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B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber

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The Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider is an American strategic bomber under development for the United States Air Force (USAF) by Northrop Grumman. As part of the Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) program, it is to be an advanced, very long-range, large, heavy-payload stealth intercontinental strategic bomber for the USAF, able to deliver conventional and thermonuclear weapons.

Six B-21 are being manufactured as of February 2022. The first B-21 was moved to a calibration facility in March 2022.

Northrop said in May the first B-21 finished its first of a series of ground tests at Plant 42. That phase included loads calibration tests, meant to verify the bomber’s structural integrity by subjecting it to stress, among other tests.

The following phases of the B-21 ground tests were to involve powering up the bomber and testing its subsystems, and applying coatings and paint, Northrop said in its May statement.

The B-21 Raider will incrementally replace the B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit to perform both conventional and nuclear missions alongside the  Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. As the Air Force transitions to a two-bomber fleet, the strategy to bed down the new B-21 bomber has been to minimize operational impacts, maximize reuse of existing facilities and reduce overhead as much as possible.

Unveiling Dec. 2, 2022, Air Force acquisition chief Andrew Hunter said Tuesday.

 

Hunter, during a roundtable with reporters at the Air Force Association’s Air Space Cyber conference, revealed the B-21 rollout will take place sometime during the first week of December. Other details of the roll-out are still being finalized, he said.

It will be the first time the Air Force has unveiled a new bomber since the B-2 Spirit November 1988 debut at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The B-2 first flight took place in July 1989.

The new, Northrop Grumman-made bomber has so far only been glimpsed in concept art. Its first flight is expected to come sometime in 2023, a few months after the rollout. Northrop said in a release after Hunter announcement that the date of the first flight will be set based on the results of ground tests.

Before the B-21 first flight from Plant 42 to Edwards Air Force Base in California, Northrop Grumman will carry out engine runs and low- and high-speed taxi tests. Formal flight tests for the bomber will take place at Edwards.

In September 2022, the USAF announced that the B-21 is to be unveiled in early December 2022 in Palmdale, California. The unveiling ceremony for B-21 is to be held at Northrop Grumman production facilities in Palmdale, California on 2 December 2022.

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