The B-21 Raider is being sold as the future of American airpower, but its real meaning for U.S. strategy can be distilled into two words: “too late.” The aircraft is designed to make sure those words ...

Key Points and Summary - A 100-aircraft B-21 Raider fleet is a dangerous minimum. Recent B-1B “boneyard” revivals highlight how thin America’s bomber force has become amid aging airframes and rising ...

The US Air Force's second B-21 Raider nuclear bomber has taken to the skies for the first time. The second of a planned fleet of 100, the sixth-gen aircraft took off from Northrop Grumman's Palmdale, ...

The development and production of the U.S. Air Force's latest bomber — the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider — recently ramped up with the delivery of a second test plane to Edwards Air Force Base in ...

Even a handful of B-21s, paired with “loyal wingman” drones and equipped with long-range weapons, are enough to seriously complicate China’s plans for its part of the world. A second B-21 Raider ...

On December 2, 2022, the U.S. Air Force officially unveiled its new bomber: the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider. Painted in bone white, built in a flying wing design, the B-21 was touted as the world's ...

Northrop Grumman is contracted to produce at least 100 of the long-range strike aircraft, which will carry conventional and nuclear weapons. The new bombers will replace the aging B-1B Lancer and B-2 ...

The federal shutdown has halted discussions about accelerating the B-21 bomber program, Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden said Tuesday, six months after the company sank hundreds of millions of ...

This story has been updated to include a statement from the Air Force. As lawmakers negotiated an end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, they added hundreds of millions of dollars for ...

Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota, the future home of the B-21 nuclear-capable bomber, has upgraded its runway as part of preparations for the stealth aircraft's arrival. The base, originally ...