LRS-B... The B-21
Secret assembly plant begins to start up
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This worried me a little.............
"More than a thousand new employees are working for the time being in rows of temporary trailers, a dozen tan-colored tents and a vast assembly hangar at the desert site near the edge of urban Los Angeles Count"
Tents???? How very 1905...............
"More than a thousand new employees are working for the time being in rows of temporary trailers, a dozen tan-colored tents and a vast assembly hangar at the desert site near the edge of urban Los Angeles Count"
Tents???? How very 1905...............
A Top Secret factory...
...on a regional airport.......
...on a regional airport.......
Well this “regional airport” at Palmdale has seen some of the most cutting edge and secret programs come out: B-2, F-117, several technology demonstrators, the major drone programs, and was long associated with the A-12, SR-71 and U-2 (assembled elsewhere). So the site may be fairly well known, but what goes on behind the walls can indeed be very cutting edge and secret. Remember how surprised folks were when the stealth shapes saw the light of day. Plant 42 is perhaps the greatest example of hiding in plain sight.
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Coming to Edwards soon
Just got back from (laughingly) Vegas for Heli Expo 2018 including a nice desert drive to Rachel
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Anyhow came across this story below where the B-21 maybe heading to Edwards soon for official testing.
B-21 Raider Officially Heading To Edwards Air Force Base For Testing - The Drive
cheers
.Anyhow came across this story below where the B-21 maybe heading to Edwards soon for official testing.
B-21 Raider Officially Heading To Edwards Air Force Base For Testing - The Drive
cheers
Just got back from (laughingly) Vegas for Heli Expo 2018 including a nice desert drive to Rachel.
Anyhow came across this story below where the B-21 maybe heading to Edwards soon for official testing.
B-21 Raider Officially Heading To Edwards Air Force Base For Testing - The Drive
cheers
.Anyhow came across this story below where the B-21 maybe heading to Edwards soon for official testing.
B-21 Raider Officially Heading To Edwards Air Force Base For Testing - The Drive
cheers
Seems to confirm that the program has been going on for some time quietly, even before the official award (maybe with demonstrators even flying). Going with son-of-B2 was likely smart than the clean sheet Boeing design.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
is supposed to be based on. They haven’t even got to the “iron bird” hangar integration model yet.
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2018...-wittman-says/
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2018...-wittman-says/
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
B-21 bomber finishes preliminary design review, and Air Force official is 'comfortable' with progress
A U.S. Air Force official told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday that the new B-21 bomber has completed its preliminary design review and that he was "comfortable" with the progress made by builder Northrop Grumman Corp.
The bomber is now on its way to critical design review, said Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch Jr., the military deputy of the office of the assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition. Citing the "nature of the work,"
Bunch declined to go into further detail about how the Air Force planned to spend the $2.3 billion it requested for the bomber program for fiscal year 2019 when asked by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). However, he said the program was "continuing engineering manufacturing development" and "some of those risk reduction areas."
The first set of software for the platform has been delivered, and the program is getting "set up" for the next set of software to come in, Bunch told the Senate Armed Forces Subcommittee on Airland during a hearing about Air Force modernization efforts.
"We're making everything ready to begin our test program in the future," he said. "We're making good progress. I'm comfortable today with where we're at, and the progress that Northrop Grumman is making on the program."....
A U.S. Air Force official told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday that the new B-21 bomber has completed its preliminary design review and that he was "comfortable" with the progress made by builder Northrop Grumman Corp.
The bomber is now on its way to critical design review, said Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch Jr., the military deputy of the office of the assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition. Citing the "nature of the work,"
Bunch declined to go into further detail about how the Air Force planned to spend the $2.3 billion it requested for the bomber program for fiscal year 2019 when asked by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). However, he said the program was "continuing engineering manufacturing development" and "some of those risk reduction areas."
The first set of software for the platform has been delivered, and the program is getting "set up" for the next set of software to come in, Bunch told the Senate Armed Forces Subcommittee on Airland during a hearing about Air Force modernization efforts.
