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US Air Force Unveils New B-21 Bomber​

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That looks more like the Early Boeing Lockheed concept model than the Northrop models, and a lot closer to the B2.

 

[Jura The idiot]

That looks more like the Early Boeing Lockheed concept model than the Northrop models, and a lot closer to the B2.

LOL bro sorry you didn't like it, but you can come with the name anyway:
Air Force Releases Image of Future Bomber, But What to Call It?

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This is where I am challenging and I’m calling on every airman today, we want our active duty, our National Guard, our Reserve, our civilians, our family members, we’d like all of you to give us your best suggestions for a name for the B-21, America’s newest bomber.”

 

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The US Air Force has revealed its bomber for the 21st century, the Northrop Grumman B-21 long-range strike bomber.

The official designation comes as the air force for the first time releases an artist's rendering of the still-classified bomber — a flying wing design similar to the Northrop B-2 and the company's concept for the previous Next-Generation Bomber (NGB) project.

The air force hasn’t purchased a new bomber in this century and is still dependent on 54-year-old Boeing B-52H and 28-year-old B-1B. Its 21-year-old B-2 Spirit, the only in-service stealth bomber, will be in use through 2060, officials say.

Revealed at the closing of her “state of the air force” address in Orlando, Florida today, USAF secretary Deborah Lee James revealed the official B-21 designation to rapturous applause.

“Our fifth-generation global precision attack platform will give our country a networked sensor-shoot capability that will allow us to hold targets at risk in a way the world and our adversaries have never, ever seen,” says James.

Many bomber experts have been pushing the B-3 tag as a sequential follow-on to the B-1 and B-2. However, Mitchell Institute dean David Deptula believes the new designation reflects that fact that it is the air force’s premier bomber platform for the 21st century.

“It’s not surprising in terms of the shape based on the physics of low observability, but it’s good that we have an artist’s rendering out and the designation is a good one too,” says the former three-star air force officer.

The air force picked Northrop’s design in October and is proceeding with development after the US Government Accountability Office rejected losing team Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s bid protest.

The new stealth bomber will cost $23.5 billion to develop and is worth $564 million per aircraft, according to US government estimates.

USAF wants 100 B-21s, but Deptula believes the true requirement should be 174.

“We need 174 of them,” he tells Flightglobal after the announcement. “We need a minimum of one squadron for 12 air expeditionary forces to establish the rotational base requirement during peace time to be able to shape and maintain peace and stability around the world.

“We need that number to maintain the ability to support our national security strategy to engage in two major regional conflicts if, in fact, it’s necessary to go to war, particularly in the advanced threat environment that has been growing.”

Northrop’s bomber team was characteristically coy in its response to the unveiling: “Northrop Grumman is proud to serve as the prime contractor for the B-21 Bomber in partnership with the US Air Force, to deliver a capability that is vital to our national security. Any further questions should be directed to the air force.”

This, in essence, is going to be a slightly smaller, upgraded and modernized B-2...thus the B-21 designation.

 

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First datas, 20 % more smaller about.
Remains a good big boy but " Bubba " ( it will recognize ) prefer fighters more pretty chicks

B-21 for 21th Century maybeee

 

[Air Force Brat]

LOL bro sorry you didn't like it, but you can come with the name anyway:
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"Sooper Snooozer", that is such a disappointment?? 550 million?? might as well figure a billion a pop, what a waste? on so much ugly. So B787 this is what I was talking about not assuming what comes later will be superior.

Time to resurrect the Heavy Raptor, these slo birds are ultimately gonna be losers, the USAF has sold its soul to the devil.

 

[TerraN_EmpirE]

The mission is needed brat, 75 year old B52s are harder to justify as they move closer to the century mark. And B1 is respectable but numbers and needs.
A fighter bomber is nice but they can't pack the bomb load of a bomber.

 

[Equation]

The mission is needed brat, 75 year old B52s are harder to justify as they move closer to the century mark. And B1 is respectable but numbers and needs.
A fighter bomber is nice but they can't pack the bomb load of a bomber.

They can always make the SR-72 as a heavy strike bomber, money pending of course.

 

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AFA 2016: Boeing offers F-15C upgrades to USAF

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Boeing is offering the US Air Force (USAF) a series of life-extension modifications to its F-15C Eagles that would allow the aircraft to better complement the service's stealthy Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.

Dubbed the "F-15 2040C" series of upgrades, the effort would double the number of air-to-air missiles the aircraft carries, extend its range, and upgrade its electronics, company officials told IHS Jane's ahead of the Air Force Association's annual conference.

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[TerraN_EmpirE]

They can always make the SR-72 as a heavy strike bomber, money pending of course.

B21 and the Prompt Global Strike SR72 concept bomber are totally different concepts and totally different operational capabilities. To understand why lets assume that both systems are deployed against targets in Syria.
Now the B21 would be based at a friendly air base in the region. It would take off and enter Syrian air space skirt the edges of search radars for systems like the Russian S300. And loiter waiting for tasking. It would stand by for tasking. And then return to base.
The PGS SR72 would take off from the continental U.S. Lets say Edwards AFB in Nevada. It would achieve operational altitude just past the California coast. It's altitude would be at the very edge of LEO its track would be along a orbital path. It would deploy it's weapons well still over the Indian ocean thousands of miles from there targets along a precise entry and trajectory. The PGS SR72 would be deploying attacks with the weapon following a sub orbital path. The weapon would bypass enemy defenses by dropping from space as such tasking would have to be done in advance.
So B21 is a conventional stealthy bomber.
A Strike version of the SR72 concept would be a long range penetrating strike platform, in essence the first stage of a ballistic weapon making it more strategic. A weapon better suited to range against the A2D concept by striking well past barriers, from launching points well away from them and on trajectories of more flexible nature then silos meaning that missile defense systems would have a harder time intercepting.

 

[Jura The idiot]

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"Sooper Snooozer", that is such a disappointment?? 550 million?? might as well figure a billion a pop, what a waste? on so much ugly. So B787 this is what I was talking about not assuming what comes later will be superior.

Time to resurrect the Heavy Raptor, these slo birds are ultimately gonna be losers, the USAF has sold its soul to the devil.