September 11, 2020
The U.S. Air Force Wants More Than 100 B-21 Stealth Bombers
The size of the bomber fleet is actually rather small historically, so the branch wants more bombers to increase its number.
by Kris Osborn
The arrival of the B-21 is expected to more than triple the percentage of low-observable bomber aircraft in the Air Force’s fleet by adding larger numbers of a new “stealth†platform intended to reshape the service’s attack tactics and strategy for decades to come.
“100 or more B-21s will mean two-thirds or more of our bomber force will be low-observable, as opposed to 21-percent today,†“Major General Mark E. Weatherington, Commander, Eighth Air Force, and Commander, Joint-Global Strike Operations Center, told The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies in a video interview.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-air-force-wants-more-100-b-21-stealth-bombers-168752
