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200 New B-21 Raider Bombers Could All Fail Thanks to a 1957 Tanker the U.S. Air Force Is Still Using
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200 New B-21 Raider Bombers Could All Fail Thanks to a 1957 Tanker the U.S. Air Force Is Still Using
B-21 Raider: America’s Most Advanced Bomber Has a 1950s Achilles’ Heel: Look at the photograph the Air Force dropped this week. Not at the B-21. At the other plane. A KC-135 Stratotanker hangs in the frame, boom extended, feeding fuel into the most capable strike aircraft the United States has ever built. That tanker entered service in 1957. Eisenhower was president. The Soviets had just put Sputnik in orbit. The aircraft keeping America’s sixth…
Northrop Grumman demonstrated the aerial refueling capability of the B-21 Raider stealth strategic bomber during tests conducted with a KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft, Defense Express reported.
The sail rises, image by image. The new shots of bomber B-21 Raider in the middle of the air supply exercise are not mere photos, but a window open to the best kept technological secrets of American military aeronautics.
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