{"id":151798,"date":"2022-12-04T03:23:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T09:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/us-unveils-worlds-first-sixth-generation-nuclear-stealth-bomber-b-21-raider"},"modified":"2022-12-04T03:23:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T09:23:13","slug":"us-unveils-worlds-first-sixth-generation-nuclear-stealth-bomber-b-21-raider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/us-unveils-worlds-first-sixth-generation-nuclear-stealth-bomber-b-21-raider","title":{"rendered":"US unveils world\u2019s first sixth generation nuclear stealth bomber, B-21 Raider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-unveils-worlds-first-sixth-generation-nuclear-stealth-bomber-b-21-raider2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United States Air Force unveiled the B-21 Raider, a high-tech stealth bomber that can carry nuclear and conventional weapons and is designed to be able to fly without a crew on board. The fleet is estimated to cost $203 billion to develop, buy and operate over 30 years, according to Bloomberg, with the US planning to acquire at least 100 of the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the features of the warplane are shrouded in mystery, with reports suggesting that it has the potential for an uncrewed flight. A US Air Force spokeswoman said the aircraft was \u201cprovisioned for the possibility, but there has been no decision to fly without a crew\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The first flight by a B-21 is expected to take place next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Air Force unveiled the B-21 Raider, a high-tech stealth bomber that can carry nuclear and conventional weapons and is designed to be able to fly without a crew on board. The fleet is estimated to cost $203 billion to develop, buy and operate over 30 years, according to Bloomberg, with the US [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151798","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}