Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force rolled out the B-21 Raider stealthy strategic bomber at Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, on Dec. 2, some 34 years after the unveiling of its predecessor B-2 and seven years after Northrop won the Long-Range Standoff Bomber contract. The Air Force plans to buy 100 B-21s to replace its B-1s and B-2s, beginning in the mid-2020s.
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