Stealth Bomber Redux: Not Just An Airplane

Stealth Bomber Redux: Not Just An Airplane

THE SIGNAL

Stealth Bomber Redux: Part 1 Beginnings: Jack Northrop and the Flying-Wing – The following is a multi-part series detailing the origins of the B‑21 Raider stealth bomber from the YB-49 and earlier. This is part one.In the mid-1970s, Northrop (later to become Northrop Grumman) and Lockheed (later to become Lockheed Martin) squared off against each other for a U.S. government contract to build the world’s first operational all-spectrum stealth aircraft. Both companies went to great lengths to usher in the low-observables techno …

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