Next Generation Bomber Battle Heats Up
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It looks like Northrop Grumman will face off against a Boeing-Lockheed Martin team to build the next generation bomber. Boeing and Lockheed, which cooperate heavily on the F-22 fighter announced the bomber teaming agreement today. Northrop produced the last Air Force bomber, the B-2.
Writing at Flight International, Stephen Trimble writes about what the teaming agreement might mean for the actual bomber the companies might propose:
The tie-up between Boeing and Lockheed could see the companies pool ideas exemplified by Boeing’s X-45C unmanned combat air system and the Polecat low-observable unmanned aircraft build and tested by Lockheed’s Skunk Works.
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