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The Air Force’s big B-21 Raider bomber gamble

Key Points and Summary – The B-21 Raider is designed to replace the B-1B and B-2, backstop the aging B-52, and anchor America ...
America’s newest stealth bomber is moving from concept to reality faster than many expected, and the pace of work around it ...
The B-21 bomber, the first U.S. sixth-generation combat aircraft, is designed to conduct conventional and nuclear strikes.
" [An] addition of a second B-21 to the flight test program accelerates the path to fielding," said Air Force Chief of Staff General David Allvin. “By having more assets in the test environment, we ...
Northrop Grumman's Q1 earnings missed expectations due to significant cost growth on the B-21 program, leading to a 49% profit decline. Despite a challenging environment, the company maintained sales ...
A second B-21 Raider bomber has flown for the first time in California, the Air Force announced Thursday, a milestone officials say will accelerate testing of America’s first new long-range bomber in ...
The federal shutdown has halted discussions about accelerating the B-21 bomber program, Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden said Tuesday, six months after the company sank hundreds of millions of ...
April 22 (Reuters) - Northrop Grumman (NOC.N), opens new tab cut its annual profit forecast after it posted a 49% slump in first-quarter earnings on Tuesday, as it booked losses on its B-21 stealth ...
A second B-21 Raider will likely fly before the end of the year, according to an Air Force official who gave a small update on the highly classified program. “I believe it will happen before the end ...
The profits have the potential to measure in the hundreds of billions of dollars—so pouring $2 billion into a program as important as the B-21 Raider is possibly just a smart investment. Northrop ...
The mysterious, dark and secretive B-21 program inspires the imagination with a new realm of technological possibility, as it is widely anticipated to be the stealthiest platform the world has ever ...
Despite such similar names, there are fundamental differences between the United States Air Force's (USAF) B-2 and forthcoming B-21 bombers. At first glance, the two bombers seem very much alike. Both ...