The B 21 Raider Stealthy, Fast, and Deadly: what we know so far 

When the last B-21 Raider is retired, probably 40 years from now, the only bomber remaining in the Air Force will be the B-52.

Was fishing overnight in a boat out in the middle of lake when what had to be a B-2 passed low overhead during a pitch black moonless night. It was massive, and eerily nearly silent. When I got back home I jumped online and saw there had been an air show in another state where a B-2 had flown. I was nearly dead center between there and the bird's home base. Apparently many other witnesses in the area didn't notice the small aircraft strobes, because they were convinced it was "a UFO."

This is an excellent video that excels in giving detailed information with beautiful, to the point footage.Respect!

Great video as always! Your resources must be extreme! Thanks!

I'm excited to see your upcoming video on the B-21!

Marvelous detail: the rotating refuleing access panel at 7:20. Amazing footage.

Great video on the B-21. Can't wait to see the upcoming B-52 video!!

well narrated and informative video. thank you

The B-52 will definitely outlive all of us. It will be the first bomber to bomb alien bases on Mars lol

Surprise: “More on that later” when I thought I heard all there is to hear about the B-21. This was the start of a very insightful explanation of stealth technology. Super!

I saw a B-2 fly over low and turn above me. It gave me chills and brought tears to my eyes I was so overwhelmed. It was like I was awoken to how far into the future we are from my childhood. It looked like something from Star Wars

Does it have cup-holders? So sick of upgrades that don't include basic amenities available in a 1980 Ford Escort (for a small upcharge).

Can't wait to see the B-21 finally be revealed!!

Wow man you killed it...... Great Job... Love it

Great Video ,very detailed

Dude your videos are like the best informative videos on RU-vid

Great content & well presented. I've just subscribed & look forward to the video on the unveiling of the B21.

I first stood by the SR-71 in 1966 at Edwards. Dad worked at China Lake and we were friends with a lot of test pilots including Bill Dana who flew the X-15. We watched the SR-71 do some fly bys and it was like watching star wars. I always felt privileged to enter the bases and read the sign that said "what you see here, what you hear hear....let it stay here". I never got the chance to see the B-2. A good friend was driving home from a fishing trip up at Kennedy Meadows and was going 90mph in the upper valley when to his right at about 100ft off the deck was a B-1 Lancer, wings spread to go as slow as he could. He could see the pilot as the plane accelerated with full afterburners, wings folding back, and went straight up at the end of the valley over the mountains. "Coolest thing I ever saw".

Excellent work. Bravo !

I've had Dec 2nd marked on my calender since the announcement!!! Can't wait to see this beauty!!

Some very nice footage of some amazing aircraft. Looking forward to the B 21 unveiling!

Great work. Beautiful design

great video - very informative - as always. Love your channel !!!

Bro , you definitely have a gift . I always look forward to your next video and have yet to be disappointed . You are very good at what you do Tog , and I know you'll keep up the great work and these awesome videos . As usual , two enthusiastic thumbs up from this camp bro . 👍👍🇺🇲

Wow, this was incredibly detailed and went into the depth of current stealth tech. Thought I knew everything about stealth aircraft and surprisingly came to know more from your video. Great work and waiting for more.

Excellent and very informative video as always Tog! Looking forward to what you decide to do for the B21 reveal. Whatever you decide to do, I'm here for it!🤘

Informative, consise.

great show! subbed

It's interesting how knowledge builds on itself. From what I've read, the flying-wing design was patented by Hugo Junkers in 1910. Then the Horten brothers developed a flying-wing glider in 1932. In 1945, the brothers developed and flew the first prototype jet engine-powered flying-wing for the German government. Now look how far we've come with this complex work of art!

The Horten brother's legacy lives on.

Great! Thanks for this video tech warfare updates.

Great video

I'm surprised that their was no mention of the Horten Ho 229

Well done TOGington x

Brilliant and Thank You. You read my dreams before CHATGPT did. Subscribed and liked.

I remember when the B2 was unveiled they prohibited the media from photographing the tail section of the engine. I think this must have been some weakness they found in the design. My brother was on the outskirts of the county in which we lived. He said he heard an aircraft approaching but didn't think much of it until he saw it. It was a B2 which had yet to be unveiled. Said it scared the hell out of him because he did know what he had just seen.

I always remember reading that when they were testing the RCA of the have blue that they realised that they were seeing the pole it was placed on and not the aircraft, so they went away and had to redesign the pole to actually get a true RCA.

It's stealthy *because* it's big. Even fairly long wave radar reflects rather than diffracts off the B-2.

Excellent!

I can't wait for it to be unveiled tonight!!!

