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Congress wants to restore nukes on conventional B-52 bombers

Congress is laying the groundwork to restore nuclear weapon capabilities on roughly 30 B-52H Stratofortress bombers that had been converted to drop only conventional...

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Flight Testing Of The B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Is On Track

The secretive test campaign is proceeding well, according to the Air Force acquisition chief, and working its way through test objectives. As we often reported,...

US Officials Doubt China’s Stealth Bomber Can Rival American Designs

US intel confident that China’s forthcoming long-range stealth bomber, the Xian H-20, will not match up to American B-2 or B-21 designs. According to a...

Now is not the time to scale back on the B-21 bomber program

In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin made headlines when he hedged about the ultimate...

USAF Confirms Plans For 100 B-21s While Already Looking To The Future

The B-21 Raider is a high-tech nuclear-capable stealth bomber designed with future modernization in mind to ensure the aircraft and technology are able to...

Air Force Secretary Says B-21 Unit Cost Has Decreased After Negotiations With Northrop Grumman

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee that the unit cost of the B-21 Raider bomber shows a decrease in...

US Air Force reports lower B-21 costs after negotiations with Northrop

The Air Force is seeing the unit cost of the B-21 Raider, its next stealth bomber, come down after negotiations with manufacturer Northrop Grumman,...

Congress offers procurement boost for F-35 jets in FY24 spending bill

The U.S. Air Force would receive enough money to buy 51 F-35A fighter jets in fiscal 2024 under the compromise Pentagon spending bill lawmakers...

US Air Force budget request leans toward R&D, trims fighter purchases

The Air Force’s proposed budget for fiscal 2025 would cut procurement of two major fighter programs — the F-35A and F-15EX Eagle II —...

Analysts: Boeing purchase of Spirit could strengthen defense business

Boeing’s potential acquisition of airframe manufacturer Spirit AeroSystems could help stabilize its defense business and give it a stronger hand in bidding on future...

The new B-52: How the Air Force is prepping to fly century-old bombers

BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. — As it idled on the flight line here, a B-52H Stratofortress known as the Red Gremlin II looked...

785 The Boeing Company – Airplane Geeks Podcast

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:26:21 — 39.5MB) Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems continue to dominate the news, along with 737 MAX certification,...

No more ‘must-wins’: Defense firms growing warier of fixed-price deals

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin chief executive Jim Taiclet offered a warning during a quarterly earnings call this week,The government, he said, is putting too...

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