{"id":120783,"date":"2021-03-22T06:24:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T13:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/the-air-force-has-released-the-first-new-images-of-the-b-21-raider-in-nearly-four-years"},"modified":"2021-03-22T06:24:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T13:24:29","slug":"the-air-force-has-released-the-first-new-images-of-the-b-21-raider-in-nearly-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/the-air-force-has-released-the-first-new-images-of-the-b-21-raider-in-nearly-four-years","title":{"rendered":"The Air Force Has Released the First New Images of the B-21 Raider in Nearly Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-air-force-has-released-the-first-new-images-of-the-b-21-raider-in-nearly-four-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mysterious Raider will be the Air Force\u2019s first new bomber in more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman have released the first new image of the B-21 Raider bomber in nearly four years. The image, designed to show the plane in hangars at air bases across the country, shows a few more details of the stealthy bomber. According to aviation experts, the new plane looks like the B-2 bomber\u2014with some key differences.<\/p>\n<p>The three images show the plane sitting in hangars at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota, Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, and Dyess Air Force Base in Texas. Ellsworth and Dyess are currently home to B-1B Lancer bombers, while Whiteman is home to America\u2019s fleet of B-2A Spirit bombers. The B-21 Raider will eventually replace both types.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mysterious Raider will be the Air Force\u2019s first new bomber in more than 30 years. The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman have released the first new image of the B-21 Raider bomber in nearly four years. The image, designed to show the plane in hangars at air bases across the country, shows a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}