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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.

Story Roundup

Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

Situation Report

A State Department map that relocated most of Africa, one ambitious government travel card, and 5,200 medical students moved from dorms that definitely do not have mold.

New stealth bomber completely undetectable by budget oversight

THE PENTAGON – The Air Force’s next generation stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider, is reportedly not only invisible to radar but also completely undetectable by budget oversight, according to sources at the Pentagon and Capitol Hill.

“A conventional bomber would have a budget signature hundreds of times that of the Raider,” explained Northrup Grumman project manager Dave Coleman. “You can see the price tag a mile away. But the B-21 is practically magical in how it escapes even the most probing questions on whether the taxpayers are getting their money’s worth.”

While each bomber is estimated to cost at least a half a billion dollars each, due to the ultra-sophisticated oversight evading technology used by the Raider, the overall cost is effectively invisible. Some have estimated the program to approach $100 billion, but when asked for comment, Coleman laughed, and then threw down a pellet that created a smoke screen, allowing him to slip away.

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