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The B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Faces An Uncertain Everything
National Security Journal ^ | 7/15/2024 | Robert Farley

Posted on 07/16/2024 8:07:54 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111

At this moment, nearly every major Department of Defense program seems to be struggling. Technological bottlenecks, industrial capacity problems, workforce issues, and general bureaucratic confusion have produced delivery delays and cost overruns, even as the entire defense industrial base faces the challenge of competing with Russia and China.

The major exception to these problems appears, surprisingly enough, to be the B-21 Raider. The purpose of the B-21 program was to produce a new generation of strategic bombers to replace the B-1B Lancer and the B-2 Spirit. The subsonic B-21 is designed to use stealth to penetrate enemy air defenses and deliver conventional or nuclear payloads. The Raider was needed because of the age and technological obsolescence of the B-1B fleet (designed and built in a different technological reality) and the cost and small size of the B-2 fleet.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: b21; b21raider; defense; military; usairforce
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To: IndispensableDestiny

Very important point. The obvious problem with unmanned aircraft is the lack of a seat for the pilot.


21 posted on 07/16/2024 10:44:04 AM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer and CSP who also taught)
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To: whyilovetexas111

ping


22 posted on 07/16/2024 11:09:19 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Reno89519

B-52: 1955-2060 (atleast)

Enough said.


23 posted on 07/16/2024 11:30:52 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Reno89519
I wonder why if the B-52 can still do its mission, why we don’t simply build new ones, same with the A-10.

We would also have to rebuild the factory. Not impossible, just an added expense ... and then you have a 1960s heavy bomber and a 1970s close support bomber.

What we need is a Congress and a military bureaucracy that can get its act together ... and KEEP its act together ... so that our industry can design, build, and field new weapons and weapon systems before they're obsolete. Politically Correct groupthink leads to pointing fingers at the so-called "military industrial complex". That's BS. The problems begin with 525 morons and anti-patriots on Capitol Hill.

24 posted on 07/16/2024 11:37:09 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: shanover

That’s scary to think of 100 year old planes.


25 posted on 07/16/2024 11:43:01 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Trump / Vance 2024 - Make America Great Again)
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