlier though