{"id":195986,"date":"2008-06-01T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/01\/northrop-grummans-secret-x-bomber\/"},"modified":"2008-06-01T05:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T10:23:00","slug":"northrop-grummans-secret-x-bomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/01\/northrop-grummans-secret-x-bomber\/","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman&#8217;s Secret X-Bomber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DTI editor Bill Sweetman looks at some contracts floating around the aerospace world, and has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A2f4a1894-3135-4a4f-8514-efa533612bc9\">condluded that Northrop Grumman has been awarded &#8220;a classified Air Force contract to develop a secret bomber prototype&#8221;<\/a>, likely based on the now canceled J-UCAS program, probably based on the X-47B that NG is making for the Navy as a part of the UCAS-D program that succeded the J-UCas:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img240.imageshack.us\/img240\/2170\/ngx47bhz9.jpg\"; width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He has a more detailed article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtbook.com\/nxtbooks\/aw\/dti0608\/index.php?startid=16\">here<\/a> (<em>Requires loading of proprietary Nxtbook reader<\/em>), which indicates that the bomber would have a roughly 2000 mile range with a 14-28K pound bombload, which makes it about 1\/2 the size of the B-2, and he theorizes that there may be some advances in terms of CFD and control systems.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the one question that does not get answered is why we really need this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DTI editor Bill Sweetman looks at some contracts floating around the aerospace world, and has condluded that Northrop Grumman has been awarded &#8220;a classified Air Force contract to develop a secret bomber prototype&#8221;, likely based on the now canceled J-UCAS program, probably based on the X-47B that NG is making for the Navy as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}