B-21 Studies and Reports

Northrop Grumman's B-21 Raider will play a vital role in U.S. national security and strategic deterrence. Read the latest studies and reports about this critical mission.

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Long-Range Strike: Resetting the Balance of Stand-in and Stand-off Forces [The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies] June 2020

Five Priorities for the Air Force’s Future Combat Air Force [Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments] January 2020

Air Force B-21 Raider Long-Range Strike Bomber [Congressional Research Service] November 2019

The Force We Need: Key Factors for Shaping the Air Force for the Future [The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies] March 2019

An Air Force for an Era of Great Power Competition [Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments] March 2019

Building the Future Bomber Force America Needs: The Bomber Re-Vector [The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies] September 2018

Survivability in the Digital Age: The Imperative for Stealth [The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies] August 2017

Beyond the “Bomber:” The New Long-Range Sensor-Shooter Aircraft and US National Security [The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies] July 2017

Higher, Heavier, Farther, and now Undetectable? Bombers: Long-Range Force Projection in the 21st Century [Center for a New American Security] June 2017

US Bomber Force: Sized to Sustain an Asymmetric Advantage for America [The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies] November 2015