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The USAF is supposed to unveil it's new B-21 bomber today, although I'm not sure how much will actually be revealed. Per Northrop Grumman's CEO, the price, figuring in inflation, is now approaching $700 million per airplane.
And I'm sure we'll need the next ten years to work all the bugs out.
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It's not even scheduled to fly for the first time until "sometime in 2023."
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I wonder if they built in bunks, I know the B-2 crews used to set up cots and take turns sleeping, their missions were so long because they all started and ended in the US and it's not a fast plane.
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One of the early concepts for the B-21 (which should be "B-3") was that it be "optionally manned". Don't know if that the final cut or not.
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