Air Force leaders gave an update on the B-21 Raider, a futuristic aircraft that is expected to become the United States' next nuclear stealth bomber. The aircraft can deliver both "conventional and nuclear munitions," according to a news release from the Air Force, but will be "critical ...
"Fifty years of advances in low-observable technology have gone into this aircraft," he said. "Even the most sophisticated air-defense systems will struggle to detect a B-21 in the sky." The Air Force said the "B-21" designation was chosen because the aircraft is the first ...
The U.S. Air Force revealed Sept. 19 that the service's new B-21 bomber will be named thern"Raider" in honor of Jimmy Doolittle's Raiders.rnThe Air Force picked "Raider" after holding a service-wide contest and reviewing more than 2,100 unique namernsubmissions. Months after the ...
Fu Qianshao, a retired equipment expert from the PLA Air Force, said the new Chinese bomber, popularly dubbed the H-20, will be more powerful than the United States' Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, now the mightiest bomber in the world, and will be bigger than the Northrop Grumman B-21 R...
Air Force depiction of the B-21 Raider bomber. The NGAD fighter wouldn’t work alone. In the concept art, two vertical lines emanate from the aircraft nose and are aimed upward, indicating connections to satellite and airborne communications nodes. ...
The Air Force's rollout of its new B-21 Raider stealth bomber in December was just one piece of the puzzle in creating a future two-bomber fleet. The biggest changes are yet to come. Rolls-Royce and Boeing are working on a major upgrade to the service's fleet of 76 Cold War-era B...
China’s H-20 stealth bomber is expected to introduce an entirely new sphere of threat dynamics Kris Osborn·February 24, 2023 Video Above:Colonel Michael Stefanovic, Director of the Strategic Studies Institute for the Air Force sits down for an exclusive interview with Kris Osborn ...
In a follow-up statement, a Pentagon spokesperson said that will include the B-21 Raider stealth bomber the Air Force now has in development with Northrop Grumman. But the U.S. now does not plan to deploy it on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Pentagon said. ...
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