{"id":428138,"date":"2026-05-15T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/worlds-most-advanced-stealth-bomber-co-pilot\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:00:19","slug":"will-the-worlds-most-advanced-stealth-bomber-have-a-co-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=428138","title":{"rendered":"Will The World&#8217;s Most Advanced Stealth Bomber Have A Co-Pilot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2023177\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/b-52-bomber-usaf-history\/\" >1950s era Boeing B-52 comes with a crew of five<\/a><\/span> (pilot, copilot, weapon systems officer, navigator, electronic warfare officer), and the 1970s\/80s era B-1 has a crew of four (aircraft commander, pilot, offensive systems officer, and defensive systems officer. The 1990s B-2 Spirit further reduced this to just two (pilot and mission commander). But how many crew will the incoming Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider have? The short answer is two, but really, this appears to be a trick question with the answer being zero, one, or two pilots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force is looking to replace the B-21&#8217;s co-pilot with a WSO with a virtual co-pilot taking over the role, eventually it may replace the pilot.<\/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":[396,412,240,9588,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-military","category-north-america","category-northrop-grumman-b-21-raider","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428138","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=428138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428139,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428138\/revisions\/428139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}