America's newest nuclear stealth bomber is making its public debut after years of secret development and as part of the Pentagon's answer to rising concerns over a future conflict with China.
The B-21 Raider is the first new American bomber aircraft in more than 30 years. Almost every aspect of the program is classified. Ahead of its unveiling Friday at an Air Force facility in Palmdale only artists' renderings of the warplane have been released. Those few images reveal that the Raider resembles the black nuclear stealth bomber it will eventually replace, the B-2 Spirit.
"We needed a new bomber for the 21st Century that would allow us to take on much more complicated threats, like the threats that we fear we would one day face from China, Russia,"said Deborah Lee James, the Air Force secretary when the Raider contract was announced in 2015."The B-21 is more survivable and can take on these much more difficult threats."
Other changes likely include advanced materials used in coatings to make the bomber harder to detect, new ways to control electronic emissions, so the bomber could spoof adversary radars and disguise itself as another object, and use of new propulsion technologies, several defense analysts said. The cost of the bombers is unknown. The Air Force previously put the price for a buy of 100 aircraft at an average cost of $550 million each in 2010 dollars -- roughly $753 million today — but it's unclear how much the Air Force is actually spending."It might be a big challenge for us to do our normal analysis of a major program like this," said Dan Grazier, a senior defense policy fellow at the Project on Government Oversight.
Fewer than that are ready to fly on any given day due to the significant maintenance needs of the aging bomber, said Todd Harrison, an aerospace specialist and managing director at Metrea Strategic Insights. The new Raider will also get new hangars, to accommodate the size and complexity of the bomber, Warden said.
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Pentagon debuts its new stealth bomber, the B-21 RaiderThe United States' newest nuclear stealth bomber is making its public debut after years of secret development.
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Pentagon debuts its new stealth bomber, the B-21 RaiderAmerica’s newest nuclear stealth bomber is making its public debut after years of secret development and as part of the Pentagon’s answer to rising concerns over a future conflict with China. The B-21 Raider is the first new American bomber aircraft in more than 30 years. Ahead of its unveiling Friday at an Air Force facility in Palmdale, California, only artists’ renderings of the warplane have been released.
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Pentagon debuts its new stealth bomber, the B-21 RaiderThe B-21 Raider is the first new American bomber aircraft in more than 30 years.
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Pentagon to unveil its newest nuclear stealth bomber, the B-21 RaiderThe B-21 Raider is the first new American bomber aircraft in more than 30 years, and almost every aspect of the program is classified.
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Pentagon debuts its new stealth bomber, the B-21 RaiderWASHINGTON (AP) — America’s newest nuclear stealth bomber is making its public debut after years of secret development and as part of the Pentagon’s answer to rising concerns over a future conflict with China .
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