The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman are working to accelerate the production and the delivery of the B-21 Raider, with the first bomber arriving at Ellsworth next year. The Department of the Air ...

The Air Force is taking a big step forward with the B-21 Raider as it seeks to hasten delivery of the service’s next-generation stealth bomber fleet.

The official target size of the future B-21 Raider fleet remains 100 aircraft, despite an announcement that production of the stealth bomber is expanding, a U.S. Air Force official has confirmed to ...

Northrop Grumman absorbed a steep financial hit on the B-21 Raider program in early 2025, recording hundreds of millions of ...

A second B-21 Raider bomber has flown for the first time in California, the Air Force announced Thursday, a milestone officials say will accelerate testing of America’s first new long-range bomber in ...

Read about how the deal applies $4.5 billion in federal funding to the B-21 Raider program, which has work at Wichita aerospace supplier Spirit Defense.

Extra funding passed in the 2025 “Big Beautiful Bill” could allow Northrop Grumman to increase its annual production of the fifth-generation bomber by around 25 percent.

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AURORA, Colorado —Air Force officials and Northrop Grumman have reached a deal to accelerate B-21 bomber production by 25 percent following months of negotiations, the service and company announced ...

November 3, 2025: The new American heavy bomber, the B-21, is an 81-ton, twin-engine aircraft that can carry nine tons of bombs and missiles. It is 16 meters long with a 40-meter wingspan. B-21s will ...

On December 2, 2022, the U.S. Air Force officially unveiled its new bomber: the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider. Painted in bone white, built in a flying wing design, the B-21 was touted as the world's ...