USAF General defends the Long Range Strike Bomber...

via National Defense Magazine.

“There are publications out there that are already saying, ‘You don’t need this. It’s too expensive. It’s not going to work.’ We don’t even know what it is yet, per se,” Maj. Gen. Garrett Harencak, assistant chief of staff for strategic deterrence and nuclear integration said at an Air Force Association breakfast in Arlington, Virginia.
“It’s already starting. … They are already out there, the usual suspects that have been against every modernization, every recapitalization out there. Don’t listen to them ladies and gentlemen,” he said.
Harencak answered those who have suggested that the bomber’s mission could be carried out by other systems such as remotely piloted aircraft, or stand-off missiles

Interesting.  The USAF appears to be hyper sensitive to criticism of the LRSB. That is thrilling.   I don't think that talking points and propaganda will see this program survive a terrible defense budget environment.