According to the U.S. Air Force’s plan, the U.S. military will be equipped with only two types of bombers, the B-52 Stratospheric Air Bastion and the B-21 Raider, while the B-1B Gunfighter and B-2A Phantom will be replaced by the B-21 Raider because of operational cost savings. “The B-1B Gunfighter and B-2A Phantom will be replaced by the B-21 Raider due to operational cost savings, where the B-21 will be tasked with assault missions and will be able to enter those high-risk airspace with stealth advantages The B-52s will continue to play the role of cruise missile air launcher. Currently, almost all of the world’s bombers, with the exception of the B-2A, play this role, only when dealing with opponents who lack air defense capabilities, such as the Taliban and extremist forces, to bomb from the air.
The latest news from the Pentagon says the U.S. military’s next-generation B-21 Raider stealth bomber is expected to make its maiden flight by the end of this year, with the first two prototypes progressing relatively well, although the Epidemic has delayed their assembly, but this is not a technical difficulty, compared to the Russian Air Force’s Tu-160M “In contrast, the Russian Air Force’s Tu-160M Corsair strategic bomber has encountered serious technical and financial difficulties, the so-called Tu-160M now differs greatly from the initial planning, many advanced avionics and weapons, because it was not successfully developed on Time and could not be installed on the Tu-160M, in other words, the actual performance of the current Tu-160M is limited.
For the U.S. Air Force, the B-21 Raider is even more important than the F-35 stealth fighter. The B-21 represents the highest level of bomber in the world, and the U.S. Air Force believes that for the foreseeable future, continuous upgrades will continue to ensure that the B-21’s technical superiority will be sufficient to meet any future challenges that may arise. The B-21 Raider can use all of the ground attack weapons in the USAF’s arsenal, including the 13.6-ton GBU-57 mega-bomb, and in fact, the B-21’s bomb bay has been specially designed to carry the GBU-57.
In terms of combat power, the B-21 Raider is inferior to the B-2A in terms of range (the importance of range has declined as the U.S. military meets its actual needs through bases around the world and aerial refueling) and bomb load (the ability to carry the heaviest GBU-57 in the U.S. military’s arsenal is sufficient). “Phantom, but the B-21 costs less, and in addition to its estimated unit price of $600 million, its maintenance costs are also lower, compared to the B-2A, which, despite continuous improvements, has reduced its operating costs, but is still too expensive for the U.S. Air Force, which constantly emphasizes operating costs, not to mention maintenance complexity, like Like other emerging military aircraft, the B-21 was designed from the outset to emphasize its maintainability.
The B-21 Raider is expected to enter mass production soon after its maiden flight, and the B-21 Raider is generally a continuation of the B-2A Phantom design with the latest aviation technologies of recent years, especially the B-21 Raider. The B-21 will help the U.S. military continue to maintain its advantage in long-range bombing capability, sufficient to strike deep into the territory of potential strategic adversaries, while the U.S. and other countries continue to vigorously develop stealth fighters, is also a side effect of the current and foreseeable future, anti-stealth technology is not yet able to pose a substantial threat to these stealth fighters, more It is still better than nothing and psychological comfort.
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