The U.S. Air Force’s New B-21 Stealth Bomber Is Under Construction

[rangerrebew]

December 14, 2019

The U.S. Air Force’s New B-21 Stealth Bomber Is Under Construction

The U.S. Air Force’s new B-21 stealth bomber is scheduled to make its first public appearance in December 2021. But there’s a lot of work to do before the plane can debut.
by David Axe

The U.S. Air Force’s new B-21 stealth bomber is scheduled to make its first public appearance in December 2021. But there’s a lot of work to do before the plane can debut.

The U.S. Air Force in 2015 awarded Northrop Grumman a $23-billion contract to develop the new bomber as a partial replacement for the service’s existing fleet of around 160 B-1, B-2 and B-52 bombers.

More than four years later, work is well underway on the first B-21 test plane, John Tirpak reported at Air Force magazine. Northrop is building the bomber at a secretive facility in Palmdale, California that previously manufactured Global Hawk spy drones.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-air-force%E2%80%99s-new-b-21-stealth-bomber-under-construction-105352

[Idiot]

December 14, 2019

The U.S. Air Force’s New B-21 Stealth Bomber Is Under Construction

The U.S. Air Force’s new B-21 stealth bomber is scheduled to make its first public appearance in December 2021. But there’s a lot of work to do before the plane can debut.
by David Axe

The U.S. Air Force’s new B-21 stealth bomber is scheduled to make its first public appearance in December 2021. But there’s a lot of work to do before the plane can debut.

The U.S. Air Force in 2015 awarded Northrop Grumman a $23-billion contract to develop the new bomber as a partial replacement for the service’s existing fleet of around 160 B-1, B-2 and B-52 bombers.

More than four years later, work is well underway on the first B-21 test plane, John Tirpak reported at Air Force magazine. Northrop is building the bomber at a secretive facility in Palmdale, California that previously manufactured Global Hawk spy drones.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-air-force%E2%80%99s-new-b-21-stealth-bomber-under-construction-105352

Looking forward to seeing this new bird fly daily above our skies.....  Just watching the B-1 fly now is an incredible sight.

[EdinVA]

"But service leaders haven’t mentioned that feature since 2018, Tirpak noted. That could imply that officials want to keep the capability as secret as possible."