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B-21 Raider: A Strategic Necessity or a Costly Redundancy?
« on: June 09, 2024, 06:12:56 am »
 
B-21 Raider: A Strategic Necessity or a Costly Redundancy?
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©"Gen. CQ Brown Jr highlighted the B-21 Raider as an example of successful design implementation for the Air Force under “Action Order D” of his goal to Accelerate Change. 

The U.S. Air Force's development of the B-21 Raider stealth bomber and the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter continues to raise eyebrows and fuel debates among military tech and politics enthusiasts.

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Re: B-21 Raider: A Strategic Necessity or a Costly Redundancy?
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2024, 06:21:02 am »
The USAF's problem is that it's always looking for the "next greatest thing" instead of further developing and improving what it's already got.  Hopefully, that stupid mindset is changing with the F-15EX, which is making a lot of waves this week!

First Operational F-15EX Arrives in Oregon; Milestone for Air Guard

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/first-operational-f-15ex-oregon/

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The first operational F-15EX Eagle II was delivered to Portland Air National Guard Base, Ore., on June 6, the first all-new weapon system to be delivered to the Air Guard before serving with the Active-Duty force.

The aircraft, serial #008, is the first of 18 that will serve with the 142nd Wing of the Oregon Air National Guard. Another 13 are slated to arrive within the next year, and four more in the years after that. Military construction is underway to accommodate the influx of new airplanes, which will backfill F-15C/Ds at the base. The jet was flown directly from Boeing’s production facilities in St. Louis, Mo., to Portland.

“It’s incredibly exciting, super humbling,” 142nd commander Col. Michael B. Kosderka of the Oregon Air National Guard told the Armed Forces News Network.

“This is the first time, to my knowledge, that an Air National Guard Base got a major weapon system before the Active component. So it’s a super big deal that the Guard is getting to have this major weapon system, first.”

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