Northrop B-21 Raider

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The Raider Takes Shape

https://www.airforcemag.com/article/the-raider-takes-shape/

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Zvanican render

Citat:Overall shape is similar to the one of the B-2 but the B-21 is smaller in size
B-21 leading edge shows different design concept: in particular, the new aircraft does not appear to have the toothpick edge shape of its predecessor’s hence lacking also the peculiar B-2’s “hawk’s-beak” profile
The B-21 features different inlets config and blended conformal engine nacelles
The B-21 has a two-wheel MLG (Main Landing Gear)
The MLG and Nose Gear doors are different: in particular, the MLG doors are not trapezoidal but show serrated edges whereas the nosegear door is serrated and not attached to the gear leg but on the right side of the bay.

https://theaviationist.com/2020/01/31/lets-have-a-.....-released/

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Odlozen prvi let
US Air Force delays first B-21 flight
Citat:The US Air Force (USAF) is now expecting the first flight of its Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider long range strike bomber (LRSB) to take place no earlier than 2022, slightly later than the late 2021 timeframe the service previously expected.
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/us-.....-21-flight

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Pocelo sklapanje drugog

Citat:The Air Force predicted it could fly the secretive B-21 for the first time in December 2021. But in an exclusive interview with Air Force Magazine, Walden said that forecast was always a best-case scenario, and that first flight in mid-2022 is now a “good bet.”

The first Raider hasn’t yet reached final assembly, he said, but is “really starting to look like a bomber.” A second plane, now moving down the production line, will allow the Air Force to vet the airframe, Walden said.

“The second one is really more about structures, and the overall structural capability,” he explained. “We’ll go in and bend it, we’ll test it to its limits, make sure that the design and the manufacturing and the production line make sense.”

Lessons learned from producing the first airplane are being applied to the second, Walden said. That work is progressing “much faster” as workers figure out how to build the airplane in real life, rather than operating off of a blueprint’s assumptions. The team is creating more space for test aircraft as the two bombers come together, he added.

“It’s looking pretty good,” Walden said. “We’re very pleased with the … very high percentages of efficiency” in building the second aircraft, “as compared to No. 1.”


https://www.airforcemag.com/second-b-21-under-cons.....st-flight/

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Ajmo ko zna latinski

"HUC VENIT MALUM"

Citat:We have inquired about this Latin term with multiple people. A number of translations have come from it, but many of them pretty much say a similar thing in different ways. This mainly includes "here comes evil," but by most indications, including a Latin professor's, the motto is a reference to a quote from Shakespeare's Macbeth: "something wicked this way comes."



https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39066/b-21-r.....rean-motto

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Plan to buy 145 B-21 Raider bombers gets endorsement from Biden Air Force nominee
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40803/plan-t.....ce-nominee

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Ima smisla sa obzirom da zamenjuje i B-1B i B-2. Mozda i B-52 ode konacno u penziju, pa zameni i tu platformu. Nesto je mora zameniti po broju.
B-21 je i malo manji od B-2 ako se dobro secam opisa.

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Za 2022. trzeno 2.8 milijardi za B-21

Citat:On the bomber front, the Air Force is asking for $2.873 billion for continued work on the B-21 Raider stealth bomber, an increase of $30 million over its 2021 Fiscal Year request, which it says is "to prepare for initial production" of these aircraft.

The service's goal, at present, is to buy at least 145 Raiders in the coming years.

Milos1977 ::Mozda i B-52 ode konacno u penziju, pa zameni i tu platformu. Nesto je mora zameniti po broju.


Nikada oni nece otici u penziju, bar ne jos 30 godina...tek ce da dobiju nove motore...

Citat:The Air Force wants $716 million to support its B-52Hs, a significant increase compared to the $483 million it asked for in the 2021 Fiscal Year budget request, and it says this added funding will go toward efforts "to replace engines, upgrade radar & communication systems."

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40836/here-a.....t-proposal

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Air Force Corrects Top Official's Statement On B-21 Bomber Progress
Citat:The first two examples of the advanced stealth bomber design are set to undergo ground testing before their planned first flight next year.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41007/the-fi.....or-testing

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Odabrali i prvu bazu za B-21
Ellsworth selected as first base for B-21 Raider
https://www.scramble.nl/military-news/ellsworth-se.....-21-raider