United States Air Force Launched a new “B-21 Raider” bomber after a long period of development. The price is about 700 million dollars per plane, or about 2.3 billion baht.
on December 3, 2022 BBCUS Air Force reveals new stealth bomber B-21 raider (B-21 Rider), or B-21 for short, is the latest generation of stealth bombers.United States Air ForceThe price of the aircraft is about 700 million dollars (about 23,800 million baht) after more than 30 years without a new bomber, while the B-21 bomber program is almost entirely classified.
New bomber launch ceremony Knight B-21 at the Northrop Grumman plant in Palmdale. California Friday, December 2, local time
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Proudly says the new B-21 bomber is a significant advance over bombers currently in the US Air Force fleet, the most complex to detect B-21 bomber.
“50 years of advances in stealth technology have gone into this aircraft,” says Lloyd Austin.
The first bombers are expected to be put into service with the US Air Force next year by 2023, with six aircraft currently under construction, according to the BBC report. It plans to order at least 100 B-21 stealth bombers to replace the B-1 and B-2 bombers.