{"id":428918,"date":"2026-05-15T23:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-force-base-130-million-upgrade-handle-6th-generation-combat-aircraft-why\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T23:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:30:01","slug":"why-this-air-force-base-needed-a-130-million-upgrade-to-handle-this-6th-generation-combat-aircraft-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=428918","title":{"rendered":"Why This Air Force Base Needed A $130 Million Upgrade To Handle This 6th-Generation Combat Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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> (USAF) recently received its second representative Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider strategic stealth bomber prototype. <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2048214\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/b-21-raider-latest\/\" >The new bomber remains on course to enter service in 2027<\/a><\/span>. While the aircraft will be one of the most expensive in USAF inventory, it is expected to be much cheaper than the B-2 Spirits when adjusted for inflation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellsworth is requiring at least $1.5 billion in upgrades to host the B-21, with a similar amount needed for Dyess.<\/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-428918","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\/428918","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=428918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428920,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428918\/revisions\/428920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}