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America’s new B-21 Raider has 4 big secrets China wants to steal
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America’s new B-21 Raider has 4 big secrets that China’s military is desperate to steal, including whether the stealth bomber is capable of unmanned flight.
Rebecca Grant is president of IRIS Independent Research.
First, can the B-21 fly without pilots? Original acquisition documents called for the B-21 bomber to be "capable of manned and unmanned operations." Military drones take the man or woman out to save weight and increase endurance flight time. No one doubts the Air Force pilots can stick it out for long missions. Back in 2001, two B-2 bomber pilots logged a 44-hour mission from Missouri to Afghanistan and back. Bomber pilots train in simulators for 72-hour missions (and you thought the center seat on Southwest Airlines was tough.)
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