January 21, 2020
The Air Force's New B-21 Stealth Bomber Will Be a High-Tech Doomsday Machine
Armed with nukes too.
by Kyle Mizokami
Key point: The B-2 is already a powerful and sneaky bomber armed with nuclear weapons. But the B-21 promises to be even stealthier and with new technologies that will make it the ideal weapons system to carry out a strategic attack.
On October 27, 2015, nearly thirty-four years to the day after Northrop Grumman was awarded the contract to develop the first stealth bomber, the U.S. Air Force awarded Northrop a contract for a new bomber: the B-21 Raider. While many of the details of the Raider are shrouded in mystery, we do know a few things about it, and can infer others.
The B-21 Raider bomber takes its name from both the twenty-first century and the legendary 1942 raid by Gen. James “Jimmy†Doolittle’s force of B-25 Mitchell bombers against targets in and around Tokyo, Japan. In invoking the Doolittle Raid, the Air Force is drawing attention to attack’s audacious nature, the strategic and tactical surprise, and the epic distances General Doolittle and his “raiders†flew to accomplish their mission.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/air-forces-new-b-21-stealth-bomber-will-be-high-tech-doomsday-machine-115696
