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Meet the B-21
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a reply to: Zaphod58
Zaphod
Boeing will be asked to build their LRS-B in limited quanities and also the B-1R and may even get the whole LRSB contract afterall.
Everything else is old and failing apart.
The B-21 is a total let-down and im guessing congress will kill it. Nobody is going to want to fund B-2 revision 1.1, plain and simple. 550M a frame and its nothing new, literally.
Boeing knows they might actually get this contract when they send their lobbyists out in massive beast mode to say, LOOK LOOK, this is just a new B-2, LOOK what we got!!!
Northrup will never build this bomber. Mark my words, this is now dead and the photo is proof.
Zaphod
Boeing will be asked to build their LRS-B in limited quanities and also the B-1R and may even get the whole LRSB contract afterall.
Everything else is old and failing apart.
The B-21 is a total let-down and im guessing congress will kill it. Nobody is going to want to fund B-2 revision 1.1, plain and simple. 550M a frame and its nothing new, literally.
Boeing knows they might actually get this contract when they send their lobbyists out in massive beast mode to say, LOOK LOOK, this is just a new B-2, LOOK what we got!!!
Northrup will never build this bomber. Mark my words, this is now dead and the photo is proof.
a reply to: BigTrain
I'm almost willing to place a monetary bet on that one, BT.
Boeing is not going to build its LRS-B. They might get something else, but not that.
The Boner is never going to happen. Really.
I suspect there will be another large airframe contract coming up for Boeing, but it won't be anything like this.
I'm almost willing to place a monetary bet on that one, BT.
Boeing is not going to build its LRS-B. They might get something else, but not that.
The Boner is never going to happen. Really.
I suspect there will be another large airframe contract coming up for Boeing, but it won't be anything like this.
a reply to: BigTrain
Wow. Not a chance in hell. The B-21 will be built and will enter service. What you're so confident is going to happen has never happened yet. Boeing lost. Period. Their aircraft will not be built for this program, and probably not for any other either. No matter what you think about it, it wasn't a lot different from this one in the end.
Congress won't kill it, because unlike us, they already know what it's capable of. There's a better chance that the sixth generation fighter will be powered by fusion reactors and have antigravity than your prediction coming true. You have no clue about the technology on this aircraft.
Wow. Not a chance in hell. The B-21 will be built and will enter service. What you're so confident is going to happen has never happened yet. Boeing lost. Period. Their aircraft will not be built for this program, and probably not for any other either. No matter what you think about it, it wasn't a lot different from this one in the end.
Congress won't kill it, because unlike us, they already know what it's capable of. There's a better chance that the sixth generation fighter will be powered by fusion reactors and have antigravity than your prediction coming true. You have no clue about the technology on this aircraft.
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This is an interesting read concerning the bomber and other bits as well,
www.af.mil...
www.af.mil...
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Sammamishman because: (no reason given)
From what we've now seen, I can't imagine the Boeing/LockMart bomber would have looked very different
a reply to: Zaphod58
or like this?
forum.keypublishing.com...
either way, the northrop one looks like a b2 replacement. the Lockheed one looks, to me, more like a Bone replacement. I'd figure we'd need both. oh and a f-117/111 replacement. and some quick response tactical bombing if I were allowed to make the decisions.
[]edit on 26-2-2016 by BASSPLYR because: (no reason given)
or like this?
forum.keypublishing.com...
either way, the northrop one looks like a b2 replacement. the Lockheed one looks, to me, more like a Bone replacement. I'd figure we'd need both. oh and a f-117/111 replacement. and some quick response tactical bombing if I were allowed to make the decisions.
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a reply to: Zaphod58
Oh she is just gorgeous and it isn't even the real thing yet. I caught this on FA this morning heading out for work and figured it had to be posted by now. So the B-21 it is, maybe "the Bat"? Best part is it doesn't resemble any of the other mystery craft spotted in the last couple of years so there as still a few more to come.
I about as surprised as you are after reading the first couple of comments, we all knew she wouldn`t be the hypersonic terror everyone wanted to know exists. But a more capable, less expensive, easier to maintain B-2 type aircraft. Going to miss the Spirit when the time comes though and looks like the end is not to far off.
Oh she is just gorgeous and it isn't even the real thing yet. I caught this on FA this morning heading out for work and figured it had to be posted by now. So the B-21 it is, maybe "the Bat"? Best part is it doesn't resemble any of the other mystery craft spotted in the last couple of years so there as still a few more to come.
I about as surprised as you are after reading the first couple of comments, we all knew she wouldn`t be the hypersonic terror everyone wanted to know exists. But a more capable, less expensive, easier to maintain B-2 type aircraft. Going to miss the Spirit when the time comes though and looks like the end is not to far off.
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With China getting so cockey about "owning" the South China Sea, little Kim kicking up sand and Russia trying to start another Cold War, I would not
be surprised in the least to hear of more "demonstrations" like Kansas and Amarillo with some of the other goodies laying around Edwards and Groom.
The little drawing of the B-21 may be just the start.
a reply to: BASSPLYR
What other project has been discussed that is like a bomber but isnt, and is like a fighter but isnt? You know that role the F-15E sort of does but cannot completely due to lack of EW capabilities? To the best of my knowledge it wont be dumping fuel externally into the afterburners this time but will still do everything else WAY better.
But you told them who is cool though right...RIGHT!?
What other project has been discussed that is like a bomber but isnt, and is like a fighter but isnt? You know that role the F-15E sort of does but cannot completely due to lack of EW capabilities? To the best of my knowledge it wont be dumping fuel externally into the afterburners this time but will still do everything else WAY better.
originally posted by: Sammamishman
a reply to: anzha
...and for some time now.
But you told them who is cool though right...RIGHT!?
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a reply to: BlackDog10
That was the Next Generation Bomber. That was the Boeing/Lockheed concept. They went a different route. It wasn't supersonic though.
That was the Next Generation Bomber. That was the Boeing/Lockheed concept. They went a different route. It wasn't supersonic though.
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