The U.S. Air Force currently operates three bomber aircraft. After the eventual arrival of the B-21 Raider, two of these—the ...

At Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, the production of B-21 Raider bombers is in full swing. Northrop Grumman's CEO ...

In 1990, the F-117 Nighthawk was the first warplane to use stealth technology. Now the B-21 Raider promises new leaps in ...

Air Force General Anthony J. Cotton recently said he wanted a 220-aircraft bomber fleet. This would mean ordering 140 B-21 ...

Northrop CEO Kathy Warden previously warned investors that the B-21 could lose money at first, before later turning a profit.

Northrop Grumman has blamed higher manufacturing costs for its B-21 Raider stealth bomber for a 49 percent drop in first-quarter profit. This is not the first financial hit from the B-21 ...

Now six of the nation’s stealth bombers, the B-2 Spirits, are on the tarmac at a joint U.K.-U.S. island military base on Diego Garcia. We don’t know what is in each of the two internal weapons ...

In the vast, wind-swept expanse of the Mojave Desert, inside the cavernous hangars of Air Force Plant 42, something ...

reported first-quarter profit that missed analysts’ expectations and cut its earnings forecast for the year as costs mounted for its next-generation B-21 stealth bomber. The shares fell the most ...

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