December 5, 2020
The B-21 Raider is Going to Make the Air Force Deadlier Than Ever
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.
by Kyle Mizokami
Here's What You Need to Remember: The B-21 Raider is set to fly in the mid-2020s, and the Air Force plans to buy at least a hundred of the bombers to replace the B-52H Stratofortress and B-1B Lancer bombers. A larger fleet of up to two hundred bombers is possible, but entirely bound to fiscal realities. We don’t know what the Raider in its final form will look like, or when the Air Force will release more information on an aircraft it wants to carefully protect.
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.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/b-21-raider-going-make-air-force-deadlier-ever-173937
