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Early December Northrop Grumman along with the U.S. Air Force, had lifted the veil from the B-21 Raider stealth bomber.
The aircraft shown referred to as T1 or aircraft number 001, is currently undergoing ground testing and is set to make its first flight sometime in 2023. There are 5 other B-21s known to be in various stages of production.
This was the first public look at any aspect of what has been a secret aircraft.
Northrop Grumman called it the “world’s first sixth-generation aircraft,” which means it’s a lot more technologically advanced than the military jets in service today.
Importantly, Royal Australian Air Force Chief, Air Marshal Robert Chipman, attended the unveiling ceremony at Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale facility with his British counterpart and described the event as “an awesome display of US innovation and industrial power”.
Recently, Marcus Hellyer and Andrew Nicholls, experts on cost and capabilities in defense acquisitions, wrote through the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), a premier Australian think tank, that the country must examine the B-21 bomber as a long-range strike option and have made specific remarks about its capabilities.
In this video, Defense Updates analyzes why Australian experts think that a single B-21 Raider is equivalent to at least 6 F-35s?
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The S400 is a pos lol
Air inlet is thin just like rusiya checkmate_soon those inlet will be enlarged_
At 4:04, the video states that the cost of 12 Raiders would be $25 to $28 billion; but the cost of a single B-21 is $695 million… the math doesn't work. $695 million x 12 = $8.34 billion.
Australia is still a barren land in regard to own military developments. It seems that the Australian government is seeing itself as an administrator of tourism or education of foreigners, but does not make up their mind about an industrial complex for self defence. They rather like to educate Chinese students and take their money, as to look forward into any geostrategic developments. Almost like the USA, which is still educating the Chinese elite in their universities. So all they can do for now is to buy US technology, and remaining completely unprepared against the Chinese adversary, overtaking in about everything of the economy, properties, companies, housing facilities, trade companies in Australia. Have the Australian nation is owned by Chinese clans and investors meanwhile.
Australia definitely need the B21 with the threat from the communists in China putting a naval/military base in the Solomon Islands.
I hope we DON'T export the B-21 to any other nation. The B-2 and F-22 are even more incredible since we are the only ones who have them.
In order to do real test, send them over Serbia who back in the 90s managed to hit and even down our "invisible" stealth bombers… search for missing "Spirit of Missouri" downed by the Serbs and crash landed in the fields several miles inside neighboring Croatia, BUT NEVER REPORTED.
Stealth doesn't make a plane invisible to radar just difficult to lock on to as stealth is tuned to stop high energy (short wavelength radar) return not broad spectrum, this isn't invisible, no stealth plane ever has been invisible. Even the SR-71 or F-117 were both not invisible with the later requiring a jammer plane to be operated effectively long before stealth detection had improved to where it is today
This is irrelevant. China already has a 7th Gen B-22 launched from their Moon, which they've owned for the last 2000 years.
New F111 for Australia ?
Seriously we don't need these bombers we need long range missiles.
B21 can carry 30 tons not 10
The inflection in this guys voice is hilarious.
Australia would be better off with block 4 F-35 re-engined with AETP
Still have to say the us will not let the b21 out of us control like the f22. The us might crew them with aussie and gb plots
You say that a squadron of twelve B-21s would cost $500 million per year to sustain, but not what the sustainment cost for F-35s. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that a single F-35A would cost $7.8 million per year to sustain. So if 72 F-35As the 12 B-21s would be replacing would cost $561.6 million per year to sustain, meaning the B-21 squadron would save around $60 million per year, not counting the fact that you'd need a lot few pilots. You can bet Northrop Grumman will be referring to this comparison in their marketing, and Lockheed will try to downplay it.
Australia is not getting B-21's
The Australian needs long-range missiles that can reach China. And then they need many stealth bombers that can also reach China. The missiles should preferably be hypersonic and long-range. And then they must have a good antiair air protection. Then they have to have tankers for their attack planes, which have to be stealth. That is the minimum. Then they must have artillery, tanks and missiles, etc. to defend the country with. They should acquire submarines with nuclear missiles, and many other attack boats. 😀 ( It's just a thought )
I wonder if the US will allow exports of B-21 to allies like Australia or the UK!
Gonna cost you 6 Billion for 12 B21 raiders tho.. worth the price however. Alternative to the submarine problem