First Two B-21 Raider Stealth Bombers Are Complete And Ready For Testing

Northrop Grumman  

Warzone/The Drive: The First Two B-21 Stealth Bombers Are Now Ready For Testing 

The first two examples of the advanced stealth bombers will now undergo ground testing before their planned first flight next year. 

 The modernization of the U.S. Air Force’s bomber branch is gathering pace, with the news that the first two examples of the so-far highly secretive Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider stealth bomber have been completed. 

As the service prepares to start testing the two new flying-wing bombers, it has also confirmed that it has no plans to retire additional examples of its aging B-1Bs until deliveries of the Raider begin, scheduled for some time in the mid-2020s, at the earliest. 

That reflects wider concerns in the service about whether it actually has enough bombers in its current fleet to deal with the kinds of high-end threats that it could face today.  

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Update #1: First two B-21 Raider stealth bombers are complete and ready for testing (Aerospace Manufacturing)  

Update #2: Construction of First Two B-21 Raider Stealth Bombers Is Complete, US Air Force Says (Sputnik)  

WNU Editor: This is where the first B-21s wi2ll be based .... South Dakota’s Ellsworth Air Force Base will be home to B-21 bomber (Air force times).