Long-range bomber B-21 Raider for the United States Air Force let into the tube

The director of the US Air Force Operations Department, speaking at a special event at the Mitchell Space Research Institute, spoke about promoting the promising American long-range bomber B-21 program from Northrop Grumman. Recall that this company received the right to implement the project B-21 Raider. According to Randall Walden, director of operations for the United States Air Force, "the developer is approaching an important stage of critical design review."

The original long-range bomber design for the USAF was introduced in February 2016.

Randall Walden:

We continue to work not only on the test aircraft, but also prepare for the launch of mass production. I believe that at the moment it is possible to talk about the production of X-NUMX B-100 bombers. This is a critical need for the Air Force. We are focused on launching such production, but we will not be able to do this until we determine all the parameters of the aircraft.

According to Walden, at this stage the test fuselage of the future long-range bomber is being tested in a wind tunnel.

In the American media, it was suggested that the tests could be conducted at a special facility on the territory of Arnold airbase (Tennessee).

US official:

We are working to ensure that our drawings are embodied in a real prototype, in a real machine. And one of the main stages - testing the future of the B-21 in a wind tunnel.

Earlier it was reported that the first long-range bomber B-21 Raider will be able to take to the air in 2025 year. It was noted that the cost of each such aircraft will be 0,55 billion dollars. If we talk about a hundred planes, the financial resource of the program amounts to an astronomical sum of $ 55 billion. Initially, it was precisely because of the high cost of the project that the company working on the program implementation had certain difficulties, as the American media wrote.

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[cniza]

It was noted that the cost of each such aircraft will be $ 0,55 billion. If we talk about a hundred aircraft, the financial resource of the program is an astronomical amount of $ 55 billion. Initially, it was precisely because of the high cost of the project that the company working on the program had certain difficulties, as the American media wrote about.

For them it’s a penny, the whole world will be thrown off ...

[bouncyhunter]

Victor, hi!

Quote: cniza

For them it’s a penny, the whole world will be thrown off ...

But it will not be thrown off - they will print.

[MPN]

Hello Pasha! You know, it’s like a drum, it’ll just fly at them and not a hundred, and put a couple of regiments on the wing ... And we will repair Kuzyu for 100 years. and fold into our pockets .... forgive the "elites" ...

[Piramidon]

Quote: cniza

For them it’s a penny, the whole world will be thrown off ...

In fact, Russia will also take part in this. How much of our dough is stored there?

[1970mk]

Ours? do not make me laugh ... ours - mine or yours there is no dough)))))

[Piramidon]

Salvage is Russian, and I am a citizen of Russia. I do not mean the loot of the "Abramovich", but the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. My taxes came there too. And the Central Bank buys American papers on them.

[1970mk]

You, as a citizen of the Russian Federation, have little relationship with the Bubble of the Russian Federation))))

[Starover_Z]

the cost of each such aircraft will be $ 0,55 billion.

Let's hope that by that time we will have S-500 on duty who will see this device and their missiles will be much cheaper than this bomber!

[Maksus]

With their capabilities, it is realistically possible to create a new aircraft in seven years, from which it will not be required to be able to do as much as the F-35 should be able to. That is the whole problem. Well, at least such a thing will not allow to make a deck option ...

[silverwolf88]

Of course, the potential of the US industry is still high ... what they can create I don’t even argue ... One good thing ... it will be prohibitively expensive (and okay on their budget ... you look and tear up the navel once) ... with imperfections (the experience of their work on invisible planes 22 and 35) and in general the antidote to the bombers in Russia already exists ... then again it’s a weapon against “Africa”

[spirit]

Yes, everything is normal with them. it’s just going to be like with a B-2, only a larger series as the technologies have already been worked out. Instead of 100 pieces of 50, they stick and calm down)

[Altona]

On the monitor screen, what kind of apparatus with a “flapping” wing? This is about the photo for the article.

[san4es]

Quote: Altona

On the monitor screen, what kind of apparatus with a “flapping” wing? This is about the photo for the article.

