Tuesday, November 21, 2017

The U.S. Air Force's Next Fleet Of Bombers Will Be Invisible To Radar

(Northrop Grumman)

Newsweek: The U.S. Military Is Building a Fleet of Star Trek-Inspired 'Shadow' Bombers Invisible to Radar

The Pentagon is developing a new fleet of shadow bombers that possibly disappear on radar like those featured in Star Trek movies.

The unit of B-21 stealth bombers, a futuristic combat aircraft, are being created at a secret desert plant in Palmdale, California, after the company Northrop Grumman won the contract for their development two years ago, The Times reported.

The U.S. military has sanctioned the development of around 100 of the bat-like bombers for as much as $80 billion. The precise amount remains top secret.

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Update: The US military is working on an 'invisibility cloak' for its latest stealth bomber (BT).

WNU Editor: The Pentagon's Inspector General is praising this program .... Pentagon's Inspector General Praises Secret $97 Billion Bomber (Bloomberg). More here .... $80 billion bomber gets early praise from Pentagon's inspector general (The Hill).

Hat tip to Fred for the above link.

6 comments:

Bob Huntley said...

Will they be invisible to space vision?

Anonymous said...

Expect China to announce similar design very soon. Coincidentally same design, of course. I would never tell 1.4bn people to fing stop stealing our stuff while working with north Korea against us. Never. The Chinese are our dear dear friends. Right, wnu? You believe that :))

Just a carpenter. said...

Stealing?? Lol.. If you think these designs aren't being sold, your to trusting..

Anonymous said...

You realise that if a service member of a US design team or one working for a company like lockheed Martin were to "sell" a top secret design to China and China were to "buy" both parties are engaging in ip theft, and espionage. You do know that, right, Mr smartypants? ;)

Anonymous said...

Invisible until the next change in technology

Jay Farquharson said...

http://mobile.nytimes.com/1998/10/19/us/technology-trade-special-report-chinese-said-reap-gains-us-export-policy-shift.html

https://www.google.ca/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/israel-accused-of-selling-us-secrets-to-china-1510406.html%3famp