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USAF Will Know ‘Very Shortly’ Whether B-21 Meets Design and Production Blueprint

USAF Will Know ‘Very Shortly’ Whether B-21 Meets Design and Production Blueprint
Artist rendering of the B-21 Raider stealth bomber (Courtesy: Northrop Grumman)

The U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) is testing one of six Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-21 Raider stealth bombers to see whether the production fits the RCO's design and manufacturing predictions. "We had six bombers on the production line," Randall Walden, the director of the RCO, said at the Air Force Association (AFA) warfare symposium in Orlando, Fla., on March 4. "We actually took one out and pulled it over to do the loads calibration, which is where you…

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