Posted on 09/12/2023 1:25:34 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
During Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown's speech at this year's Air & Space Forces Association's mega conference outside of Washington, D.C., the soon-to-be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs dropped two new images of the B-21 Raider. While the stealth bomber was rolled out in December of last year, it remains cloaked in secrecy. Brown, the top Air Force uniformed officer, didn't specifically reference the images in his presentation.
Up until today, only one angle of the full aircraft has been seen by the public — head-on — and in a very controlled environment at the bomber's unveiling. Aside from a close-up of the cockpit area at an angle, all imagery published since then has been from the same head-on perspective, although it has progressively shown the aircraft in more detail. Now we have our first quartering view of the flying-wing jet, which provides significant details about its design. A new head-on image also gives us a better idea of the bomber's actual size. Both images were taken at Northrop Grumman's facility at Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
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In zer wheelchair, of course!
Actually it has flown. Here’s a video of it flying from one month ago. The wing configuration confirms it is the B-21 Raider.
https://youtu.be/RcXDrnt8GcE?si=XHJXi8o-Y8v37Eqt
It’s a stealth but the B-21 is smaller than the B-2. It has a different wing configuration.
I’m sure stealth coating has come along way since the late 70s/80s.
The video description says it was filmed with "Digital Combat Simulator". It's not real.
Okay, thanks. 🙂
I’m going to miss the B-52
Our nation is bankrupt & finished. Who cares?
All those Nazis from “Operation Paperclip” sure have left their mark, and on NASA, too.
Klaxon, Klaxon, Klaxon!
Not a Messerschmitt. A Horten Ho 229
The B-52 isn’t going anywhere. It’s being upgraded with new Rolls Royce F130 engines so it’ll stay flying for decades.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/re-engined-b-52-b-52j/
Correct.
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It appears to not be coated with radar absorbing material. Not surprising, that stuff is expensive and finicky, and this test mule will never be sold. In my occupation we call it “engineering hardware.”
No - I meant ME as in Me Too (B21 looks like the German plane).
Until metal fatigue removes the wings.
American strategic planning, over the last 30 years, hasn’t put much value on artillery shells, or tanks.
US strategic power is based on the USAF and the USN, not the US Army. The US doesnt want to fight a continental ground war anymore.
This plan has many consequences. Among them is the change in the mission of the USMC, which has gotten rid of its tanks and most of its conventional (M777) artillery.
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