The B-21 Bomber Could Be the Coolest Plane EverAnd now the long-awaited Raider is finally under construction.

https://www.popularmechanics.com ^ | BY KYLE MIZOKAMI | JAN 22, 2021

[SkyDancer]

Until Biden cancels it.

[ml/nj]

Coolest plane ever?

CANCEL THE PROGRAM.

ML/NJ

[mylife]

WTF is the top pic?

[Red Badger]

Artist’s conception of the B-21....................................

[Demiurge2]

Yea, but where does the tail gunner sit?

[mylife]

top pic looks like a wood plane

[Demiurge2]

Don’t know what all the fuss is about... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/North_American_XB-21_4.jpg/300px-North_American_XB-21_4.jpg

[Don W]

No, this is the coolest plane ever!

[Sirius Lee]

A jet without exhausts. That is pretty cool.

[Sirius Lee]

The wobbly swan.

[brownsfan]

“Until Biden cancels it.”

Exactly. Why would they want such capability? The only kind of conflict they will engage in, is either putting down domestic rabble, or a meaningless war somewhere that will spill blood for no reason other than to keep the military-industrial complex going.

[jacknhoo]

I was working on the upgrade for the B2 when Obama came into office and killed the program and my job.

Biden will do the same to this program.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Ditto.

[the OlLine Rebel]

There’s cool, and there’s useful.

I’m biased because my father worked on the B-1 for some 30 years. He was very biased and resentful of all the adulation given the B-2 because of “stealh” and flying-wing design, but as he would spout, the B-1 did alot more work than the B-2.

If the B-21 is smaller, as the SSN-774 was smaller than the SSN-21 (never mind priors), it is probably less capable. But they’ll continue to convince everyone it’s better.

[BBQToadRibs2]

I live little south of Minot AFB in ND. I take mt daughter fishing Saturday mornings at a lake about 30 miles due west. Every Saturday a pair of B-52s fly over on their training run and they’re probably only at about 10-15,000 feet at that point. When those 16x Pratt & Whitney engines pass over you, you can still feel it in your chest.

[SuperLuminal]

"Until Biden cancels it."

Ditto...

Although once the his chicom masters get all the engineering documents, they may be flying it by 2022...

[pierrem15]

We have thousands of passenger jet aircraft sitting in the desert in AZ.

There can now be fitted with autonomous systems and cylinders full of cruise missiles or other ordnance. So how many of these could be converted for the same cost?

[Veggie Todd]

“Raider” conjures violent images. To not offend anyone, the name should be “Petunia” or “The Dove”.

[ducttape45]

Agreed!