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The Air Force’s new nuclear stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider, has taken its first test flight
AP News ^ | BY TARA COPP Updated 10:29 AM CST, November 10, 2023

Posted on 11/10/2023 11:08:47 AM PST by Red Badger

Edited on 11/10/2023 11:43:05 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The B-21 Raider took its first test flight on Friday, moving the futuristic warplane closer to becoming the nation’s next nuclear weapons stealth bomber.

The Raider flew in Palmdale, California, where it has been under testing and development by Northrop Grumman.


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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Travel
KEYWORDS: palmdale
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1 posted on 11/10/2023 11:08:47 AM PST by Red Badger
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2 posted on 11/10/2023 11:09:31 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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A B-21 in its hangar at Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. U.S. AIR FORCE
3 posted on 11/10/2023 11:11:28 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: 04-Bravo; 1FASTGLOCK45; 1stFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; 2sheds; 60Gunner; 6AL-4V; A.A. Cunningham; ...

Aviation Ping!.....................


4 posted on 11/10/2023 11:12:25 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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VIDEO:

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


5 posted on 11/10/2023 11:13:12 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Clear rip-off of the Ho-229 design.


6 posted on 11/10/2023 11:18:31 AM PST by PAR35
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More details Unloading of the captured Horten Ho 229 V3 from a train by US military

7 posted on 11/10/2023 11:20:32 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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But can it stand up against a Hamass Paraglider?


8 posted on 11/10/2023 11:20:33 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Build Back Better' is a Bidenskyyyyyyism for 'we gotta get rid of all dem white peoples'.)
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The B-21 Raider

Name the first one for John Madden.

9 posted on 11/10/2023 11:21:13 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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Kinda looks like the B-2 Spirit.

Maybe they added some cup holders.

10 posted on 11/10/2023 11:21:28 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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Horten H.IX V1 before a test flight.

11 posted on 11/10/2023 11:23:26 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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China’s already got the blueprints.


12 posted on 11/10/2023 11:24:36 AM PST by Mustard (tt)
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Horton 229 in 2016 while the center section (left) was under restoration. Wings stored separately (right).

13 posted on 11/10/2023 11:25:41 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Can you imagine being in that cockpit in between those two primitive jet engines right beside you?..............


14 posted on 11/10/2023 11:26:56 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Its not a nuclear bomber. Its a bomber. It can carry nuclear bombs. But so can many other bombers. Nuclear bombs are not as large as they once were. And we would rather send nuclear weapons on missiles anyway. Less human error. And missiles are harder to shoot down.


15 posted on 11/10/2023 11:29:22 AM PST by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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Like a P-38 Lightning


16 posted on 11/10/2023 11:30:09 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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Can you imagine being in that cockpit in between those two primitive jet engines right beside you?..............

I imagine it would have been noisy.

If anything serious went wrong, you wouldn't even know it.

17 posted on 11/10/2023 11:32:40 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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And still I wonder.
Did much of our stealth plane technology design come from reverse engineered alien aircraft, recovered from crashes or shoot downs?


18 posted on 11/10/2023 11:32:57 AM PST by desertsolitaire (w)
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You’d be the FIRST to know!..............


19 posted on 11/10/2023 11:33:17 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Our fancy weapons will be useless because our gutless woke pussy military “leaders” will never have the will to use them.


20 posted on 11/10/2023 11:34:30 AM PST by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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