There was a thread about this plane before, but I'm not reviving that one because its real subject was not the plane itself but a vomit of brain-dead left-wing conspiracist twaddle that any child or not-drug-addled & not-mentally-ill adult could see through.
The B-21's officialy unveiling event was yesterday, Friday December 2. This is the first new military plane to be developed in the era of lots of "artists' renditions" of the thing being circulated before the real thing was actually seen, so most images you can find online now are still just that, having been created and put online before the actual plane was unveiled yesterday. Even some images with newer dates (yesterday & today) are copied & pasted from older sources. Pictures were only allowed from straight ahead of it while it was on the ground (first flight scheduled next year), so you can also eliminate any image that shows a plane in flight or from other angles, for now. So far, it looks like there are really only three photographs, all from the same angle, straight ahead: one in the hangar with normal bright lighting, one in the hangar with backlighting and more upside-down lighting & shadows, and one outside at dawn with the sky beginning to lighten but some stars still visible. They're shown in these articles on yesterday's unveiling event:
https://time.com/6238168/b-21-raider...ary-exclusive/
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Disp...-bomber-fleet/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/polit...rce/index.html
Some websites out there also still have pictures of ye olde B-2 associated with text about the new B-21, so a search for images of the new plane can still yield images of its predecessor, which is generally similar, but they can be told apart:
This only-from-one-angle unveiling didn't come with any more details than before on technical specifications like range/speed/payload/dimensions/electronics.
The B-21's officialy unveiling event was yesterday, Friday December 2. This is the first new military plane to be developed in the era of lots of "artists' renditions" of the thing being circulated before the real thing was actually seen, so most images you can find online now are still just that, having been created and put online before the actual plane was unveiled yesterday. Even some images with newer dates (yesterday & today) are copied & pasted from older sources. Pictures were only allowed from straight ahead of it while it was on the ground (first flight scheduled next year), so you can also eliminate any image that shows a plane in flight or from other angles, for now. So far, it looks like there are really only three photographs, all from the same angle, straight ahead: one in the hangar with normal bright lighting, one in the hangar with backlighting and more upside-down lighting & shadows, and one outside at dawn with the sky beginning to lighten but some stars still visible. They're shown in these articles on yesterday's unveiling event:
https://time.com/6238168/b-21-raider...ary-exclusive/
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Disp...-bomber-fleet/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/polit...rce/index.html
Some websites out there also still have pictures of ye olde B-2 associated with text about the new B-21, so a search for images of the new plane can still yield images of its predecessor, which is generally similar, but they can be told apart:
- B-21 is light gray; B-2 was black. (I'm using past tense not because it's gone but for more verbal distinction between the bits where I'm talking about the two separate planes.) B-21 has the grayness in common with F-22 and F-35 because gray blends in with more backgrounds more easily for visual stealth, but it seems lighter and smoother than them, lacking their darker patches.
- B-21's engine inlets don't bulge above the visual dividing line created by the plane's front edge like B-2's did; they're above the line, but they blend in with the general slope up to the middle and down to the sides. And they're narrower and tapered to the outside instead of close to symmetrical.
- B-21 seems, at least from this angle, to have more belly protrusion below that visual dividing line at the front edge than B-2 had. Or you could say the dividing line is higher on the plane's body. To one extent or another, this could be an illusion from the low camera angle we got so far. It looks as if the engine outlets probably must be flattened to keep them above the line, but we don't have the rear angles to see that yet.
- B-21's front landing gear's door opens to one side instead of straight forward in the middle like B-2's did.
- B-21's front windows have five sides & five corners, and the long lower edge is concave or looks that way from this angle; B-2's were four-sided & four-cornered, essentially being rectangles wrapped around a simple curve, with convex-looking lower edges. Also, B-2's side windows looked like rectangular continuations of the front windows, while B-21's are smaller and more askew from the front windows.
- B-2's "sawtooth" back edge had five points/angles along it, whereas B-21 has... a number we don't know yet because there are no public photographs from such angles. Standard imagination/speculation so far (unless this imagery is based on an official published text description somewhere I haven't seen) has been that B-21 will turn out to have a back edge that comes to only three points/angles, so any image you see with three is meant to represent B-21 but was created without actually seeing it yet.
This only-from-one-angle unveiling didn't come with any more details than before on technical specifications like range/speed/payload/dimensions/electronics.
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