{"id":73908,"date":"2017-11-21T17:42:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T01:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/the-u-s-military-is-building-a-fleet-of-star-trek-inspired-shadow-bombers-invisible-to-radar"},"modified":"2017-11-21T17:42:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T01:42:55","slug":"the-u-s-military-is-building-a-fleet-of-star-trek-inspired-shadow-bombers-invisible-to-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/the-u-s-military-is-building-a-fleet-of-star-trek-inspired-shadow-bombers-invisible-to-radar","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Military Is Building a Fleet of Star Trek-Inspired \u2018Shadow\u2019 Bombers Invisible to Radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-u-s-military-is-building-a-fleet-of-star-trek-inspired-shadow-bombers-invisible-to-radar.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon is developing a new fleet of shadow bombers that possibly disappear on radar like those featured in Star Trek movies.<\/p>\n<p>The unit of B-21 stealth bombers, a futuristic combat aircraft, are being created at a secret desert plant in Palmdale, California, after the company Northrop Grumman won the contract for their development two years ago, <em> The Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/edition\/world\/next-generation-star-trek-us-stealth-airforce-are-bat-shaped-bombers-08th3vh5l\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military has sanctioned the development of around 100 of the bat-like bombers for as much as $80 billion. The precise amount remains top secret.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/u-military-building-fleet-star-094709735.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/u-military-building-fleet-star-094709735.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon is developing a new fleet of shadow bombers that possibly disappear on radar like those featured in Star Trek movies. The unit of B-21 stealth bombers, a futuristic combat aircraft, are being created at a secret desert plant in Palmdale, California, after the company Northrop Grumman won the contract for their development two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73908","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}