The Pentagon’s budget-driven “Bottom Up Review” makes wholesale reductions to the armed forces. Air Force fighter wing equivalents, for example-cut previously from 34 to 26 in the “Base Force” plan-are cut yet again to 20.
B-21 Raider First Flight Now Postponed to 2023
May 20, 2022
The Air Force says the B-21 Raider won't make its first flight until 2023; about a six-month delay from the last official estimates. No reason was given for the delay. While other programs have recently chalked up schedule slips to supply chain and labor shortages, the Air Force has said…