Air Force announces name of next long-range strike bomber

[rangerrebew]

Air Force announces name of next long-range strike bomber
By Jacqueline Klimas (@jacqklimas) • 9/19/16 11:11 AM
 

The Air Force announced on Monday that the new B-21 long-range strike bomber will be called the Raider.

Retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole, the last surviving airman of the Doolittle Raiders, announced the name at the Air Force Association's Air, Space and Cyber conference at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md.

The Doolittle Raid in 1942 was the first U.S. strike against the Japanese mainland in World War II following the attack at Pearl Harbor. It was planned by then-Col. Jimmy Doolittle.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/air-force-announces-name-of-next-long-range-strike-bomber/article/2602177

[rangerrebew]

With Imam Obama in the WH, I'm surprised the military didn't name it something like "the flying carpet" or "the Mohammed."

[uglybiker]

Or the Rainbow Surprise!

[Oceander]

Not to pick on then-Col. Doolittle, but I suppose it wouldn't have been the best to call it the "Doolittle" in his honor.