US Air Force LRS-B Bomber Thread - the B-21 Raider

[gelgoog]

and China will have H-20 in meaningful numbers. Not sure about Russia tbh.

PAK DA will probably be stuck in development hell just like the Tu-160M and the Tu-22M3M. Too many bomber programs I think.
The engine for PAK DA, Izdeliye RF, is in bench testing. The airframe is being built. The demonstration model is supposed to be ready next year. But I doubt that will be a flying prototype. At least it won't be flying with Izdeliye RF for sure. Will take a minimum 2 years for the engine to go from bench testing to production and I think 5 years is more likely. Of course there is a possibility the prototype will use the NK-32-02 or some other already available engine initially so who knows.

 

[SlothmanAllen]

I wonder what the production rate of the B-21 will be? If they are looking to have ~150-200 bombers of this type, I would assume that would be around ~15 aircraft per year at peak. Anything significantly smaller would drag the production run on for a long time.

 

[Sinnavuuty]

I wonder what the production rate of the B-21 will be? If they are looking to have ~150-200 bombers of this type, I would assume that would be around ~15 aircraft per year at peak. Anything significantly smaller would drag the production run on for a long time.

Northrop says it can only produce 6 B-21s a year at full production. Even if the industry positions itself to create a viable supply chain to increase this production, it will likely be purchased for no more than 8-10 B-21s per year on a sustained basis.

 

[SlothmanAllen]

Northrop says it can only produce 6 B-21s a year at full production. Even if the industry positions itself to create a viable supply chain to increase this production, it will likely be purchased for no more than 8-10 B-21s per year on a sustained basis.

Do you have a link to this statement?

 

[Broccoli]

Northrop is building six B-21's + one shown and that means they could have 13 manufactured by 2024. If they build only six each year.

 

[Sinnavuuty]

Do you have a link to this statement?

It's going to be hard to find it now.

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[CMP]

The most important part of the article: “It’s easy for people to make claims that the acquisition process worked well in the case of the B-21 at this point because it hasn’t flown yet,” Grazier said. “We’re not really going to know that until it flies, for one, and then when it goes through operational testing. That’s when we’ll know if the acquisition process actually worked.”

 

[anzha]

Welp. I thought I'd just missed checking on the thread and wondered what others had said. Nothing has been in a long time.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1722993343485866184

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[Scout]

Chinese Yang Wei, chief designer of J-20, speaks about B-21. Actually he was criticizing specifically the digital design process used for the b-21.
Do we have full video, text what he said?

 

[Michaelsinodef]

Chinese Yang Wei, chief designer of J-20, speaks about B-21. Actually he was criticizing specifically the digital design process used for the b-21.
Do we have full video, text what he said?

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Should apparantly be the full video of the presentation.