Northrop Grumman unveils B-21 Raider-inspired Air Force Academy football uniforms while stealth bomber production accelerates
The B-2 Spirit, a central part of the U.S. Air Force’s conventional and strategic strike force, flew over Washington, D.C., on August 22 during the Freedom 250 Grand Prix.
The U.S. Air Force’s B-21 Raider is moving toward its first operational delivery in 2027 with the acquisition program running ahead of schedule, while Northrop Grumman expands the industrial base for higher production.
The U.S. Air Force has disclosed that its B-2 Spirit stealth bomber can carry the AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, adding a previously unannounced maritime-strike role to an aircraft long associated with nuclear and conventional attacks against heavily defended land targets.
Combat Hammer connected F-35A weapons employment with the maintenance and munitions support required to sustain combat operations.
The U.S. Air Force has demonstrated the B-2 Spirit’s expanding maritime-strike role by integrating the stealth bomber with Norwegian F-35 fighters during a live-fire mission against a surface vessel.
Anduril’s YFQ-44A completed a second exercise with the U.S. Air Force Experimental Operations Unit at Creech Air Force Base.
The Alabama Air National Guard’s 187th Fighter Wing tested its ability to generate and sustain F-35A Lightning II combat airpower during Operation Tuskegee Thunder from Aug. 12 to 14.
The U.S. Air Force has completed prototype evaluations of a portable command-and-control system designed to manage Collaborative Combat Aircraft, moving the program toward selection of a C2E integrator.
The U.S. Air Force is seeking to buy Chinese-made DJI drones for counter-UAS training at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, where personnel would use them to test radars, jammers and other defensive systems.
The U.S. Air Force has highlighted the B-2 Spirit’s combat performance and strategic strike role after the 509th Bomb Wing was named U.S. Strategic Command’s top-performing strategic bomber unit of 2025.
Northrop Grumman has highlighted the B-2 Spirit’s position in the U.S. strategic deterrent, describing the aircraft as the nation’s only operational deep-strike nuclear stealth bomber.
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