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US Air Force Reveals Their B-21 Raider to Compete With China
US Air Force Reveals Their B-21 Raider to Compete With China
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The B-21 Raider is a long-range, stealth bomber which the Pentagon intends on using to replace their B-1 and B-2 bombers. It is the first new American bomber... 03.12.2022, Sputnik International
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On Friday, the Pentagon unveiled its new stealth bomber, the B-21 raider, at an Air Force facility in Palmdale, California. The aircraft is just one of three other sectors the Pentagon is working to modernize to match China's growing military efforts. The US military is also reportedly developing silo-launched nuclear ballistic missiles and submarine-launched warheads. China's development of nuclear weapons, hypersonics, cyber warfare, and advanced projects in space have created "the most consequential and systemic challenge to US national security and the free and open international system," the Pentagon said this week. The B-21 is a classified project, but Warden explained that the way it operates internally is "extremely advanced compared to the B-2, because the technology has evolved so much in terms of computing capability", externally, the B-21 is harder to detect by adversaries because of the materials used in its coating. Six B-21 Raiders are currently in production and the Air Force plans to build 100 that can deploy either nuclear weapons or conventional bombs which can be operated manually or from afar. Other capabilities remain unknown about the bomber, and will most likely remain classified for some time. Its price has also not been revealed to the public, whose taxes helped pay for the project, but an estimate conducted by the Air Force assumes that each nuclear-capable B-21 Raider will cost $692 million to manufacture.
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US Air Force Reveals Their B-21 Raider to Compete With China
01:03 GMT 03.12.2022 (Updated: 02:09 GMT 03.12.2022) The B-21 Raider is a long-range, stealth bomber which the Pentagon intends on using to replace their B-1 and B-2 bombers. It is the first new American bomber aircraft in more than three decades, and is seen as the United States' answer to China's rapidly growing military, which is on track to have 1,500 nuclear weapons by 2035.
On Friday, the Pentagon unveiled its new stealth bomber, the B-21 raider, at an Air Force facility in Palmdale, California. The aircraft is just one of three other sectors the Pentagon is working to modernize to match China's growing military efforts. The US military is also reportedly developing silo-launched nuclear ballistic missiles and submarine-launched warheads.
China's development of nuclear weapons, hypersonics, cyber warfare, and advanced projects in space have created "the most consequential and systemic challenge to US national security and the free and open international system," the Pentagon said this week.
"With the B-21 the United States Air Force will deter and defeat threats anywhere in the world," said Kathy Warden, the Chair, CEO and President of the aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman. "The B-21 raider changes everything: reaffirming peace through deterrence, advancing technology, and ushering in a new paradigm in aircraft design, development, and manufacturing."
The B-21 is a classified project, but Warden explained that the way it operates internally is "extremely advanced compared to the B-2, because the technology has evolved so much in terms of computing capability", externally, the B-21 is harder to detect by adversaries because of the materials used in its coating.
Six B-21 Raiders are currently in production and the Air Force plans to build 100 that can deploy either nuclear weapons or conventional bombs which can be operated manually or from afar. Other capabilities remain unknown about the bomber, and will most likely remain classified for some time. Its price has also not been revealed to the public, whose taxes helped pay for the project, but an estimate conducted by the Air Force assumes that each nuclear-capable B-21 Raider will cost $692 million to manufacture. 