The Air Force ultimately plans to purchase a fleet of 100 B-21s with a total price tag of $ 80 billion for aircraft and auxiliary equipment. Currently, little is known about the design of the new bomber, except that it will be equipped with the latest stealth technologies and will be optimized for penetrating deep into enemy territory unnoticed. The concept image of the raider, released in early 2016, shows a similar B-2 design, suggesting that the new bomber will be a modernized B-2 design that "allows the use of mature systems and existing technology," according to the BBC
It is also made using stealth technology, the aerodynamic design is a flying wing. The new car is likely to be powered by the Pratt & Whitney PW9000 engine, which is still being built on the basis of the F135 engine.

[voyaka uh]

He will not have any mechanical flaps, only gas-dynamic

[san4es]

Quote: voyaka uh

He will not have any mechanical flaps, only gas-dynamic

... The main thing is that there is no vertical take-off

[K-50]

the cost of each such aircraft, the B-21 Raider, will be $ 0,55 billion.

Well, I do not believe such statements. It is unlikely that the new incarnation will be cheaper than the old B-2, and the cost of 2 yards of "greenery".

[Andriy Πrivals]

the price of the aircraft depends on the number of pieces produced, the B-2 costs 2 yards, so they built only 20 pieces, and had to build 100.

[voyaka uh]

They hope to save on engines: use
finished from F-35, 4 pieces. The engine costs 11 million.
And the new bomber is smaller than the B-2 in size (and with less bomb load)

[Vadim851]

4 F-135 is quite powerful, by then a modernized version of this engine with a thrust of 10% more should appear. Strange enough it turns out that the aircraft will be subsonic with such engines, even without afterburner.
He has a total thrust of almost two times more and it is lighter significantly than the B-2

[voyaka uh]

I think they suggest cruising subsonic (transonic)
speed (these F-135 engines are very economical at that speed),
but the possibility of a serious supersonic jerk on the afterburner.
To escape from interceptors if stealth bombers detect.

[Vadim851]

As an option, in the summer means at the level of Lancer should be

[Andriy Πrivals]

100 pieces is a lot. So the Americans are confident in the ability of the aircraft to break through the air defense of opponents.
In 2010, Lockheed announced that a new CNT stealth coating was created in the F-35 project, which effectively absorbs all wavelengths and meters, including from any angle, making the aircraft almost "black body".
According to the commander of the US Air Force Mike Hostage: the F-35 is much more inconspicuous than the F-22, but the F-35 loses the F-22 in speed and altitude.
The F-35′s cross section is much smaller than the F-22′s. “The F-35 doesn't have the altitude, doesn't have the speed [of the F-22], but it can beat the F-22 in stealth.”
The problem of the B-2 is that it needs to constantly “tint”, but the new stealth technology that is used on the F-35 does not need this. So the B-21 will use the same technology.
The task of such bombers is to deliver the B-61-11 nuclear bomb, which burrows into the ground at 7 meters, makes a nuclear detonation to a depth of up to 300 meters, incapacitating bunkers and command posts

[Key 32]

Having compiled the article and comments, in general, this is how I see it: the MiG-31 link flies, the operator, lulled by the boring “nobody dumb” ancient, on the bast and hemp, PFAR radar, smokes in the window and then, bracing to bravely put the goby in the same window in the direction of the Atlantic, in order to demonstrate NATO the Russian pilot’s inflexibility, he suddenly notices flying over the oncoming B-21. Each proud, defiant inscription "Not painted" and "Now 10% more!". Well, in general, with all their looks they demonstrate extreme tolerance and democracy. Having kicked the commander’s boot (the contacts once again wiped the techies with a “thin layer” and therefore the internal communication did not turn on, and the mobile phone was again “offline”), the operator pointed out to him the outrageous things that were happening. He, in turn, launched two red rockets and gave three whistles in the direction of B-21, making it clear to the link that "something is there." The link completed the “all of a sudden” turnaround, according to the “who is where” scheme and were about to pile up “mattresses” with armor-piercing PM-s (the rockets at the offer to “pull” unanimously shook their homing heads and said “no one is mute”), like democratic Raiden performed a "supersonic breakthrough" and materialized already in the Pacific Ocean ..
Fuh .. tired

[prorab_ak]

Nenene ... continuation treba, it went so well ....

