{"id":145009,"date":"2024-10-29T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-reasons-usaf-b-21-fit-ngad-role\/"},"modified":"2024-10-29T20:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T10:00:16","slug":"5-reasons-the-usaf-thinks-the-b-21-raider-might-fit-an-ngad-fighter-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=145009","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons The USAF Thinks The B-21 Raider Might Fit An NGAD Fighter Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twz.com\/air\/b-21-taking-on-some-of-ngad-fighters-missions-on-the-table-air-force-says\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >The War Zone<\/a> recently reported that             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> Chief of Staff Gen. David Allivin as saying the NGAD             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"712748\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>6th generation fighter jet<\/span><\/span> is undergoing a deep review. Allivin was asked at an event, &#8220;<em>As the NGAD review goes forward, like, is it possible that what that ends up with could be the B-21 taking a larger role?<\/em>&#8221; Allivin replied, &#8220;<em>We have not taken that off the table<\/em>.&#8221;         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029246\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-ngad-not-f-22-raptor-replacement\/\" >Concerns about the aircraft&#8217;s high costs (expected to be $300 million or more each)<\/a><\/span> triggered the review in the NGAD. Emerging technologies (like advanced unmanned platforms) are also likely to be considered. Here are some reasons the B-21 Raider could partially fit an NGAD role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The B-21 Raider might be able to fit at least some of NGAD&#8217;s role as a penetrating command center controlling advanced drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12160,396,628,412,9588,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6th-generation-fighter-jet","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-northrop-grumman-b-21-raider","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145010,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145009\/revisions\/145010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}