{"id":153666,"date":"2024-12-02T05:01:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T19:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/b-52j-vs-b-21-future-us-bomber-fleet-massive-age-gap\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T05:01:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T19:01:15","slug":"b-52j-vs-b-21-examining-the-us-future-bomber-fleets-massive-age-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=153666","title":{"rendered":"B-52J Vs B-21: Examining The US Future Bomber Fleet&#8217;s Massive Age Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reality is often stranger than fiction. In a world where warplanes need to be at the cutting edge of innovation, the             <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> is set to fly the brand-new sixth-generation             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"663468\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider<\/span><\/span> alongside the ancient             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60642\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/b-52\/\"  >B-52<\/a><\/span> Superfortress for decades to come. Despite some headlines saying the B-21 Raider is expensive (it is),         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2026463\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/b-21-raider-bomber-cost-control-project-success\/\" >it is currently on time and under budget and looks set to cost<\/a><\/span> around a third of the cost of the B-2 Spirits when adjusted for inflation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The B-52J and B-21 Raider are set to become the most unequal of strategic bomber counterparts into the 2050s.<\/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":[396,2038,1455,408,9588],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-52","category-bomber","category-history","category-northrop-grumman-b-21-raider"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153666","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=153666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153667,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153666\/revisions\/153667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}