{"id":1652459,"date":"2022-09-22T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T10:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1652459"},"modified":"2022-09-22T06:38:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T10:38:18","slug":"first-rollout-of-b-21-planned-for-early-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-rollout-of-b-21-planned-for-early-december\/","title":{"rendered":"First \u201cRollout\u201d of B-21 Planned for Early December"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffirst-rollout-of-b-21-planned-for-early-december%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1652459&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div class=\"share-buttons for-small\">\n<p>          <span class=\"share-label\">Share Article<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airandspaceforces.com\/weapons-platforms\/b-21\/\" title=\"Learn more about the B-21 Raider\" class=\"inline-wp-link\">B-21 Raider<\/a> will roll out of Northrop Grumman\u2019s Palmdale, Calif., plant in early December, Air Force acquisition executive Andrew Hunter said Sept. 20, but how much of the airplane will be visible remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference at AFA\u2019s Air, Space and Cyber event in National Harbor, Md., Hunter said the new bomber will emerge from the factory \u201cthe first week of December,\u201d meeting USAF\u2019s forecast to roll it out this year. Sources have said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airandspaceforces.com\/b-21-raider-first-flight-now-postponed-to-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">labor and supply chain issues<\/a> have held up many programs.  <\/p>\n<p>When asked if the entire aircraft will be revealed at the rollout, Maj. Gen. Jason R. Armagost, Global Strike Command\u2019s director of strategic plans, programs and requirements, told Air &#038; Space Forces Magazine, \u201cprobably not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou probably won\u2019t see it from all aspects,\u201d he said. The Air Force doesn\u2019t want China and other potential adversaries any more information about the aircraft than is necessary. He declined to say whether features of the airplane will be concealed with tarps, or whether the aircraft will only be visible through a hangar door. A Northrop Grumman spokesperson said \u201cit will not be a limited reveal,\u201d but as with the B-2, photographs will be restricted from some angles.<\/p>\n<p>As to when first flight is expected, neither Hunter nor Armagost would specify, saying flight testing will be event-driven. <\/p>\n<p>When the B-2 bomber rolled out in 1988, attendees were oriented such that they did not have a view of the rear deck of the aircraft, which featured an innovative new exhaust system to mask the jet\u2019s infrared signature. However, journalists flew a small airplane over the plant and photographed it from above, making the concealment moot. The features were further exposed when taxi tests began.<\/p>\n<p>Former Rapid Capabilities Office director and B-21 program executive officer Randall Walden, now an adviser to Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Logistics William LaPlante, has previously said a number of outside-the-factory activities for the first B-21 aircraft, such as engine run-ups and taxi tests, will swiftly be follow the rollout.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the new bomber a \u201csixth-generation aircraft,\u201d Northrop Grumman said in a press release that the roll-out will be an invitation-only event. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorthrop Grumman is proud of our partnership with the U.S. Air Force as we deliver the B-21 Raider, a sixth-generation aircraft optimized for operations in highly contested environments,\u201d said Tom Jones, corporate vice president and president for Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Young, sector vice president and general manager at Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems, added: \u201cThe B-21 is the most advanced military aircraft ever built and is a product of pioneering innovation and technological excellence.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The first B-21 is considered \u201cproduction representative\u201d\u2014not a prototype. It will be very similar to the operational bomber, Armagost said.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa A. Johnson, now directing the RCO, said the B-21\u2019s open-architecture design will allow it to be modified and reconfigured as the threat changes.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the Air Force has advanced its thinking on how many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northropgrumman.com\/what-we-do\/air\/b-21-raider\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">B-21s<\/a> will be built, Armagost reiterated the service\u2019s usual comment that it plans to build \u201cat least 100.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>As for a final figure, he said, \u201cFortunately, we don\u2019t have to decide that now.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The first B-2 Spirit bomber was delivered to its operating base of Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., Dec. 17, 1993, the 90th anniversary of the Wright Brothers\u2019 first flight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share Article The B-21 Raider will roll out of Northrop Grumman\u2019s Palmdale, Calif., plant in early December, Air Force acquisition executive Andrew Hunter said Sept. 20, but how<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1652461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1652461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}