Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider - VibeWire Magazine

2 Years Since Its 1st Flight: What’s The Latest With The B-21 Raider?

The B-21 is the newest stealth strategic bomber, and it is progressing rapidly as it prepares to enter service in a couple of years.

The US Air Force remains the only air force in the world to possess stealth bombers, although this may soon change.

While the B-21 Raider may look similar on the outside, it differs in many ways from its predecessor B-2 Spirit.

The Air Force is considering holding off on CCAs for the B-21 for now while also considering increasing its order to around 145 bombers.

The B-52J and B-21 Raider are set to become the most unequal of strategic bomber counterparts into the 2050s.

The B-21 Raider’s per-unit cost appears to be around a third of that of the B-2 Spirit bomber.

Many advanced military aircraft were never exported – to protect the technology and sometimes because it was beyond other country’s requirements.

The B-21 Raider might be able to fit at least some of NGAD’s role as a penetrating command center controlling advanced drones.

As a super sensing and computing penetrating command center, the B-21 could use CCA to strike other aircraft.

The Air Force has shown one of its three B-21 bombers in test flights in California for the first time.