Air Force releases new information on B-21 Raider that is coming to South Dakota base

Billings Gazette ^ | 7/8/2021 | Nathan Thompson Rapid City Journal

[Right Wing Vegan]

RAPID CITY, S.D. — The U.S. Air Force has released a new B-21 Raider artist rendering graphic and fact sheet on the stealth bomber, which will be stationed first at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City.

The rendering highlights the future stealth bomber with Edwards Air Force Base, California, as the backdrop. The Air Force said the 420th Flight Test Squadron based at Edwards AFB will plan, test, analyze and report on all flight and ground testing of the B-21 Raider before the bombers become active at Ellsworth.

The Air Force said a B-21 maintenance depot will also be established at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City.

According to a news release, the B-21 program in in the engineering and manufacturing development phase, focused on scaling infrastructure capacity for the manufacturing of the nuclear-capable aircraft.

[folkquest]

Sweet ride!

[castlebrew]

Photo-shopped graphic. Lighting on plane is different than the buildings.

[BenLurkin]

Need to build 100 of them.

[Paladin2]

Is it noisier than the B-1B on takeoff and landings?

[dinodino]

I guess you didn’t even bother to read the first line of the article, which stated that the image is a rendering.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The Air Force said a B-21 maintenance depot will also be established at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City.

Cool...lots of stoners maintaining our brand spanking new nuclear bomber fleet. [Oklahoma] Black market, other risks remain as legalized weed turns three. Head shops on every corner and block of OKC and you can get "medicinal" weed "prescribed" for every ailment under the sun.

[Texas Fossil]

Very Interesting.

I lived across OKC from Tinker AFB, for 7 years (1988-1995).

Knew people who worked there, ham friends.

I have also been to where they make the weapons they intend to be able to deliver. Not in OK.

We lived near WSMR in the 1970’s and mid 1980’s. Lots of my ham friends worked at the labs and military bases there; or at NMSU (physicists and engineers).

[knarf]

Artists rendering

GO HERE

[Hulka]

Hard to imagine that!

[laweeks]

CHINA AND RUSSIAN NOW NOW EXACTLY WHERE IT IS . . . NICE GOING

[Yo-Yo]

Cool...lots of stoners maintaining our brand spanking new nuclear bomber fleet.

Who do you think is maintaining the current nuclear bomber fleet?

Stoners worked the flightline back when I was in the AF in 1977.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Sure hope they don’t name it the Obomber.

[Reno89519]

Yes, that is more impressive. The other ‘artist’ needs to be re-educated on lighting. Bet the government paid him a bit too much for that lousy cut-and-paste.

[hadaclueonce]

China probably stole the plans and have two already

[White Lives Matter]

Is this one going to be an automated unmanned bomber or manned like the B2?

[lodi90]

Those maternity flight suits should come in handy on this bird.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Need to build 100 of them.

It'll cost so much that we'll get 12.

I don't pretend for a second to know much about military affairs, but common sense tells me that hundreds of cheap drones might be more than enough to counter the few of the incredibly expensive aircraft that the USAF in 2021 ever gets put into service.

[Midwesterner53]

Will the AF demand South Dakota first submit to CRT?

[Darteaus94025]

Hey...I needs my medicine...