{"id":30919,"date":"2022-12-03T02:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T20:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30919"},"modified":"2025-04-16T00:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:28:08","slug":"new-b-21-raider-jet-rolled-out-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/new-b-21-raider-jet-rolled-out-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"New B-21 Raider jet rolled out in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Features of B-21 raider:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The B-21 Raider will employ cutting-edge stealth technologies to carry out nuclear missions and long-range bombing.<\/li>\n<li>Each aircraft costing about $2 billion or Rs 1624 Crore to be built.<\/li>\n<li>The B-21 Raider will be a <strong>subsonic aircraft<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Speed:<\/strong> Average of 563 miles per hour.<\/li>\n<li>The B-21 Raider, which takes its name from the 1942 Doolittle Raid over Tokyo, will be slightly smaller than the B-2 to increase its range.<\/li>\n<li>Other changes likely include advanced materials used in coatings to make the bomber harder to detect, new ways to control electronic emissions.<\/li>\n<li>So the bomber could spoof adversary radars and disguise itself as another object, and use of new propulsion technologies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Modernisation:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The bomber is part of the Pentagon&#8217;s efforts to modernise all three legs of its nuclear triad, which includes <strong>silo-launched nuclear ballistic missiles and submarine-launched warheads<\/strong>, as it shifts from the counterterrorism campaigns of recent decades to meet China&#8217;s rapid military modernisation.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S Air Force plans to build 100 that can deploy either nuclear weapons or conventional bombs and can be used with or without a human crew.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) How is B-21 better than B-2?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The new B-21 Raider bears a family resemblance to the B-2 Spirit, but the two bombers will differ substantially in size, and likely in their number of engines and payload. Critically, the B-21 will also be far more advanced in terms of low-observable technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/pentagon-debuts-its-new-stealth-bomber-the-b-21-raider\/article66214501.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The Hindu<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B-21 Raider is America&#8217;s stealth bomber, subsonic aircraft for nuclear missions &#038; long-range bombing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}