The U.S. Air Force long has kept the same three bombers in rotation, but that will soon change. The United States has the most robust fleet of strategic bombers on Earth. For a generation, the U.S.

Delays continue to plague the development of the Stratofortress' successor, but once it does enter service, the Boeing B-52J has a lot of potential.

The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is without a doubt the pinnacle of airpower. Designed to penetrate enemy defenses undetected, ...

China's hypersonic air-to-air missiles, designed specifically to shoot down US stealth bombers, signal a potential seismic ...

Northrop Grumman said on Thursday that it received, as expected, a U.S. Air Force contract in the fourth quarter last year ...

Details about the new B-21 Low-Rate Initial Production contract have not been released, however Northrop Grumman said it had preliminary talks with the ...

Here are the three U.S. and three foreign bombers that are still in service today, though it won't be long before they're replaced by more advanced, sixth-generation aircraft like the B-21 Raider ...

The military placed an initial order of 100 aircraft, with experts expecting more B-21 Raiders to be commissioned soon afterwards. America unveiled the new bomber just weeks after China's military ...

The B-21 Raider is the first new American bomber aircraft in more than 30 years. Almost every aspect of the program is classified. As evening fell over the Air Force’s Plant 42 in Palmdale ...

In November, new footage of the B-21 circulated on social media, depicting the airframe flying at high altitudes during ongoing tests. The images captured by aviation photographer Jarod Hamilton ...

Pitched as a dual-threat stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider is estimated to cost $692 million per aircraft (including support and spares), the programme is backed by a supportive FY2025 NDAA.

But in the aftermath of contractor peer Lockheed Martin's (US:LMT) poorly received results, this was a reassuring set of annual figures from Northrop after it was hit in 2023 by a $1.56bn (£1.17bn) ...