The B-21 Raider is being sold as the future of American airpower, but its real meaning for U.S. strategy can be distilled into two words: “too late.” The aircraft is designed to make sure those words ...

A second B-21 Raider bomber has flown for the first time in California, the Air Force announced Thursday, a milestone officials say will accelerate testing of America’s first new long-range bomber in ...

The US Air Force's second B-21 Raider nuclear bomber has taken to the skies for the first time. The second of a planned fleet of 100, the sixth-gen aircraft took off from Northrop Grumman's Palmdale, ...

The mysterious, dark and secretive B-21 program inspires the imagination with a new realm of technological possibility, as it is widely anticipated to be the stealthiest platform the world has ever ...

The B-21 Raider is being framed as the centerpiece of a new kind of air war, one where a single stealth aircraft quietly ...

November 3, 2025: The new American heavy bomber, the B-21, is an 81-ton, twin-engine aircraft that can carry nine tons of bombs and missiles. It is 16 meters long with a 40-meter wingspan. B-21s will ...

On December 2, 2022, the U.S. Air Force officially unveiled its new bomber: the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider. Painted in bone white, built in a flying wing design, the B-21 was touted as the world's ...

The second B-21 conducted its maiden flight and will now join the first one, which has been flying since 2023 at Edwards Air Force Base. The second B-21 Raider stealth bomber has flown for the first ...

The first prototype B-21 Raider stealth bomber has been conducting flight tests at Edwards Air Force Base in California since November 2023, as manufacturer Northrop Grumman looks for ways to ramp up ...

Northrop Grumman Corp. has delivered a second B-21 stealth bomber for flight tests, according to the Air Force. Arrival of the new B-21 at Edwards Air Force Base will enhance the Air Force’s “capacity ...