The US Air Force has just released the first video of Northrop Grumman’s B-21 Raider strategic bomber taking off and in flight. Eventually, this aircraft will replace both the B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit bombers, making it the backbone of the Air Force’s flexible global strike capability.
The Raider’s airframe is a long-range, highly survivable stealth bomber capable of delivering a mix of conventional as well as nuclear munitions and will be the “air leg” of a nuclear triad. Northrop Grumman plans on building 100 B-21 Raiders, with the first set to be delivered to Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota by 2027.
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We’re really starting to strike up quite a cadence [and] generate two flight test flights in a given week. When we started this journey, we made a vow that we were going to design this system to be a daily flyer. It’s been a phenomenal year of progress, and we hope to continue that through the next year,” said Thomas Jones, Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems sector president.
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