"We're making everything ready to begin our test program in the future," he said. "We're making good progress. I'm comfortable today with where we're at, and the progress that Northrop Grumman is making on the program."....
AF releases possible B-21 basing
B-21 bomber finishes preliminary design review, and Air Force official is 'comfortable' with progress
A U.S. Air Force official told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday that the new B-21 bomber has completed its preliminary design review and that he was "comfortable" with the progress made by builder Northrop Grumman Corp.
The bomber is now on its way to critical design review, said Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch Jr., the military deputy of the office of the assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition. Citing the "nature of the work,"
Bunch declined to go into further detail about how the Air Force planned to spend the $2.3 billion it requested for the bomber program for fiscal year 2019 when asked by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). However, he said the program was "continuing engineering manufacturing development" and "some of those risk reduction areas."
The first set of software for the platform has been delivered, and the program is getting "set up" for the next set of software to come in, Bunch told the Senate Armed Forces Subcommittee on Airland during a hearing about Air Force modernization efforts.
"We're making everything ready to begin our test program in the future," he said. "We're making good progress. I'm comfortable today with where we're at, and the progress that Northrop Grumman is making on the program."....
A U.S. Air Force official told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday that the new B-21 bomber has completed its preliminary design review and that he was "comfortable" with the progress made by builder Northrop Grumman Corp.
The bomber is now on its way to critical design review, said Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch Jr., the military deputy of the office of the assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition. Citing the "nature of the work,"
Bunch declined to go into further detail about how the Air Force planned to spend the $2.3 billion it requested for the bomber program for fiscal year 2019 when asked by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). However, he said the program was "continuing engineering manufacturing development" and "some of those risk reduction areas."
The first set of software for the platform has been delivered, and the program is getting "set up" for the next set of software to come in, Bunch told the Senate Armed Forces Subcommittee on Airland during a hearing about Air Force modernization efforts.
"We're making everything ready to begin our test program in the future," he said. "We're making good progress. I'm comfortable today with where we're at, and the progress that Northrop Grumman is making on the program."....
When they closed the west coast BUFF bases at end of Cold War / desert Storm...the likes of Castle AFB, kept Mather and March but took out the BUFFs etc ...one would have thought with tensions in Far East (yes I know Andersen etc are good FOBs) that somewhere ACC now GSC would consider a return to bomber dets say at Fairchild or Edwards or even March?
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Is this another B-2 or is it not
is supposed to be based on. They haven’t even got to the “iron bird” hangar integration model yet.
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2018...-wittman-says/
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2018...-wittman-says/
https://theaviationist.com/2018/08/2...or-just-a-b-2/
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-RP
Then again, Brigadier General Schaefer ( in charge of 412th Test Wing) did hint in a speech that the B-21 maybe heading to Edwards sooner than
[quote author=flateric link=topic=25915.msg335082#msg335082 date=1535162581]
How to write several pages of sighting a plane that even not passed CDR...
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Then again, recently BG Schaefer ( CO of 412th TEst Wing) hints that the Raider be officially coming to Edwards for T&E....
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B-21 Raider Officially Heading To Edwards Air Force Base For Testing - The Drive
[quote author=flateric link=topic=25915.msg335082#msg335082 date=1535162581]
How to write several pages of sighting a plane that even not passed CDR...
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Then again, recently BG Schaefer ( CO of 412th TEst Wing) hints that the Raider be officially coming to Edwards for T&E....
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B-21 Raider Officially Heading To Edwards Air Force Base For Testing - The Drive
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I was referring more to mathematical equations used and the apparent suggestion of the dimensions indicating it can't be a B-2, all taken from a pi$$ poor, out of focus, low-res, grainy photo taken at night in poor lighting!
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So, around seven and a half years after my being sneered at on this forum for doubting the existence of the "Stealth Black Hawk" regarding the Bin Laden operation,there is now another fable growing (which may or may not be true)
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