Just found your channel today! Absolutely amazing coverage man, I appreciate the time and the professionalism you’ve put into your content. Keep up the amazing work! I remember going to an air show as a kid and seeing an F-117 and just being amazed at the size of it, I had never seen military aircraft in real life. Even an F/A-18 seemed exponentially larger than I had imagined and it blew my mind how capable it was. I spent 8 years in the 82nd 1st/504th but was primarily around Blackhawks and CH-47’s or AH-64’s. The few times in country where I was able to get up close to fighter aircraft is one of my favorite memories. They’re fascinating to me and certainly were a welcome addition on the battlefield. You had a feeling of security so to speak when you knew CAS was inbound. To this day I’m still in awe of the skill sets of rotary and fixed wing aircraft pilots, my MOS (11B) doesn’t take a rocket scientist to get into, I mean we put in work out there but as much as the Army gives the Air Force crap I was and will always be in awe of our fighter aircraft and their support crews and pilots. Are the F-22 and F-35 still on the cutting edge? It’s just not something I’m in the know about.

We finally caught up to the HO-229

If you can kindly station 5 of these in Australia it will be much appreciated. Regards your mates down under Cheers

It will allow America to retain the edge in stealth bomber technology, not regain.

Awesome. Wonder if they have an operational squadron yet. B-52, B-1, B-2 and now B-21. That's one hell of a diverse heavy bomber fleet at least for now.

This is the 1000th comment on this video. Congatulations to the author of this channel!

Very excited for the reveal in a week.

I agree the B-52 will out live us. Even when finally put out of service someone somewhere will keep one or 2 in the air long after anyone of us watching this. That along with the A-10 are icons and I love them!

10:50 It's crazy that in a sense we are creating titans of the sky that as you point out will out-live us all. What a beast of an airframe... Was this the one designed with slide-rules right? What a marvelous era for engineering!

What I needed

Can't wait for the reveal!!

I’ve been lucky enough to see the B2 for myself once, it is the most unreal experience watching that preform a fly past, the B21 will be a game changer and fascinating to see when unveiled

Very well made video and lets all appreciate the fact that the US Air Force has accepted that nothing can replace the B-52 and no longer try to find a replacement for it and accept its eternal. As for the B-2. Something tells me well the B-21 fleet grows the B-2 will continue to remain in-service and likely refitted to standard a couple more times before it eventually is retired. Making it closer to its replacement. The BONE however. Yeah we can accept that its reaching its end..

Bold move to put out a B-21 video one week before its unveiling. Run the risk that the video becomes dated by the unveiling. I recall that Testor released a model of the F-117 based on the very deceptive photo that the USAF had released. The model had a wing sweep more like the B-2 than the very raked sweep of the actual F-117.

Excellent video as always. Can’t wait for December 2nd. It’s going to be a big moment. All eyes will be on the US.

I’ll believe they do a full purchase of B21’s when it happens. So far they haven’t kept their intended production numbers on platforms in a long time.

It sure would be cool if the missile truck concept was built into the Raider.

I will wait the dec 2nd! It gonna be magnificent

Can’t wait! Few hours left

Love that model of the B-21. Prefer it over others I’ve seen. Here’s hoping that’s what it looks like

I love being in the Airforce and seeing all the beautiful aircraft around me

The Northrop YB-49 Flying wing was found to be very hard to detect at certain angles by radar, mostly *Edge on* Horten Flying wing design was also hard to detect at again "Certain angles"

Thanks!

I can not wait until the B-21 gets shown but it will more than likely resemble the B-2 very much.

Hi Tog x

B2 is still the best bomber today and its 30 years older than this thing, its going to be epic

Had a dream just 2 weeks ago of this exact aircraft flying just over head and it was so real. No intellect of any airplanes or jets. Then this just shows up randomly in my news feed 👀👀

I lived near Rosamond near Edwards AFB. I have seen it fly by while standing in yard. It really looks like a UFO, and it has a weird blue glow from engine area at night. It’s a really cool plane! I am retired military so I have base access also. Edwards is used as a testing base.

the B - 2 was soooo ahead of it's time pure stealth over performance , but dam even toay i don't know if 90% of the world armies can even pick up, the raider just amazing modernisation and rethinking of that air frame. you don't change a winning team

The B1 and B2 spirit bomber and the Knight hawk are my favourite aircraft they should be used in the transformer franchise as decipticons

I see the b2 fly over my house all the time cant wait to see the b21 fly over next maybe both at the same time also my brother was at the unveiling and said it was pretty intense to see.

Nice video, however, you didn't mention the Horton brothers who invented the flying wing in 1944-45. Michael

apparently, as the world slept. The US has been working...