[Key 32]

Okay..
..materialized already in the Pacific Ocean .. at least that’s how Garmin’s high-tech GPS navigators determined the coordinates for which there weren’t any reasons to believe (what could be the reasons at a price equal to the whole-gold, collection Gelendvagen ??). However, having scanned the area with advanced AFAR radars and analyzing the data obtained on holographic full 150K screens, “the ocean, no intelligent life was found, the type of surface is wood” was displayed, which caused the bearers of democracy a burning desire to scratch the back of their head. However, this has not been taught since the time of Pearl Harbor, and computers were at the zeta testing stage and did not see any contradictions. The proud sons of the shining city of democracy on the hill did not know that it wasn’t customary for the vile barbarians to leave the house without putting a pair of Khibin in their belts .. Meanwhile, the Migov link, fearing a triple execution in front of the ranks, followed by early dismissal to the Gulag, after retiring smoking rights, they decided to refuel at the nearest Rosneft and catch up with the B-21, having cut it by country roads. But it turned out at Rosneft that Sechin again raised prices for the 92nd, and even more so for the 95th. Refueled by what an unfamiliar man offered, a gazy-looking - in appearance, smell and taste of diesel fuel, but the man assured that he was clean 100th, and he had the Lukoil franchise. Migi sneezed, but realized that there was nothing to do and still need to fly. After asking locals along the way (if they had not seen the stealth and where they flew), the link reached Makar a little beyond Khanty-Mansiysk, but a little to Yakutsk. There, in a single clearing two thousand kilometers around, B-21s were discovered, as it turned out vertical stealth take-off and the same landing, engaged in viewing Ali-express ads, general sponsor Northrop Grumman (under the terms of the advertising contract, advertising could only be missed after half an hour of viewing, with the obligatory transition to the advertiser's website) ...

[prorab_ak]

that it’s not customary for vile barbarians to leave home without putting a pair of “Khibin” in their belts

Most delivered
My friend, a little advice for the future .... on some particularly resonant topic (related to the firing of poor Syrians by the guys from the promised, for example), manage to write in the top ten a similar magnificent flight of fantasy, turn up this dense nest ... and all the success to you provided .... like the marshal's epaulettes

[2329 Carpenter]

Come on, come on! You do it!

[2329 Carpenter]

Quote: voyaka uh

I think they suggest cruising subsonic (transonic)
speed (these F-135 engines are very economical at that speed),
but the possibility of a serious supersonic jerk on the afterburner.
To escape from interceptors if stealth bombers detect.

I think he will not pull a supersonic jerk. Very flat exterior.

[2329 Carpenter]

Quote: prorab_ak

that it’s not customary for vile barbarians to leave home without putting a pair of “Khibin” in their belts

Most delivered
My friend, a little advice for the future .... on some particularly resonant topic (related to the firing of poor Syrians by the guys from the promised, for example), manage to write in the top ten a similar magnificent flight of fantasy, turn up this dense nest ... and all the success to you provided .... like the marshal's epaulettes

The Deep Nest +++++!
Well said!
So you need to turn it into what Marchenko does well.
No banter? Has already! And will be.

[Calabi Yau]

Quote: voyaka uh

I think they suggest cruising subsonic (transonic)
speed (these F-135 engines are very economical at that speed),
but the possibility of a serious supersonic jerk on the afterburner.
To escape from interceptors if stealth bombers detect.

Do you seriously believe that this bird can cross the sound barrier without falling into a dive?
On supersonic-engineered vehicles, when the aerodynamic focus is shifted during the transition, it is necessary to parry non-weak such moments for a dive. And here the flying wing scheme with rudimentary flight control planes is used. Supersound is not his element.