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Atomicfrog

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Maikeru said:
Where do the CCAs come from? Inside the B-21? Just dump them in the sea after use? Because if they come from a land base then what's the point of using a B-21? Either a smaller aircraft can use the same bases as the CCA or such bases are indefensible in which case Raider is coming on its own.
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CCA coming from ground bases with something like mq-25 tankers. All these loyal wingman project are pulling straw in force projection scenario and long range strikes. The same with using F-35.

Using CCA and B-21 stealth/loitering capability to replace NGAD is clearly looking like a patch work anyway... but I cannot see B-21 doing anything else in AA role than guiding a force that will meet the enemy.

If they want to use B-21 like a HQ/flying turret, a crew in a B-21 will have way better loitering time capability than in a short legged fighter. The B-2 for example has a bed, a toilet, and a microwave aboard that help for long mission, don't know about B-21 tho. Yes you can refuel a light fighter but without any means to ease yourself, you cannot scratch a heavy system loitering time.
 
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Great free article on Aviation Week about the fact that the B-21 appears to becoming cheaper. Major achievement for Northrop if they can can continue to execute on this. Speculation on not only more aircraft purchased, but an increased yearly production rate!

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As early cost estimates turn into real prices, a rare phenomenon for a defense acquisition program is becoming clear: The Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider is becoming less expensive.
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And now Northrop executives hope to cash in—not by raising prices, necessarily, although future lots within the five-year window for low-rate initial production remain open for negotiation. Instead, Northrop’s hoped-for reward would be a considerable boost to the Air Force’s deliberately slow production ramp-up, adding potentially dozens of jets to the last three years of the low-rate initial production (LRIP) phase.
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The Defense Department’s deflator formula adjusts that target average procurement unit cost for each aircraft in 2024 dollars to $730 million.
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If that number has not changed, then the Air Force now plans to spend an inflation-adjusted amount of $668 million for the first 21 Raiders instead of $733 million. And the $668 million figure likely includes additional costs such as an initial spares package.
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Atomicfrog

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pipaster said:
The US is planning on building a $435 facility to restart (1986) TNT production in country. Very important as TNT is a castable energetic material. Not certain when production is expected to begin.

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With all the chemical plants catching fire it the past few years, I would not live near TNT production facilities in the US.
 
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tabu

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People don't know much about the new Secretary of Defense that Trump has chosen. Let's give a brief introduction in quotes from this creature:

- Russia is a gas station with missiles, Putin is a monster, and Ukrainians should be given all the missiles they want

- Iran should be bombed back to the Stone Age

- Israel is a holy place for which Americans should fight as for themselves.

It wrote a book, here's the cover of it. Video about Russia and Iran and quotes from the book in comments

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