VERY impressive 👍

Can't wait for this reveal this coming Friday. Gonna be very cool....I hope. 🤞 that it's not a disappointment. You know that the Military Industrial Complex gets a bad name among some people, but what they don't understand is that it is a great job program for highly qualified people who keep us all safer thru these high tech deterrents. I've been a military enthusiast since I was a little kid...probably 6 or 7 years old...I'm 49 now. I used to play with the little green Army Men in their Vietnam Era kit in the late 70s, in ditches and stuff around my neighborhood. We had this pond in our neighborhood where the owner cut a trench in the levee to drain it in like 77 or 78. So in the drainage ditches outside the pond, a lot of sentiment would build up along the bank, and that made for some pretty cool playing areas for Army Men. The trench in the levee also made a good playing area with the dirt mounds along the edge. By the time I was in Junior High in the mid 80s, some of my favorite books were military reference books. Modern Warplanes (c. 1982) was one of my favorites, hands down. It had full color side profiles of every active or recently retired military craft at that time. It included helicopters and large transport and refueling aircraft as well. The most modern aircraft in the book were early model Gen 4 craft...like F-15As, F/A-18s, F-16C, and F-14Ds. But it had everything going back to Gen 2 aircraft. Stuff like MiG-15s and 17s. All those Korean and Vietnam Era craft. But then in the 90s, I got another book that included the YF-22, YF-23, F-117 and B-2. Around this time I also got interested in tanks and other armored vehicles of both the modern era and WWII. Finding good books on those was a little more difficult. But I found a few good pocket reference books on tanks. I've looked around for similar books now and there's just not that much interest in that sort of thing now for some reason. It's almost like military equipment is taboo to talk about. But I feel that having a state of the art military is the greatest form of deterrent possible. As the old saying goes, "in order to secure peace...prepare for war." You'd rather have it, and not need it, than need it and not have it. The problems we ran into during Ops Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedon is that our thin skinned HUMVEES weren't set up for an insurgency type enemy where they'd use IEDs extensively. The military then developed MRAPs, but turns out that they weren't the best for the job either. We're now giving a bunch of them to the Ukrainians because we don't need them. Well anyway, hope that Friday's unveiling goes well, and it inspires people to get with the program again.

Great video, I've had my calendar marked for this reveal since I heard. One thing I always wonder is that they say it won't be in service for a few years but I wonder if that's true? I wonder if that's a smokescreen and they have a bunch ready to go?

The B-52 isn't sexy, but it is important to keep in service due to its unbeatable range and payload.

It will be revealed in december the 2nd right? Will you show us the video? Anyways I have subbed to get notified!

Amazing

If the B-2 is already almost unstoppable, can't imagine how OP the B-21 it's gonna be

Here are some B21 facts guaranteed to be correct: The project will come in over-budget. It will see little actual use. Some defense industry execs will make a bunch of money. Performance will be over-hyped and under-delivered. The contractor will miss deadlines and face no repercussions. It will be exorbitantly expensive to fly(mainly at air shows). The taxpayer will be on the hook for cost overruns.

GRUMANN, ALWAYS ON POINT.

I already have one. I love it.

Should be painted in Vanta black to avoid letting the Chinese take detailed photos.

I'm not sure how relatively sedate flight profile of Raider, reportedly designed as high-altitude only bomber, would benefit from variable cycle engine. In any case, I'd love to see B-2 converted to tankers for Raider.

Well this is exciting.

Do we know if the unveiling is going to be streamed anywhere online?

They did a crap job with the name. They even had a poll. I refuse to believe raider won. This is the Spirits Kid. Wraith, Reaper, ect. Make no bones about it she’s meant to be a more tactical application of the B2 and I’d wager she retains nuclear strike capability. Northrops dream is going modern.

watching the B2 rollout brought me to tears, as jack northrop was given a glimpse of the plane before he died.

Great looking airframe

Can I pre-order? That bird is sweeeet!

I could see a "new F-117" with profile contouring and advanced/improved aerodynamics, perhaps to replace or supplement the F-15E. Funny store, the B-2 helped me pass speech class. I did my final speech on why we needed the B-2.

Imagine if it also had at least 2 air to air weapons for its own defense. The new bomber may be stealthy enough to not be very visible to long wave radar…. So what if you can see it if you can’t lock it, unless you’re going to send fighters after it, but if you can’t even see it….. it’s more like how the general public tends to think of stealth vs reality

Super !!! 😁😄😉👍

I can’t wait to buy one

Looking forward to seeing the Raider "beast" roll out onto the tarmac 👍 hope the Air force put on a good unveiling 🛫

Based on the last Air Force rendering, the B-21 is going to look so crazy. The cockpit glass is full WTF in an awesome way. And it isn't black like the other stealth bombers. It's either a daylight bomber or it's painted anti-flash white or it could be both.

This is a badass platform

It’s just beautiful ❤

I feel like the b1 bomber has a lot of life left in it. But never got any good upgrades