Air Force's new stealth bomber will replace B-1s and B-2s while older B-52s keep flying
by Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times
Feb 13, 2018
2 minutes
The U.S. Air Force plans to phase out its B-1B and B-2 bomber fleets as the new B-21 bomber, currently being built in Palmdale by Northrop Grumman Corp., becomes operational in the mid-2020s.
That would leave the Air Force of the future with the B-21 and the aging B-52 Stratofortress bomber, which first became operational in
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