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Country. no other country on earth has anything like this. this is not an all-purpose vehicle. this is a very unusual plane. it has very unusual capabilities and capacities. for one thing, this plane can carry a huge payload in terms of its munitions. the plane itself -- it has this unusual bat wing design. we think of it like a sleek arrowhead in the sky but, a, it is huge and, b, it can carry a huge payload of bombs. let's say you want to drop a 500 pound bomb on this earth somewhere, this plane can hold 80 of them, 8500 pound bombs. it has a 40,000 pound payload capacity for bombs. it can a...

Think about that for a second. i mean just for perspective, you've heard how they're going to cut the entire budget for the national endowment for the arts, got to slim down, can't afford it anymore. one of these planes is ten times the annual budget of the national endowment for the arts, one plane. in part because of that enormous cost, there are not many of these planes. our entire national fleet of them consists of 21 planes, and then that one crashed in 2008 and that means we're down to 20 of them in total in the whole country. no other country on earth has anything like this. this is not...

National endowment for the arts, one plane. in part because of that enormous cost, there are not many of these planes. our entire national fleet of them consists of 21 planes, and then that one crashed in 2008 and that means we're down to 20 of them in total in the whole country. no other country on earth has anything like this. this is not an all-purpose vehicle. this is a very unusual plane. it has very unusual capabilities and capacities. for one thing, this plane can carry a huge payload in terms of its munitions. the plane itself -- it has this unusual bat wing design. we think of it like...