Looks like our boys saw something cool out there

originally posted by: grey580
a reply to: hawkguy

lol. I think they were going to make an announcement. You beat them to it.



closest image i could find that was similar. looks like there's a bit more engine space from the cabin. And the engine looks like it's further back.





It's something very similar to a B-2 in looks isn't it.

That looks like what flew over me last year in South West England. It was silent.

a reply to: Slys13

No. We elected to do that on our own.

a reply to: SecretsoftheBlueApples

It very well could be! But I'm not convinced that it is a B-2 until someone in the know says so for sure. I'm not convinced.

a reply to: penroc3

To me it looks like the intakes are spaced wrong. That leads me to think that they could be false as a means of disguising it's shape from long range photographers.

a reply to: hawkguy

Looks like the B-2s baby brother.

originally posted by: hawkguy
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Nice pic guys. Definitely looks wrong for a B-2. I wonder what your personal opinions are on if it's an LRS-B or an RQ-180

China and the Ruskies will be happy you posted these pictures...

a reply to: hawkguy

i think that's just from the skewed perspective, the wings are huge for sure and seem to have a 'chink'.

a reply to: Iscool

Because they don't have any possible way of getting them without us posting them.

originally posted by: Iscool


China and the Ruskies will be happy you posted these pictures...

They probably already know more about the program than the US taxpayer ever will.

a reply to: mightmight

no doubt, im sure it is someones whole career to see these things and with way better intelligence and equipment it's not a stretch of the imagination.

look at the flyovers of the mystery triangles a few years ago, they weren't doing S turns for nothing, im sure they were doing so as to be imaged by satellites

a reply to: Iscool

China's already stolen the CAD drawings most likely and the Russians couldn't do much about it even if they had much better photos.

a reply to: penroc3

I don't know. The dude in the article seems to think they could be cranked, but I'm not quite sure.

I think the fact that it was moved back indoors before daylight tells the tale. I vote B-21. As for the "next morning" B-2 satellite pic, they could have easily pulled a B-2 out and parked it so the AF could say, "Nothing to see here, move along."

Keep in mind it has a 130 foot wingspan and stands only 12 feet high. Its much smaller than a B2.

a reply to: SonofaSkunk

again a known tatic the AF has used, in the same fly over of *not the B-21*.


its pretty obvious its something interesting, someone said the 180 but im going to bet $'s to doughnuts it's unmanned and this clearly has a cockpit.

a reply to: penroc3

That may be either an inlet (see the RQ-170 for a bump that kinda looks like a cockpit, but isn't) or a sat dish like on the Global Hawk.

So from what I've read about the B-21 is that it is smaller, more upgradable, slightly better priced version of the B-2.

Is there anything ground breaking new about it? I saw they could make it autonomous.

@anzha

That's a possibility. But with stealth developments I'd want to do away with a traditional windscreen and all that joining and RAM layering around the frame of the glass. I could easily see them doing a solid one piece skin that goes from nose right over the entire cockpit. The windscreen being underneath it and not traditional. I say that's a b21 in that photo and that its manned. After all it is supposed to be nuke capable. Would the air force really want a drone doing nuclear missions. Possible one could but would they really let that happen.

a reply to: pavil

Yes lots of ground breaking stuff under the hood.

a reply to: BASSPLYR

I don't see a wind screen in the photo. I just see a hump. And I've been zooming in as close as I can.