Air Force Finally Releases New Images of Stealthy B-21 Future Bomber

[tn1911]

https://www.military.com/daily-news/...re-bomber.html

New photorealistic renderings of the B-21 Long Range Strike Bomber have officially landed.

The Air Force together with the bomber's manufacturer, Northrop Grumman, published three new concepts of the next-generation bomber, showing the stealth aircraft in various hangars at bomber bases across the U.S.

[flenna]

Pretty cool. I guess all that alien technology we got at Area 51 is getting put to good use.

[Slater]

Since industry can't even seem to get a non-stealthy, 1980's airframe-based aerial tanker right (the KC-46), this new B-21 has the potential to be a real dumpster fire. And if the USAF was following the numbering sequence this should be the B-3.

[mack7.62]

That looks a lot like a B-2 to me is it just a bigger version or something?

[tn1911]

That looks a lot like a B-2 to me is it just a bigger version or something?

Actually it’ll be slightly smaller, much more streamlined and orders of magnitude stealthily’er (yeah it’s not a word...)

[hotrodder636]

Is it going to be piloted or unmanned? Didn’t see anything referencing either direction. Like said above, odd that they didn’t follow the numbering and make is a B-3.

[Slater]

The rumor is "optionally manned".

[jpmuscle]

Is it going to be piloted or unmanned? Didn’t see anything referencing either direction. Like said above, odd that they didn’t follow the numbering and make is a B-3.

Maybe the rest of the sequential iterations never got declassified.


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[mack7.62]

I wonder if it will have a bunk and crapper built in.

[tn1911]

Is it going to be piloted or unmanned? Didn’t see anything referencing either direction. Like said above, odd that they didn’t follow the numbering and make is a B-3.

Manned and unmanned capabilities.

I'm assuming these two missions will be conducted by two vastly different airframes. The unmanned variants will have the ability to carry more due to the lack of systems, control, interface, environmental etc...