Comments by "verdebusterAP" (@verdebusterAP) on "US Air force just revealed its B-21 Raider bomber" video.

  1. Simple First the B-2 cost 2 billion because procurement was cut from 165 planes to just 21 plane which greatly drove up unit cost Secondly ,the the B-21 is designed too use commercial off-the-shelf, C4ISTAR, and radar technologies. So instead of spending money to develop tech solely for the B-21, they drew it from the existing programs The B-21 engines are an advanced derivative of the F-35 F-135 engines which saves a lot of money The B-2 AN/APQ-181 is unique to it while the B-1B and B-52 are fitted with radars from F-16s and F-18 Just as the B-1 and B-52 have derivatives of the radars from F-16s and F-18 Its likely the B-21 has a derivative of the F-35 APG-81s It likely has the Multifunction Advanced Data Link as well. The B-2 had undergo a lot upgrading to carry conventionally weapons so again, its likely that B-21 already has the stores management system and MIL-STD data buses installed for conventionally They have tech in place already is why and how they are saving
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  2. Its test flight is scheduled for 2023 so your point
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  3. Sorry but it already is China's problem is engines They are still relying on Russian engines while they struggle with their locally made The USAF had 30 years of operating the B-2 to gain invaluable insight for the B-21 China has only operated the Xian H-6
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  4.  @xiaogangdasha  The J-20 is another failure Sec Def statement the B-21 can hold any target at risk is chilling
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  5.  @xiaogangdasha  Lets see J-20 has no gun limited payload and in 10 year time, has got through at least 5 engines
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  6.  @xiaogangdasha  Let see The J-20 has not left the box that China keeps it in while the F-22 and Su-57 have seen real world operations As the PLAAF keeps the J-20 in a tightly sealed box, it does not compare to the others Even at the air show where it was show cased, the routines was tightly choregraphed as the J-20 only did basic moves and rolls No minimum radius turns No slow speeding handle demo Nada even the Su-57 demos show a degree of performance
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  7.  @xiaogangdasha  How exactly is the J-20 supposed to compete with the F-22 or Su-57 when China keeps its in a tightly sealed box If China was serious about the J-20 , they would send overseas like they do with J-10s and J-11 but they wont as the J-20 is sub par at best
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  8.  @xiaogangdasha  India has top tier AWACS ,however their problem is that their missiles quality is piss poor The R-77s hasnt lived up and Astra is dragging ass In order to counter China in a potential engagement, they need a massive improvement with their air to air missiles
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  9. Getting shot down can happy to any aircraft
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  10. Yes but hypersonic weapons can't be recalled once launched Secondly, its called flexibitiy
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  11.  @monitoni7901  What people get wrong about Serbia is that F-117 did not fail What USAF failed was the aircraft supporting the F-117 The EA-6B , F-16CJ and Tornado ECR failed to destroy Serbian defenses Those planes had severe limitations which allowed Serbian defenses to survive The EA-6B had sensors but not the speed. The F-16CJ and Tornado ECR relied on the EA-6B to provide data but they had to get info from AWACS not the EA-6B The AGM-88 could only target the site if it active. Other assets in the area also could not target the sites Now the reason why the US still betting on stealth tech is they learned from Serbia The EA-18G has both sensors and speed but most importantly far more advanced sensors Three Growlers networked together can generate targeting tracks for hostile radio-frequency sources in real time. They trilaterate a target from wide area to a very, very small area. The AGM-88 has been heavily reworked so it can target site even if its cold or moving The Growler has 3 data-links to which it can transmit targeting data direct to other assets without having to go through AWACS Targeting pods are now standard on all strike assets which can visual ID targets from significant ranges allowing to find target much easier Lastly, the F-117 was designed for maximum stealth so it lacked MAWS and RWRs Thanks to AESA low probability of intercept, the F-22 and F-35 has MAWS and RWR that doesnt betray their position The US is still betting on stealth as they understood where they went wrong as for betting on hypersonic weapons Again the US is vastly superior in that Russia's Kinzhal can only be carried by MIG-31 and Tu-22M3M, One missiles on MIG-31 and 4 on the Tu-22M3M China's missiles like Russian are limited 1 to 2 missiles plane The US ARRW is designed so one missile carried F-15E and up 31 missiles on B-1B Russia's Zircon's range is 640 miles while the China' YJ-21 range 300 miles. The LRHW range is over 1700 miles Unlike China and Russia, the US has several programs in work The Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM) USAF for tactical flexibility to employ fighters to hold high-value, time-sensitive targets at risk, The Hypersonic Air-launched OASuW. HALO as carrier based hypersonci asset for the USN for F-35, F-18 and FA/XX So the US is very much ahead of the game
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  12.  @jetli740  And the reason those low tech missiles sites were not destroyed was its not spinning, its fact. NATO SEAD failure to suppress Serbian defenses was major factor I am going to pretend you didnt just use google as source thats hilarous beyond anything
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  13.  @jetli740  Adding a recall system to missile is potential weakness that enemy could exploit
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  14.  @jetli740  The whole point of SEAD is to eliminate the enemy's defenses and the SEAD wasn't up to the task in Serbia That same is happening in Ukraine, Russia's failure to suppress HIMARS has cost them dearly Russia's failure to secure western Ukraine has allowed Ukraine to access to more and more advanced tech and weapons Without western supply, Ukraine would have folded by April Google is as good making up its
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  15.  @ex0duzz  It reveals that design which we can see is vastly improved over the B-2
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  16.  @vice4996  Neither program is ready
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  17. The B-21 is designed to overcome the mistakes by B-2, B-1 and B-52 The key difference is that B-21 uses use commercial off-the-shelf tech, C4ISTAR, and radar technologies Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and aerial reconnaissance along with command and control gear from existing programs The B-2, B-1 and B-52 all uses tech that was specifically designed for it By reusing tech from existing programs, they substantially reduce its cost
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