USAF B-21 Raider unveiling (video link)

Cool.

Iron bird? Or they flying this thing?

Not sure. I'm fairly confident, however, I saw one leave Barksdale not that long ago.

Nope. It's a b-21

Another giant (and murderous) welfare program! Hooray

Looks familiar.

your granddaddy's b-52 is gonna outlive the last b-21

and i don't mean the program, i mean the actual aircraft

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Whats wrong with the B2?

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1. We only have 20 of them (thanks Congress)
2. They are only Very Low Observable and the B-21 will be Extremely Low Observable. Order of magnitude decrease in radar cross section.
3. All of the B-21's systems are made with an open architecture approach, so it will be able to be rapidly and cheaply (relatively) upgraded to keep pace with the adversary unlike the B-2 where every upgrade takes forever and is God awful expensive.
4. Different coatings and manufacturing processes will make it much easier to maintain in the field than the B-2.

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B-21 Raider unveiling

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Hate to break it to you but Darth finished a B-21 model a few weeks ago.

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FlyingTiger06

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What's the deal with the new engines for the 52? Delayed?