In terms of raw firepower, the B-2 will actually remain the more powerful aircraft of the two. However, in the context of the ...

Four years after a landing-gear failure severely damaged a B-2 Spirit bomber at Whiteman Air Force Base, the jet has returned ...

The B-21 Raider is designed to replace the B-1B and B-2, backstop the aging B-52, and anchor America’s long-range strike and ...

November 3, 2025: The new American heavy bomber, the B-21 is an 81-ton, twin engine aircraft that can carry nine tons of bombs and missiles. It is 16 meters long with a 40 meter wingspan. B-21s will ...

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 ...

Northrop Grumman is contracted to produce at least 100 of the long-range strike aircraft, which will carry conventional and nuclear weapons. The new bombers will replace the aging B-1B Lancer and B-2 ...

The B-21 bomber, the first U.S. sixth-generation combat aircraft, is designed to conduct conventional and nuclear strikes.

On December 2, 2022, the U.S. Air Force officially unveiled its new bomber: the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider. Painted in bone white, built in a flying wing design, the B-21 was touted as the world's ...

The second B-21 Raider stealth bomber fittingly flew on Sept. 11, from its factory in the high desert of Palmdale, California, to adjacent Edwards Air Force Base. The B-21 Raider is the most ...

Addition of second production-representative test aircraft enables acceleration of weapons integration testing and maintenance procedures development as the USAF prepares for operational fielding of ...