The US Air Force and major US aerospace and defence group Northrop Grumman jointly unveiled the world’s first sixth-generation jet combat aircraft, the B-21 Raider strategic bomber, late on Friday (South African time). The aircraft is considered sixth generation because, among other things, it employs stealth and ‘information advantage’ technologies with an open information technology architecture. Its information advantage comes from its advanced sensors, data collection and fusion capabilities. The B-21 will be capable of networking to multiple systems, and in all domains (air, sea, land, space, cyber) across the ‘battlespace’. The aircraft has also been designed to be flown either with its crew on board, or remotely, with its crew on the ground.
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