The B-21 bomber won’t need a drone escort, thank you very much

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The B-21 bomber won’t need a drone escort, thank you very much
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The Air Force's next-gen stealth bomber will be flying solo. Here's why.

When the new B-21—the Air Force’s next-gen stealth bomber—goes to war, it will do so without a drone escort. The news, broken by, is a sharp reversal from earlier plans that had included developing a drone fighter that could travel alongside the bomber and protect it.

News of the cancellation of the drone escort came at the Royal International Air Tattoo, a massive military air show held in England every July.

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